Timing is everything (or what the heck?)

This blog was destroyed and deleted last Friday. There had been an error in loading the program that no one could have predicted, and therefore avoided. The whole wordpress program was working out of a trash can file. POOF!

That could have been less disastrous if it weren’t that the site hosts did a backup before restoring the deleted file. They back up OVER the previous backup. POOF!

I am rebuilding using cached pages from Yahoo! and Google, for which I am very grateful. Unfortunately, all the comments, which are my favorite part of the blog, are gone forever, because they crawl and preserve the pages and not the things behind them. POOF!

Today I can be a bit lighthearted about this, because a gentleman in Cornwall, UK has been working to get it all installed and working again. He deserves a post of his own, for sure, because without Rich, this whole blog would still be POOF!
Over the next few days links and blogrolls and categories will reappear, and if you feel like rethinking and re-commenting, even that can get closer to normal.

Stick with me, because you are very important to me and without you, I would POOF! off into the ether.