Groundhog Day
I switched on the computer this afternoon to find that my site had reverted to its state before the weekend started. Egad! I believe this is because the server on which it resides was falling apart, and the host "migrated" us to a new one. In the process, a weekend's worth of stuff was lost.
Nice Week is definitely over.
By 3:00, I had the main entries back up, but the comments are still missing. I'll do what I can to get those back up this evening. Meanwhile, comments on the last several posts will be turned off temporarily.
UPDATE, 5:02 p.m.: Comments are now functional on all posts, but a few comments on older posts must still be restored. If you see anything that's amiss on this site (from a technical standpoint, that is), please send me an e-mail message. Thanks for your patience, everybody.
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Comments (9)
Maybe the Mayor's office is trying to shut you down!
Posted by Alice | February 27, 2006 2:02 PM
I doubt it. For them that would take two years and cost $100 million.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 27, 2006 2:17 PM
Lost, lost? Or just "gotta go find it" lost? I wonder if it yet resides in the cache of my home computer. I took a gander this morning, or maybe it was yesterday, and saw new stuff, and then today it was absent when I checked on my work computer.
Posted by Jud | February 27, 2006 2:29 PM
Don't mess with Mr. MicroSoft.
Hmmm... I wonder how they decided on that name?
Posted by godfry | February 27, 2006 2:42 PM
If the mayor or anyone else in city hall asked their crack IT department to shut down Jack's blog, two months from now Portland's water bills would be double billing anyone who's name was Jack....but the blog would be safe.
Posted by Charlie in Gresham | February 27, 2006 2:52 PM
See, Swimmer, it wasn't my funky ol' computer set-up at all.
It was just that Jack's server had suddenly been acquired by Vulcan Investments.
Jack... I can now see the original stories, but there are no comments. And, it wouldn't allow me to post a new comment.
I suspect dredging is still in process. Looking for remains.
Posted by godfry | February 27, 2006 3:14 PM
I'm going to try to get the existing comments back up before allowing new ones, on at least the last few posts. They're not lost, just a pain to get to.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 27, 2006 3:18 PM
...how's that whole site migration process coming along, anyway...?
(please tell me this wasn't the *new* host who made this kind of boneheaded move...)
Posted by Betsy | February 27, 2006 4:11 PM
Actually, no, the good news is that the old host was sold, and the buyer actually seems to know what it's doing!
Maybe I won't need to migrate to my new host after all. Perhaps I can use all that disk space I bought for backups!
Posted by Jack Bog | February 27, 2006 4:37 PM