Well, it took just over a month from the Great Server Crash of 2006, but with a lot of help from my friends, we have now restored pretty much every word that I have written on this blog since its inception in July 2002. The complete archives are here. In a sense, they are a net improvement, in that before the crash wrecked everything, I still had quite a few posts left over from my old Blogspot days that I had never fully imported into the current blog. That's fixed now.

All that's missing now (as far as I can tell) are comments that readers left between July 3 and August 30 of this year. I think I have them all, but getting them re-posted will take some time. Once they're back up, they'll never look exactly "right" -- due to the limitations of the blogging program, and of the backup files I managed to salvage, there appears to be no way to date-stamp them 100 percent properly, or to give each old comment its own identity, the way my new software does. But at least we'll get the comments all restored -- here's an example of how the affected posts will look. In the end, a few comments will probably be omitted, but not intentionally.

Putting this beast back together has been a big project, and I'm sure many will wonder whether it is worth the effort. But to me, obviously, it is.