Been there, done that – but refrained from subjecting the forum to whatever profanities I may or may not (but wanted to) have uttered. Sure can empathize, though. Ouch, that’s gotta hurt. At the risk of sounding condescending, better luck next time 😉
Your host might have a back up?
It’s possible, but unlikely. Their main server had a hardware failure a couple of days ago, and I’ve only been on the temporary server for three days or so. I’ve fired off an email, just in case.
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You could try the google cache. “Bloglines has a special surprise” shows a cache of the article — http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:qgWI6xCpDyEJ:stuffandthings.org/previously/2004/07/bloglines-has-a-special-surprise/+Bloglines+has+a+special+surprise&hl=en
Or the front page is cached here.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:1Cy5-Nl-wuYJ:stuffandthings.org/+&hl=en
Might be a slow and painful way to lookup old articled, but you might be able to find most of your content.
Yup. Google caches everything.
Scott: OH my goodness. I didn’t even think of that! I don’t think my post count has gone over even 40, so that’s a great way. I appreciate the suggestion.
Okay, crisis averted. I managed to cull together most of the posts from Google’s cache. I do appreciate everyone’s kind words and help. Thanks for calming me down. 🙂
You might want to try archive.org too. they keep dated archives of websites.
Feedster caches everything as well.
Archive.org is an excellent resource, but I don’t think they do their cacheing as often as Google does. Google had already cached an entry from a few days ago, whereas archive.org… well, I don’t know. They aren’t cacheing my site at all.
As for feedster, I wish I had thought of that before. See, the problem I had with google cache is that it really screws up the HTML, if you choose to download the “just text” version. This is what I did. And it took a long time to fix, but now the site is back up and running. Still, feedster’s cache interface does not get in the way, and manages to do so without capitalizing every HTML tag. Sigh.
