As regular readers will note, something has happened to this blog.

The previous company decided to migrate to new servers. They didn’t tell me. After it went down, I found a post explaining that all accounts would be deleted and we should take backups of our data. This was on some forum somewhere.

I didn’t. I was doing it quite regularly and meant to keep doing it but I didn’t. I have found a file which seems to be everything up to the end of February and I can recreate some of the later posts from archived pages on the web (but won’t be able to recreate the comments) but it won’t be complete.

It is a little annoying. But it’s not the end of the world.

And some of the comments made:

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1. Gail says:
5 May, 2011 at 2:59 pm (Edit)
Hi Andy-
hanging in there with you through the change. No matter what!!
Love you
Gail
peace…..
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o admin says:
6 May, 2011 at 8:01 am (Edit)
Hi Gail. Thanks. I’m doing my best to get as much as I can back.
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2. TSM says:
5 May, 2011 at 4:52 pm (Edit)
I know, I was gutted when I came to look at the blog and saw 404s and then stuff about database errors. Did think about trying to let you know via Twitter or e-mail, but the last posts I read sounded like you were on holiday so decided not to bug you! Really annoying when hosting companies change stuff on you without letting you know other than via forums you don’t frequent!
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o admin says:
6 May, 2011 at 8:15 am (Edit)
Thanks TSM. Yes, I was on holiday but it was only a few days. Ah well, such is life. It’s one of the penalities with having to use free hosting companies but, really, I should know better and should be backing up at least once a week! Next time, I promise myself, I WILL backup regularly LOL.
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3. TSM says:
6 May, 2011 at 9:28 pm (Edit)
Do you self host WordPress? If you do, there is a backup plugin for WordPress. You can automate it to e-mail you the backup in a zip file at timed intervals.
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o admin says:
7 May, 2011 at 12:44 pm (Edit)
Yes, I do. thanks for the tip. I’ll have a look.
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4. Lola says:
10 May, 2011 at 9:58 am (Edit)
It’s not the end of the world but I DO miss your blog!
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o admin says:
11 May, 2011 at 2:14 am (Edit)
Sorry, Lola. This new version of WordPress has new settings and I didn’t see your comment. I miss it too. I must get it back and running this week!
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5. Lola says:
11 May, 2011 at 2:15 pm (Edit)
no problem… just come back soon, please

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o admin says:
11 May, 2011 at 4:22 pm (Edit)
I will. As soon as I can. I NEED to write some posts!
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