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I Nuked My Blog!!
(Taken from my MySpace blog)
Completely accidental!! That’ll teach me to mess around with MySQL and delete the WRONG database. Luckily, PowWeb (the serving company I go through) keeps three days of backups on their systems. The support I talked to said their techs can re-install the database. Hopefully everything can be restored like it was!
Funny thing about this is, I thought I had all the bases covered. I thought for sure that I had backed up all of the database. Unfortunately, I had only backed up my photo gallery database, not the one for WordPress. Thus, when I tried to delete the photo galley info to reinstall, I had the database for WordPress selected. Poof! My blog reloaded with the words “It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.” AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God my wife stopped me from 1) hyperventilating, 2) swearing in thirty languages and 3) swinging the battleaxe at the computer. The mere thought of losing nearly two years of heartfelt blog entries made me go crosseyed with despair and anger.
Well, here’s hoping for the peeps in tech-support!
Update: The blog is back up. Unfortunately, it’s missing my last two entries. Oh, well… better missing very little than being S.O.L.! Actually, one of them is in draft mode, so that’s ok. I can always re-create the last one, except for the cool comment that was left by a friend! 
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