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I was going back through some of my old entries, and as June is rapidly approaching, bringing with it the first anniversary of Michael Bartosh's death, I decided to re-read the article I had written about that, and more importantly, the comments.
As a bit of backstory, not long ago, I had some rather severe corruption in the BDB files that MovableType was using, and decided to move it all to MySQL. I lost a lot of comments.
Including every comment in the article on Michael's death.
I have not adequate profanity for what I am feeling about this. The problem is, every backup I had of the site had this corruption, because a) it was rather subtle at first, and by the time i realized what was up the damage had been done, and b) at best, I only keep a 30-60day backup of the site. A year - old archive? No way.
There's an irony in this, several, especially considering the timing between Michael's death and this year's WWDC keynote. But that doesn't make the comments come back, and out of every article I've written on this site, (416 including this one, if you're counting), this was the only one with comments that I should have done more to preserve.
To everyone who had left such wonderful comments, I'm so sorry. There's little else I can say.
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Posted by John C. Welch at 07:58 | Permalink
Comments
But Bartab would think this situation was funny, and laugh at you. ;)
--chuck
Posted by: chuck goolsbee | May 24, 2007 9:06 AM
I wish I could be the one to say "Oh, you mean these comments?" and them paste-dump them all from an archive I made last year, but alas, that is not the case.
Even the Wayback Machine (pops) falls a month short.
Posted by: pmbuko | May 24, 2007 9:40 AM
Bartab would be laughing rather loudly at this, and then laughing further at me for using BDB at all :-P
Posted by: John C. Welch | May 24, 2007 9:58 AM
I love it...they have archives back to 2003, yet half of 2006 is gone. Yeesh.
Posted by: John C. Welch | May 24, 2007 9:59 AM
Buko, it just occurred to me what you attempted to do, even though it didn't work out, and well, thanks.
Posted by: John C. Welch | May 25, 2007 6:58 AM
You seem a decent fellow...
Posted by: pmbuko | May 25, 2007 8:15 AM
Exalead cached a copy. I used that as my URL for this comment. If they've updated their caches, send me an email. I just saved a copy off from there.
Posted by: petard | May 25, 2007 3:34 PM
Oops. Gave you the cache URL I used to save the page off, not the one you'll need to access the page. Look here. And send me an email if the comments have disappeared from the cache for some reason. I saved them locally and can send them to you.
Posted by: petard | May 25, 2007 7:43 PM
Petard, thank you so very much!
We ever meet, I owe you a beer.
Posted by: John C. Welch | May 25, 2007 11:06 PM
