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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
©2003-until I'm fucking dead and then some. you steal my shit, and I will fuck with you like you were a lonely shepherd's slowest sheep.
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