For the second time this year, I nearly lost my blog. The first time was due to a hard drive failure in a RAID that went horribly wrong, and this evening, it was due to human error when a database was copied the wrong way. Panic ensued as the last backup was August 29th (the disk above is blank and, as an afterthought, is less than helpful), but then Caroline remembered that we made a copy of my site on a notebook to take to Santa Barbara for showing family, this brought me up to September 14th. With the help of Google Cache, Yahoo Cache, and a program called Cache View for looking at the cache on a local hard drive, we have been able to pull nearly everything back together. One story is missing; I had to rewrite descriptions for five photos of the day.

So, my site may take a few more days until everything is massaged back into place, you can bet that backups become more frequent and thorough.