Good question.
You may remember there was a blog here called Fevered Mutterings (v3), packed to the rafters with wibblings. Well, yesterday I realised I hadn’t archived it properly. So I went into my webspace to do just that.
It involved moving files around into one folder, so I could export that folder onto my laptop for archiving. When I did so, Wordpress seems to have automatically tried to “fix” my blog – which involved installing blank versions of my content files over the top of them. In other words: it’s all gone. Years of it.
There’ll be a lot of broken links out there. Blimey.
I know, yes, absolutely, I should have done this and I should have done that. There’s a way of exporting all your work as an .xml file. Yes, I’m aware. But I had no idea that this ‘live’ webspace would try to correct itself while I was working in it – otherwise I would have been around forty thousand times more careful. I would probably have left well alone until I had memory sticks bulging with every scrap of writing.
But I didn’t and I don’t, and now it’s all gone.
Contrary to what you might think…no, I’m not in the depths of a whisky bottle right now. I was archiving the site because I wanted to reboot it, so change were already in the air. And I’m not too precious about most of the writing I’ve done for fun. If I wrote it, it’s still in my head somewhere, so it’s a chance to write some of my favorite posts for the second time. And it’s a chance to start as I meant to go on from the start last time – if that’s not too tortuous a sentence.
So, welcome to Fevered Mutterings version 4: less bugs, more stuff, and far more stable. You’ll see.
Image: djking
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I do wish you'd stop changing, Mikeachoo. It's terribly unsettling. (Says the girl who's about to up sticks and move to the other side of the world …)
Hehehe. Welcome Mike v4 and all who sail in her. Him. Whatever.
That's such a Mike thing to do.
Not to worry – thanks to Google's page-caching and my historical RSS feeds, I've managed to get back everything I've written in here since August 2008.
Sorry, Katja. It's just that sometimes I get bored at how awesome I am, and so I do something ironically dim-witted to provide a contrast that further underlines my awesomeness. This is exactly what happened here.
Marcus – see my above response. Thank you.
When are you picking up your sticks and gallivanting away, Lady K?
I'm gallivanting as far as Winchester for the month of July, and then hoping to go rather further afield in September sort of time – although I haven't actually got that organised as yet. I do have someone champing at the bit to take over my flat, though, so I should probably go sooner rather than later.
Oh blimey. I've just realised this comment plugin uses "Replies". Stupidity doth be the sword I wield (lopping my own extremities off).
September, eh? Enough time for me to gallivant Londonwards for a farewell-for-now visit, then. Good show.
In addition, you can add a little program that will email you a backup of your blog every week. Try it. Then you'd have time to have a pint instead of hunting up "Way Back".