Don’t ask me what happened. It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma revealed as a riddle. The long and short of it is that the company that hosted this magnificent site vanished into thin air taking with it the site, the pictures, the email, everything. All gone.
That was depressing. But just another blow in what’s been a relatively horrible September. Which is a pity, because I really like September.
However, I had migrated the site to new authoring software in August and had, at that time, made a backup of all the posts back to the beginning of time. And most email had been downloaded to the various PCs I sit at each and every day. And, best of all, because I developed for the new authoring software on a local PC I had a local copy of the various templates, scripts and plugins required to make the pretty.
Unhappily, I lost a month or so of occasional posts. I have to remember all the movies I saw since August 14. I lost all the images that had accumulated over time – most of which are replaceable if I choose to take the time to dig them up. I lost some email. Worst of all, I damned near lost the rights to www.messofthedamned.org
But all comes right in the end. New host, new times. It’ll take some getting used to but after sleepless nights since Labor Day trying to figure out the ins and outs of the internet and the fly-by-night web hosting world we’re back.
And we’re the same as ever.
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