WordPress’s Revenge
WordPress says Click Here for the latest update. So first I backed up all my files, just in case, and then Clicked There. Long story short, the update totally hammered everything and wrecked all the files. After a variety of efforts I finally bit the bullet and spent about 2 & 1/2 hours deleting each file one by one, since there is no Uninstall. Then reinstalled, got the Hello, Brand New User page and then uploaded my backup file. Nothing. Nada.
Finally I threw in the sweat-soaked towel and called my host, and after their efforts to fix it also failed, they re-installed all my files from their last save, which was Jan. 26th.
And there you have it. 5 days worth of posts and comments gone to Internet Heaven…. or possibly that other place, but at least I’m back up, sans upgrade. I did manage to find all of the Lost Posts cached here and there on the Net and re-installed them with their original timestamps, so at least the linkbacks/trackbacks will still work. All of your incredibly erudite comments, are, sadly, gone forever, however.
Unless WordPress comes up with a more reliable system it looks very much like this is going to be my format for now and forever.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:51 am
For a time, last night, I thought the EU thought police had closed you down.
Several bloggers in EU-ville are facing prosecution.
Rough times ahead, 2010 onwards.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:31 am
Yeh, I have recently put absolutely loads of really erudite, witty, and totally brilliant stuff on mine that would have brought me thousands of hits a day by people praising me to the heavens and hailing me as the world’s wisest man but somebody else lost it. Ain’t it a bummer?
What is this wordpress thing? Don’t you create copy on your PC first and upload it?
February 1st, 2008 at 5:32 am
PS Oh, ok, if anyone had lost my stuff it would probably have been ramblings about wasps and stuff.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:18 am
Yesterday I got scary!
Maybe “that other place” is where are gone many historic videos on the f@#%ed Youtube – right now, I missed the magnificent videos of Suzi Quatro (”Glad All Over” on blue-screen TV) and The Slits (talking jokes on the Vortex Club 1977) and even Christiane F (on the “Decoder” German movie) etc etc etc…
I HATE THE HELL NET ARCHIVES ERASERS !!!
February 1st, 2008 at 1:33 pm
At least it wasn’t the terrorists hacking your site. I had that happen twice. What a mess. But I smiled, because it means I’m doing a good job irritating them.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Rasta.
I pulled the following from “Battle for Britain” blogsite, in the comments section. (Jan 27th, 2008)
The commenters were discussing the fact that NuLabour controlled councils in the UK are using software to filter out certain sites.
Your site came up.
This is a copy of the conments. (for some reason I can’t link to it)
“Spent an hour in York City Library. York City Council uses the web filtering service NetPilot. I couldn’t work out how to find out which sites they block, but had a look for
Battle for Britain - blocked
Alex Jones - not blocked
Anti Dhimmi - not blocked
porn - blocked
bukkake - blocked
Islamanazi -blocked
National Front - blocked
BNP - not blocked
Lionheart - not blocked
The Green Arrow - blocked
Liars, Buggers and Thieves - not blocked
Clickwalla - not blocked
Zundelsite - blocked
Michael Hoffman - blocked
Sean Bryson - blocked
Marwen Media - blocked
Stormfront - blocked
Jewish Racism - blocked
Little Green Footballs - not blocked
Somebody with more web savvy than me may be able to work out how some sites are blocked and others aren’t. I’ll have another look when I’m in town”.
As I say repeatedly about this piss-begotten country, democracy, freedoms, went out the window when NuLabour came in. Censorship exists at all levels. Thought police throughout every level.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Oh yeah. I recall exchanging comments about IslamaNazi being blocked by some company, in fact I think that was you who brought it to my attention. A lot of companies are blocking sites that are not business related to their employees. Not much to be done about it as they have a right to do so. They bought the computers and pay for their employees time.
Thanks for looking anyway. A 5 day loss of comments isn’t good but it could be a lot worse, too.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Not just councils. This site used to be blocked at an anonymous place (oh, ok it was Smiths Aerospace) I recently worked at too. Mind you, they also blocked stuff that would not have been out of place in The Daily Mail.
Censorship, except of the very extreme sort that advocates violence or is aimed at the very young, is idiotic, adults do and should make their own choices. The daft thing is that the comments these organisations block as “extreme” is actually moderate compared to the views many express in private.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I don’t argue that. Still, if I had a company and my employees were surfing sex sites and blogs instead of doing their ordering and such, I’d block them too. Most large corporations operate on a low relative profit and have to pay out dividends to stockholders. Every dime saved becomes a dollar earned.
If people wouldn’t screw around on company time, none of this censorship would be happening, but we know how that works.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 am
Rasta.
Sorry if I didn’t make myself clear.
It’s York City Libraries that are blocking your site.
These are PUBLIC libraries, many of them, with dozens of internet computers where the PUBLIC can use them to use the internet.
It is the PUBLIC who are being denied access to your, and many other sites, not council employees.
As far as I am aware, york libraries use JA net, an infrastructure that is dozens of town/cities/schools -wide, covering a vast area.
If the same filters used in York city, are in fact part of J A Net-wide software, then millions of the public are in fact being censored without their knowledge.
York is in the area of “North Yorkshire”
In South Yorkshire, a different network is used for schools/libraries/councils/ - public open admission facilities.
I can confirm that these too have filters on them, but I have necer explored the details.
Remember, these are PUBLIC FUNDED libraries, etc, funded by taxpayers, (local and central), censored without our involvement or knowledge, by publicly funded/employed wankers who have decided that they shall be the arbiters of what we may, or may not, read.
Welcome to the EUSSR
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
Oh.
Yeah. Not good. I bet a lot of anti-Islam sites are blocked over there in PC land. And you’re right, I didn’t get it, I thought you were just talking about businesses.