Whoa… Scary….
Network Geek was reading through my blog and found a bunch of spam on the older comments, so he suggested I upgrade my blog software. I checked with my host, and they didn’t have the latest version either, so I had decided to try to upgrade this thing, all by myself, from the OUTSIDE.
I don’t know if anyone dropped by to find a string of error messages and broken code, but that would be me screwing up my blog by trying to upgrade it all by myself. My heart stopped for a minute, because the past three years of my life are on this monster, and I really, really did not want to lose those memories. So when I opened my browser and saw that line of code where my beautiful little patch of Internet grass used to be, it was like watching my house burn down with all my pictures in it.
I went back to the software site, and actually tried reading the directions this time… and POOF! I’m back!
Backups are for wussies!
*Special thanks to Network Geek: hopefully my Blackberry will stop filling up with spam now!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I live to serve.
No, really, I’m totally in the service industry. At least, that’s how I see infrastructure work. Also? You totally could have e-mailed me and I would have bailed you out, because I’ve screwed up on upgrades several times and pulled the blog out of the fire, so to speak.
And, I hope you activated Akismet, too, ’cause it rocks the spam-stoppage.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
cool, oh I forgot, now it’s “sweet”……
April 30th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Yes, your blog looks as wonderful as ever and it is good to see you are still out there. BTW. I am running Banners from friends’ blogs all next month so if you have one that is 550 pix wide and less that 320 tall, that you would like me to include, please then email me and I will include yours as well.