Been off the air for awhile as we suffered through a major hard drive crash. I’ve never had a drive crash as hard as this one, but it was pretty old. I can’t get any machine to mount it, and all recovery efforts up to this point have been futile. I have a few things left to try (including some software I’m in the process of obtaining from my brother-in-law), but I don’t have much hope.
And to make matters worse, it wasn’t until the hard drive failed that I realized my backup wasn’t working properly. I really thought I had lost everything, but I found a few older backups that I had made from last year. I managed to recover all of my blog posts made from May 2005 though the present thanks to the wonders of xml and bloglines. Hooray for caching!
I did lose some photos unfortunately which is what really hurts the most. I lost some killer pictures of Monica and me from our trip to Epcot. Oh well. I also undid alot of work that my Mom had done on her site that she will now have to redo. Sorry, Mom. 🙁
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks putting the site back together and even redesigned things a bit. I really like the all-css menu that we’re sporting now. Things are still being tweaked and added here and there, but we’re mostly all back together now.
And yes, everything is backed up now.