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I just updated my blog to the newest WordPress, and somehow the database got corrupted in the process. Worse, both my backups turned out to be outdated (even though they were freshly made.)

Result? All posts between July and now are magically gone.

Well, I am working on it, so keep your fingers crossed.

Update: Nope, all posts/comments/edits of the last 3 months are gone. I do have copies of all posts, but then I have to copy/paste each one by one. So there will be some time before this blog is fully functional again.

What do we learn from this? Nothing I didn’t already know: backup, backup, backup. And then: check the freshness of your backup - just because it was created today, does not automatically mean that the data within is fresher than 3 months old…

Anyway, for now I am back on WordPress 2.1 After some additional struggling, this Blog is now 2.3. Still some quirks; Tag Warrior replacement is giving some headaches – how does one display the tags in the loop? And why did the searchbar disappear? We shall find out at a later time…

Gems from the Web:

• The Blog Population Grows & Grows & Grows - Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and they’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day. WOW!
• What’s The 411 — Ask Google - Google has introduced it’s FREE information service GOOG-411, currently as experimental. It?s a voice activated service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411. You lucky Americans…
  
• Learn to use Google Apps in your organization - Channel on YouTube has posted a tutorial on how to increase productivity by adopting Google Apps for your business or organization. via Doug Karr.