trouble

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I just messed up my theme, and do not have time to fix it, so for the time being I have switched to another theme, Tranquility white 1.2 by Roy Tanck.

Update: I changed the theme a bit, and like it now better than the old one, so I might just stick with it…

One of the great unknown variables of film making are the labs that process the film negatives. In the old days of film making, only about half of all exposed rolls would ever survive the lab, nowadays most productions go through the processing without a problem.

That said, the very first film I worked on (back in the early 1990s, a black&white silent short drama shot in Checkoslovakia, now Czech Republic) had to be partially re-shot because of some trouble in the lab. And one commercial that involved one of the hugest cruise ships going to the Hardanger Fjord in eastern Norway, filmed on speed boats and a helicopter, was totally ruined in the lab. Luckily they were covered and the project was re-shot 100%, much to the DPs delight, as the weather turned out much nicer.

Worst case

One story we heard in Filmschool was that one lab in London used to employ a blind man as their main lab person. He was very thorough. But the catastrophe hit when one evening the cleaning ladies forgot to switch off the lights…

Anyway, here comes a segment from Der Untergang with altered subtitles:

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 Worse, both my backups turned out to be outdated (even though they were freshly made.)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…