Blog Posts That Never Return

03/02/2005

Wayne Pelletier, Headspace, told a tale of sorry and woe, that is The Nightmare of serious bloggers ... over two years of his blog posts were zapped by a wicked computer glitch never to be seen again.

In tribute to Wayne's lost work, and to all blog posts that have vanished without a trace, a song for my Massachusetts friend who I am sure road the T to his music gigs in B'town. To be sung to the tune of Charlie On The MTA.

Will they ever return, no they'll never return
And their fate is still unlearned
They'll live forever in the wilds of cyberspace
They're the blog posts that never return

Lessons Learned: Back up your posts! Figmentations has resource links to how to back up blog posts. If you're using Typepad read Exporting Your Weblog Content.

 

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That's funny! It was a lesson well learned and a building block of many good web/computer habits. For example, hitting CTRL + S so often I am to the point of walking around with my fingers in that position all day.

Posted by: Wayne on Mar 2, 2005 3:22:23 PM

Thanks, Toby for the reminder. This has been nagging at me, but I hadn't taken the time to figure out how to do it in Typepad. You saved me the trip through Typepad help, and gave us all the swift kick we probably needed to back up our blogs.

Posted by: Susan Getgood on Mar 2, 2005 5:58:41 PM

The unfortunate thing about exporting posts from Typepad is that they come out unformatted. That's better than losing them altogether, but it would be nice if they retained some of their look.

Posted by: Jane on Mar 3, 2005 3:48:18 PM

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