Rio to New York in 6 Months

I logged into my blog today to show Kelly the last few posts and I was gutted to say the least that all my posts from the USA were missing. Here is the statement that I read on the website.

“Maybe you noticed that your blog is missing posts dating back to August 17th? Or that your blog ain’t here anymore. Well, after doing this for 3+ years we have had a series of server errors and the database that was storing all the blog entries was wiped clean. The most recent back-up that we’ve been able to restore is from August 17th. All our daily back-ups between August 17th and now are missing for the moment.

We are still working on finding a more recent back-up. If we do not find it, I am not sure if there is anything we can do. We are truly sorry about this.

To look for your blog posts you can search google for them. Paste http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:blogs.bootsnall.com/XXXX/ into a web browser, where XXXX is your blogname. You should see most (if not all) of your entries listed and cached. You can copy and paste the text into a new entry and back-date it.”

What a nightmare !!!!

At first I could only see the front page on the blog when using the method above but after posting a question on the bootsnall messageboard I have been able to find the google cache of all the missing posts except one. Thank the little 6 month old baby Jesus for “Google”. (Has anyone watched “Talladega Nights”?)

We are staying at a holiday inn in Philidelphia that has free internet so I will probably re add the posts tonight.

James