Welcome to what used to be the millsworks blog.
I had a little “accident” whilst upgrading my WordPress blogging software and as a result the database file that held all my shit together has been rent asunder – thus resulting in the diaspora of my aforementioned shit.
The first thing you always have to do after an unexpected shit diaspora is to wash the cat.
I will do my level best to repair the site as much as I can but there will, no doubt, be significant losses of content. I’m more sad than pissed off about that. 2 years of fairly interesting shit – flushed.
The overall look of the site was due for reconstruction anyway but I’m a big fan of archiving material and never a big fan of pounding my skull against concrete walls in frustration.
We’ll see what can be done.
Thanks for your patience.
cheers
P. S. Tuesday, February 24th, 4:38 pm: Uh – nope – still fucked.
P. P. S. But some great advice from a lot of people. I have high hopes of a solution using a combination of services like archive.org and their amazing WayBack Machine. Tally ho, Sherman!
But it’s all gonna look very different from what it used to be – which is a good thing.
You fucking knob.
Godd luck sorting this shit out.
Aw man…that sucks!
Here’s hoping you get ‘er all sorted out.
Commiserations, friend.
There are no words that can alleviate the loss.
However… WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!?!? NEVER HEAR OF BACK-UP?!?!?
Shit, all those essays and rants shoulda been on CD’s hidden in fire proof vaults… ya big dumb fucktard!!
AH, well.
You fucked your Blog… I continue to fuck the Dog…. it’s all so poetic really.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxfred
Thanks for the good wishes.
And: Yeah – yeah – yeah, Fred. I actually DID backup my database – but I did it wrong – and then when I restored it I did THAT wrong too – and two wrongs don’t make it right – it just makes it poo.
Poetry? I dunno. But I’ll get to this as soon as I start fucking with my own dog. More on that later.
cheers
if you’re desperate for particular entries… you could always look up each archive month in Google’s cache, find the entry link you want like this:
http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/09/25/happy-birthday-glenn-gould/ and then google that link to find the cached entry like this:
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:5aSLVT_kPG4J:www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/09/25/happy-birthday-glenn-gould/+http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2008/09/25/happy-birthday-glenn-gould/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
Hopefully it’s not that dire and you have a better solution…
I’ve been doing that and also at archive.org’s “WayBackMachine”.
There’s a lot out there – it’s just the tedious nature of collecting it, let alone reconstructing it, even within a new layout. 2 years of blather – sheesh! That’s a lot of blather.
I should ask if anyone has any favourites they like to see resurrected and I can focus on those first.
I’m gonna keep updating this page with dribs and drabs as I focus on the newer InTehToobs site and once that’s launched I can put more effort into scraping up this dog’s breakfast.
cheers
oooooh the wayback machine is a waay better idea. Good call
This is supposed to be an automated way to do it…
http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/new.html
zen captcha: lack element
Millz,
First, “fuck me”, this is horrible. Second, the automated fetchie webbie thingie is cool. Almost worth destroying your blog to find out about it eh? No? Yeah, of course not. That is just the sort of lame thing people say to make someone feel better who is hopelessly boogered. Usually works for five seconds.
Sorry I was not even around for the cataclysm. I have been yelling at my internet service for going down like a 5 dollar hooker at the Holland Tunnel. Surprisingly yelling at a modem has no effect. Heartless bastard machine.
Oh, here is a stupid idea. Anyone ever try putting together the random two word crap reCaptcha comes up with as a form of automated expression? I got “delica-meanings” this time. Nice.
Sorry about the blog. I liked it. It was like a warm fuzzy blanket I grew to love over years that the cat has now gone sick on one too many times. Fuzzy blanket, we hardly knew yee.
I like yelling at machines. It doesn’t do any good – but, of course, yelling at humans and animals doesn’t do any good either – but it does release the tension that builds when you’ve arrived at the crystalline moment of realization known as: “Aw, fuck!”
In the this case the culprit was me – my fault, my bad, my mistake, my dumbasswipefucktardbullshitpinhead moment. And, yes, I yelled at myself too. That gets funny – when viewed from the outside – because it becomes a true Basil Fawlty tableaux with the fist clenched before one’s own face.
As for the reCaptcha lines – we’ve been calling them Zen Captchas here for a while now (you don’t really read any of this do you, you just scan th pictures and move on, I can tell) and it’s remarkably consistent in being able to define the moment of expression in the comments. How does it do that? Yes, they deserve to be collected on their own site – like an aggregation of Tweets on any given subject – and I wonder if there is an API for deriving and collecting that info from the reCaptcha folks? I’ll leave that to someone else to pursue since I’m very busy these days trashing my own content, thank you very much.
Cheers.