About a week ago I had such a head of blog steam up, you could almost hear the rivets popping. But I dillied a little with the colours, dallied a little with the Permalinks, and pretty soon I broke the blog. The archives vanished and the ‘previous posts’ and next day the page itself vanished and although this is a young blog and contains not very much of any worth I am a writer, I will die rather than lose a single word. (I will discard thousands, but they deserve it.) So I dived into the database and the Help! files and everything I did made the situation worse, if you can make nothing worse.
I found, however, that the blog posts were all still there in the dbase. So I set up a second blog, with the idea of importing posts into that. This scheme failed because I didn’t know how to import posts. At that point I contacted the amazing Rentacoder, where you can hire people to fix your dumb tinkerings. I had to wait a couple of days while Rentacoder checked my credit.
Unable to wait, I started to reverse-engineer my mistakes. Tracking back, looking at the cyber-wreckage strewn around I began to understand what broke a little better. So now I have fixed my blog. So now Rentacoder is going to come back and say, it all checks out, let’s get Ibrahim of Egypt on the job and I have to disappoint these good people.
Sigh.