{"id":63,"date":"2002-10-30T06:28:36","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2002-10-30T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2002-10-30T06:28:36","slug":"my-own-worst-fumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"My Own Worst Fumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was deleting some &#8216;appropriate&#8217; guestbook entries the superhack SQL way, when <b>I accidentally deleted all my posts<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazycoder.com\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Joey the Crazycoder<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o12.org\/spurious\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Paul of 012 Spurious<\/b><\/a> would be laughing at me now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www24.brinkster.com\/mdredz\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>DJCS<\/b><\/a>, would you know how to save my MDB predicament? I&#8217;m sorry to all the frequent visitors, especially the posters like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickchick.net\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Brickchick<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/yunnermeier\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>yunnermeier<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www12.brinkster.com\/dide\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Dide<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/caryna.blogspot.com\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Caryna<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/freak\/shadyet\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>PY<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n, <a href=\"http:\/\/www24.brinkster.com\/mdredz\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>DJ Phuturecybersonique<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lionelsden.iwarp.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Lionel<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subsushi.com\/sanityhills\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Yi Jian<\/b><\/a> and <b>Zebra<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickchick.net\/\" target=\"_BLANK\"><b>Brickchick<\/b><\/a>, I&#8217;m feeling almost the same pain that Greymatter&#8217;s reinstallation gave you. This bites, man. Like how I felt when I lost my old handphone and most importantly the numbers on it. All those newly acquired numbers of the opposite sex! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t panic. Fine, I didn&#8217;t. Luckily I had an ancient mirror of the site, which had my posts until the 18th of August 2002. About 2 and a half months from the point of writing this gone!<\/p>\n<p>God bless Google&#8217;s cache, which had my blog&#8230; until the 28th of August 2002. Sigh. When I was trying to restore whatever posts I could find, I wished Google wasn&#8217;t crawling my site at that moment (but if it crawled it 2 days ago it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad!)<\/p>\n<p>I already was having a bad day. Dang.<\/p>\n<p>I lost a lot of classics, like the one about MUTLIMEDIA and the one about StickyPics. Ultimately, my greatest loss would be <b>The Dot Masterplan<\/b>. Long, looong ones. Hopefully my house PC has something in its cache. Hopefully I can still find my source text files.<\/p>\n<p>I posted a lot of filler for comments, too. The guestbook&#8217;s out of order, too! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><b>How can you help?<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been to my site before, <b>don&#8217;t<\/b> check the older posts yet. Please please help me restore my entries! (Desperate plea, I know&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>In Internet Explorer, click <b>File<\/b> then choose <b>Work Offline<\/b>. Click on my older posts link down there. If Internet Explorer asks you to connect, nevermind &#8211; your computer can&#8217;t help me. If not, wait for the page to load. Click <b>View<\/b> then <b>Source<\/b>. Notepad should open. Copy the whole text into an email and send it to <a href=\"mailto:albnok@hotmail.com\"><b>me!<\/b><\/a> Thank you sooo much. I don&#8217;t know what I could bribe whoever helps me out, but rest assured I will assure a fine reward. =]<\/p>\n<p>Double the reward would be given if you can get the page older than that and send it to me, too! =]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was deleting some &#8216;appropriate&#8217; guestbook entries the superhack SQL way, when I accidentally deleted all my posts! Joey the Crazycoder and Paul of 012 Spurious would be laughing at me now. DJCS, would you know how to save my MDB predicament? I&#8217;m sorry to all the frequent visitors, especially the posters like Brickchick, yunnermeier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}