Kyle Berg

Somehow I found a way to do it. Sigh. Last Friday I was setting up a separate blog for my photography Web site. As I was doing that, I deleted what I thought were some old, out of place files. I didn’t realize that I was actually deleting my entire blog. This was due to a restructuring of the files that I had done earlier in the year with my Web host. I got a sick feeling in my stomach when I realized what had happened. I emailed the hosting company’s outstanding technical support and they restored my files for a fee of $75. Paying that much frustrated me, but it was preferrable to losing everything I had written over the last year or more. But even with the files restored, the blog was still broken. Yesterday afternoon I figured out that my writings were stored somewhere else on their servers and not within the files they had restored. This scared me a little and I thought maybe they had been lost permanently. I emailed technical support again and, fortunately, they restored the blog this morning. I’m missing some writing from July through September, but I can get over that–especially since I haven’t written much this summer. Some pictures will have to be restored, but I’m grateful to have my writings from Argentina. Needless to say, I have installed a backup solution and now have it set up to email me a backup file once a day. I look forward to getting back into writing, having a fresh mind, and being able to think again. I’ve been so tired the last few months and it will be nice to be thought provoking and maybe even a little witty at some point in the future.