“Hi-
I have no idea when it vanished, but one of my posts is missing.” Lisa/Baffled WordPress User/May 04, 2012 7:38 p.m.
“Your blog has been restored as requested. Please let us know if you need any further assistance!” Macmanx/Happiness Engineer-Wordpress/May 06, 2012 1:52 a.m.
What? But why?!!!
So last Thursday evening, I stayed in a small hostal in town so that I could easily catch an early-morning bus to Manta. (Ecuador) Because my internet connection at the house is painfully sluggish, I looked forward to checking into the hostal and catching up via their much-faster wi-fi options.
She doesn’t think she’s beautiful! What do you think?
I awakened early, ventured out and greeted the early birds in town, grabbed a few items to break my fast, then returned to the hostal and checked out. The bus ride went well, the museum show director and I coordinated last-minute details for the show, and that evening I worked on images for the printer and tossed around ideas for the press release. We needed a few testimonials, and I thought of Munchow’s comment about the zeebra rocks on the Birding Around post.
I did a quick ‘search’ to pull up the comment, but whoa caballo – Birding Around seemed to be missing. Wonder why? There was no trace of it, so I pulled up the post that was sent to my inbox and followed the prompt back to the website. I smirked and waited to read the post.Not found? Wait a minute! But why?
This link to WordPress’s troubleshooting thread tells the rest of the story: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/lost-post-8?replies=22#post-879287
Thank you Wordpress heroes for restoring Birding Around, Quinouli and Quinoa-Spinach-Hibiscus Tabouleh! :)) 🙂 :))
An all-day ‘windows’ computer scan found nothing suspicious; Spybot- nothing. Ccleaner is a routine scan several times each day. All intensive antivirus program scans produced no red flags or quarantines.
So, fellow bloggers; have you checked your old posts recently? I remain baffled as to how this happened, but wanted to warn others to beware of those dragons that are waiting in the shadows!
Images copyright – Lisa Brunetti
Zeebra Designs & Destinations 
Glad they got it straightened out! The internet is definitely quirky!
Si! There are some dark people in the world. i guess they do things like that just to show that they can. z
They really need another hobby. Probably serial rapists or serial killers with no guts. hahahaha!
This is quite astonishing. I guess we all need to back up our blogs if we want to keep them as future references. But I am glad you – or wordpress – were able to restore the lost posts at least. I just hope it wasn’t my comment that unconsciously initiated the tragedy… (but I am happy my comments lead to some new ideas for your show).
You are so right! Save a copy of each post, as it’s so difficult to replicate from memory. Keeping an inventory of the posts is important too, as I don’t look back often to see how many are in archives. It’s easy to lose a child or two unless there’s a system of checks and balances!
I was looking for your comment about the painted rocks – the simplest is sometimes the mark of great art.. so may i have your permission to use that quote?
as always, thanks!
z
I’m going to save my previous posts and start saving future ones. It’s good advice. Who knows? Maybe a book will be fashioned out of them. I enjoy your blog Z…you write crisp and clear and congrats on getting that recent blogger award too.. My blog has been up since November 2011, with weekly posts and it reached a milestone a couple days ago with a page hit count of 2000. I’ve been finding Google Analytics is a really helpful tool for monitoring in all these diverse and different ways what kind of traffic I’m getting. You made what happened with your blog into an interesting story. It was fun to read.
thank you so much for your kind comment; i found this in the spam filter and it is now ‘unspammed’.. glad all is going well for you and your blog! after 100% of my attention thrown into preparation for the exhibition, i am now finding my way back to cyberspace. it will take another week before i’ve waded through photos and find a way to share the endless great stories of the past few months! more soon, z
Hi again! Just want to say I have returned to Norway, where I found a package from you with to zebra designed stones. I was thrill and just love them. They will get a prominent place in my living room for display. Thank you so very much for the lovely present. I hope everything is well with you.
That’s great that the z-rocks have a new home and are well loved!
The opening reception is tomorrow, so today is ‘full throttle! More soon, Z
whoa caballo – I would not manage a single post,
if I had to suffer under such travel conditions!
respect, Lisa, you have good nerves!
you are too funny! whoa caballo!!!!
caballo – you need a portable hard drive for storage connected via USB, I have one for back ups
si.. i had/have one that worked will with an old hp, and the new one won’t read /connect to the hard drive! the burro (mini laptop) doesn’t have enough kick to boot it up! i’ll hobble along and hope to find a way to get the external working again! thanks for your suggestion! z