Ugly In So Many Ways

Yes Leoville is looking pretty awful. I'm reconstructing it from scratch. Fortunately, as you can see, all the posts survived the apocalyptic demise of my server's RAID 5 Array. Unfortunately, none of the Wordpress customizations did. So I'm downloading the plug-ins, restoring the template, hacking the CSS, and desperately trying to remember the changes I made. All the comments are safe with Disqus and will return when I turn on the Disqus plug-in. (Done. Thanks, Disqus!) Unfortunately, the image directory was not saved. That means all the attached images will be blank. I will be able to recreate some of them from my local archives, but most are lost forever. -sigh- All of this is because I was too cheap to buy the many gigabytes of storage required to backup that data. It was a false economy. I've purchased 200GB of storage from my host, Softlayer, at the extortionate rate of $180/month. (That's twice what a hard drive of that size would cost outright - 2400% more per year - and I thought the cell phone companies were bad.) And I'll be setting up rsync and S3 for a secondary backup, as well. Meanwhile it's back to the depressing and very time consuming work of fixing this place up again. Now I know, in a very small way, how it must feel to survive a hurricane.

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-09-21

• @Darth_Emma http://drobo.com/macbreak - $25 off either version of Drobo. (We don't get paid by the purchase, but the traffic reassures em!) #
• OK the TWiT/Leoville server is back up. I'm restoring from backups where possible. Details at http://poprl.com/0mE #

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-09-20

• @RickMacMerc Don't make me cry, Rick. #
• Burn After Reading and steak tacos at The Alamo on 6th St in Austin. If it had been after 5p I might have had a gin and tonic, too. #
• @RickMacMerc Yeah the TWiT and Leoville sites are down. I've put in a ticket with Softlayer. This machine has been a lil flaky lately. #
• Erggh. The RAID 5 array died on the server for TWiT.tv and Leoville.com - sites will be down for a while. #
• @alansebastian I enjoyed Burn After Reading - but I'm a Coen Brothers fan. Frances, Brad, and George were a little broad I thought. #
• @alienspaces If you're gonna buy a Drobo use our promo code not Cali's! But seriously the RAID 5 card died - data is not recoverable. -sigh- #
• @PhantomJoe Yeah - the hardware in that server has been troubled for a while. It was a 3Ware 9550-SX RAID card that died. #
• @rogermcguinn Yeah it's a little disappointing. We have three Raptors in the array. No data is recoverable. My backups are a little old too. #
• Rebuilding twit.tv, army.twit.tv, live.twit.tv, twit.tv/forums, and leoville.com, munchcast.com is not going to be fun. #
• @mollywood Is that code? #

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-09-18

• Off to Austin for NAB. Too early. in Oakland, CA http://tinyurl.com/3rbo88 #
• It's kind of quiet here. Smells like a recession. in Austin, TX http://tinyurl.com/3g3ahx #

Leo's Twitter Updates for 2008-09-14

• @submooringtone I think that's definitely going on for some. When you get hundreds of people in a chat there are all sorts of undercurrents. #