And everything will work out fine.

As a preface to this post: I suck a lot.

Yesterday I inadvertently deleted my blog’s database after having assumed that I had backups (I meant to delete an other older wordpress installation). I can picture the virtual cringing happening from my more backup-diligent blog readers. Yes, I suck, and yes, I’ve learned my lesson. Here, I even made a lolvero for your enjoyment.

Anyway, thanks to the magic of my RSS feed and Google Cache, I was able to manually recover all my posts last night. The only thing I lost were all my comments from the past 14 months (well, I can still view them on cached pages, but I have no way of importing them).

The experience was painful enough that you can be sure I won’t just assume when it comes to backups anymore. You would have thought that I might have learned something from the great hard drive crash of January 09? I guess not!

RSS feeders: sorry if you got spammed with all my posts again last night. Google reader seems to have picked up on the fact that I reinstalled wordpress in a different directory (root directory instead of workoutfine.com/wordpress), but I’m not too sure this magic carries over to other feed readers.

My new feed address is http://workoutfine.com/?feed=rss2, just in case.

Yup, I suck, you can stop shaking your head now.