I'm whole again!

The toughest thing to repair from my blog hack incident back in August was that the kind, thoughtful folks (we know who you are, be afraid, very afraid) who did it decided to try and save Typepad some disk space and deleted a whole bunch of my posts from Feb 2008 through early August.  As I have mentioned before, Typepad does not have a restore from deleted feature.

As I have also said before as a result of knowing some folks at Typepad I was able to get a back up of my blog.  They showed me how to manually set up a file to import the deleted posts.  That was fine for doing one or two at a time, but almost 300 blog posts was just a bit much.  I tried and tried to figure out the best way to do this.  Finally I gave up.

Instead I handed it over to handy, dandy Jake Reynolds, IT magician person. Jake took the file onto his shiny Mac, did some scripting and tonight I imported 6 files and presto! 6 months worth of blog files restored! I am not sure the indexing of them is synced yet, but that should take a day or two I guess.

In the meantime, all 1300+ of my blog articles are now available again.  At some level I feel like this is closing another chapter on the whole experience of August.