Okay so some (or many) of you may have stopped by yesterday and had to rub your eyes to make sure you were seeing clearly…I know I did. My site was obliterated. Was I hacked? Only by my own stupidity. During my efforts to try and fix the database of one of my upcoming hostees, my genius self erased my own, so all my pages, posts, comments, settings, etc. were GONE. And because I’m even more intelligent than that, the backup I had saved to my computer a couple weeks ago–I just deleted like the day before and couldn’t even find with Data Recovery software.

I. Wanted. To Cry.

The only somewhat recent backup I COULD find was from February, so I told myself, well I was on hiatus for most of the time since so I won’t be missing too much…but if you know anything about us webbies and computer nerds, losing ANYTHING makes us lose sleep. I went ahead and restored what I had so that there was at least a SITE there haha, but then I contacted DreamHost support to see if by any miracle I’d be able to recover the lost information. I knew I was out of luck as far as my PC backup, but I really don’t know that much about web servers and such so I figured it didn’t hurt to ask.

And then I received the most beautiful e-mail of my life:

Hello Jenny,
Actually, there IS hope! Here’s where you’ll want to go:
*link*
Then hit “restore DB”, and you can grab a backup going back as far as 5
days. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thanks!
Jeff H

I died the most happiest death ever. I did exactly what it said and was able to restore right up to–at most–a few hours before my mishap had occured, leaving me only missing a small amount of affiliate traffic logs which is certainly not cry-worthy in itself.

SO YEY!!

Anyway I actually don’t have anything else exciting to report, as if this wasn’t exciting enough, just wanted to let you know what on earth was going on yesterday and to apologize!

Okay I decided to grace you with the presence of some of the photos I’ve been working on :) Check out my all new Aquatic Scapes album! They’re from the Georgia Aquarium, and in case they seem sort of…out of order…it’s because the first whole time through the exhibits I was having MAJOR camera issues, so I went back around to all of them after I got it working better haha. I had to do a LOT of photoshopping to get some of the intense BLUE out, so I apologize if the coloring seems odd…I figured I’d go ahead and go for style ;)