Unpleasant Reminder of Why Backups Are Useful

Well, in an unfortunate turn of events I accidentally deleted the database containing all of this site's old Wordpress content. It was one of those commands that I knew was bad as soon as I hit Enter; I just didn't realize how bad until I realized that I didn't have anything close to a current backup of the database.

I've moved most of the useful old posts to this page for future reference.

So I've decided to make a clean start and switch this site over to Drupal in the process. Over the next few days I'll rebuild what I can of the old site and begin adding a few new elements, like an RSS aggregator, which I'm looking forward to.