{"id":3447,"date":"2014-05-11T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2014-05-11T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T18:24:12","slug":"seven-year-scatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3447","title":{"rendered":"Seven Year Scatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI have spent the better part of the last week finding myself.<\/em>\u00a0 Not in my usual Zen ways and means, but in my geek girl persona where I had to rosin the technical bow and play the Recover SQL Symphony.\u00a0 In short … I lost the last seven years of my blog.<\/p>\n

I’ve kept diaries since I was 8 years old.\u00a0 As a teenager I used a rainbow of felt tip pens and spiral bound notebooks to tell my stories of angst and anger.\u00a0 By the time I was a young mother, I refereed to my writing as journals and than as with any high-tech creative attention drone, I migrated to blogs when my life turned upside down and I left my academic career when I became too ill to work.<\/p>\n

My first blog entry was in 2007 .. the Death of a Dharma Dog<\/a>, and it would become my first of many “Not So Shaggy Dog Stories.”\u00a0 No surprise that my CoolKarma blog morphed into KarmaBytes and I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t some type of cosmic irony at play that all of my data for the last seven years was wiped out this week.<\/p>\n

As a tech savvy woman who spent over two dozen years heading up a college campus technology department, I must have had a back up of my blog, right?\u00a0 Well, electronic copies of the articles, yes?\u00a0 Paper print outs at the very least, hmm?<\/p>\n

No. Nope.\u00a0 And Nada.<\/p>\n

Unfathomable yes?\u00a0 No viable backup?\u00a0 After a slew of helpful live chat sessions with BlueHost, I bit the bullet and purchased a “backup pro” plan for $20 which enabled me to see the hosting company’s April Backup of my database.\u00a0 After hunting through machine code I found the correct SQL file and hand-hacked it t.o work with my new wordpress install.\u00a0 And after another few hours of plugin tweeks I was able to recover the last seven years of my life.<\/p>\n

During the past week of uncertainty, I gave a lot of thought about what it would to loose the blog.\u00a0 What does it mean to LOOSE a Zen blog?\u00a0 How does this fit into my practice of non-attachment?\u00a0 Is this really some koan of Empty Mind?\u00a0 While I realize that I may be the only person who actually reads my refrigerator art.\u00a0 I enjoy my writing and re-reading what I’ve written as I watch history repeat itself time and again.<\/p>\n

My family of course is amazing and punny.\u00a0 Each of them offered to help me REWRITE the last seven years of my life … of course with their unique spin doctoring.\u00a0 Truth is I would do well to have a new story.\u00a0 Nonetheless I realize all too well that losing my blog … is a first world problem.\u00a0 So, I count my blessings that THIS time I was able to pull the rabbit out of the cat’s hat, but I realize that the next time Thing1 and 2 play havvoc with my database I could very well loose everything.\u00a0 Because that’s just the nature of form … its here for a while and we can enjoy it while we can, but ultimately everything returns to the formless.\u00a0 The empty space.\u00a0 the blank page.\u00a0 Or as some may believe … the recycle bin. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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