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Posted on 03 March 2008, at 12:03 am, by Judie Lipsett
No, you haven’t traveled back in time.
Gear Diary suffered a massive and catastrophic hard drive and server crash on its former host, HostICan, on March 1st, 2008. We are in the process of rebuilding, but the truth of the matter is that we have probably lost many months of hard work. I’ll post details of whole sordid tale shortly (here you go, and enough said), but first I need to finish getting the site presentable.
Pretend you just came over and caught me with the day’s laundry on the sofa after a tornado. 
Thank you for your patience, well wishes, and most of all - thank you for your support.
More soon…
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March 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 am
Very good to see you back. I’ve been away for the weekend myself as well so I didn’t miss a lot, but I *chose* to be away. I don’t even want to imagine how stressful it must have been for you all to deal with this if the communication with people you rely on is so troublesome. (Read about this on JAMM)
Looking forward to see new posts on GD appear on my RSS reader again!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 am
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:45 am
Welcome back. And how appropriate that the first post (underneath this one) is the Sprint Mogul.
I bought that device based on THAT review — and it was my main brain for many months until the iPhone dislodged it…
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Judie you rock.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Good Luck Judie… I feel your pain.
Call me if you need any help.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
My sincere condolences. Sounds like HostICan dropped the ball big time and now you’ve got to clean up their mess.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Welcome back Judie - Hope you can recover most everything eventually, but if you can’t, it will be OK…no one with a gadget fetish hasn’t suffered through a catastrophic crash and lost data as some point. You do the best you can to rebuild and then grit your teeth and go on.
We’re all sympathetic, for sure!
Let us know if we can do anything to help!
@Wayne - That was my first thought too, although I still have my Mogul, and mostly still love it.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
You all are awesome - thank you so much for your support! And just for fun…my buddy Mike has a great picture of me in crisis mode.
http://mikecane2008.wordpress......ology-101/
As soon as I get some more back-end stuff done (including getting the last of the prizes from our prematurely ended giveaway labeled to ship), I’ll do the post about everything that went wrong…((sigh))
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
Anytime something like this happens, it reminds me of my first major lesson in technology. I was in 9th Grade and we were studying Romeo and Juliet. We had a worksheet of questions and essays to complete as we read the play. I was diligently working on mine when something happened the night before it was due (this would be the Apple II+ with Bankstreet Writer) and my worksheet was just GONE! Nowhere to be found. I spent the whole night in crisis mode recreating it. I forget what grade I got, but anytime anything goes wrong with computers, we always talk about that Romeo and Juliet worksheet.
Doug
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
yiikes…. good luck with getting gear diary back in working order!
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
I love to start the day with a Peabody reference
http://www.toonopedia.com/peabody.htm
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
YES!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Wow. It’s good that you’re back but… ouch. The headlines and beginning of all recent posts are still out there on the RSS feed. So there’s some of the old material available.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Please know that you were missed
crashing servers leave us dissed
But we know that you’ll rebound
as you hear our cheering sound
Geardiary sure is the best
there new server will pass the test
Sound off -
new posts
Sound off -
more reviews
Sound off -
there back, woo hoo!
Well I had to do something with this crazy creativity formally used to try and win a new bag
Glad to see you all are back in action, best wishes on a speed recovery.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
fishgal! You just put a huge smile on my face.
Speaking of prizes…I still have 10 left from the month of give-aways (which was about to spill into March). They are boxed, ready to go - and I am not unwrapping them!
So we will figure out another give-away soon…probably involving a device, as well.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I think Fishgal’s poem ought to win something.
Doug
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
OK I want in on this poetry thing…..
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak an weary…etc etc.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
@Jerry - You are disqualified for plagiarism.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Oh yeah? How do you know he didn’t get it from me??
March 4th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Great to see ya back on line. Kind of makes me think twice about working totally in the clouds.