Odd.  I was searching for an entry I wrote shortly after Wayne popped back up in my life, and I couldn’t find it.  It was called “I’ll be waiting” and was written back in 1988.  It was written about him.  I posted it following his sudden appearance on the radar because… well… it had been written about him and having him show up again seemed a prophetic fulfillment of the sentiments I conveyed in that particular work.

Know what?  I couldn’t find it.  I knew it had been posted around November 2005.  After searching by various words I thought were in it, I finally pulled out the original faded notebook paper it had been written on and tried searching for exact phrases I knew had to be in it.  Still nothing.

The investigator in me then went to work determining why it was gone.  Come to find out, there were dozens of posts missing.  Most of them predated the migration to this blogging platform, many of them predated the migration to this domain, yet some of them were from the recent past and were native to the current incarnation of xenogere.  I was befuddled.

And then I remembered some of the odd hiccups I was having after a major upgrade to the site.  You might remember that posts would appear for a short while fully intact, but minutes or hours later they would suddenly and inexplicably truncate to a few sentences.  I did eventually figure out that problem (it was not the blog platform despite the recent upgrade; it was related to a Firefox upgrade and how the browser was remembering my sessions and restoring them even if that meant there was a POST HTTP request included).  Well, come to find out, that was only partially to blame.

A comparison of the last SQL backup of my previous site plus a comparison of the last SQL backup of my previous blogging platform from this site showed I had missed converting several posts during the migration process.  In addition, the Firefox issue had consumed several posts that I was not aware of, and those posts were subsequently vanquished to memory instead of digital archive.

Oops.

I’ve now restored all of the missing entries.  I was even able to restore comments that went with them (since they were included in the various SQL backups).  Most of what had been lost and now is found dated from more than a year ago (in fact, most of it was from before my move to this domain).  You probably never noticed they were gone.  I sure didn’t.