Your Assistance is Humbly Requested
July 17th, 2006
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Posted by ChrisG at 4:21 pm
Because whilst this represents something like normal service, it’d be a lot more normal if some of you kind people could help me out.
That’s because Smokewriting’s recent unscheduled holiday was caused by yours truly forgetting to backup the site ahead of major changes at the ISP, despite multiple memos-to-self. As a result, everything – and I mean everything – from the site’s last incarnation vanished. Posts, links, comments – alles. And this isn’t even the first time this kind of catastrophe has happened round here, FFS. Behold the grand incompetence Rochenkette has to deal with on a daily basis.
Anyway, the upshot of this confession is that in order to recover as much of the content as possible – some of which I actually found myself being pleased with – I need you to contact me (via the comments or via the email address on the left) if you happen to have saved any of the posts anywhere, for whatever reason, and would be able to pass on a copy. Particularly if anyone has a copy of the post I wrote last year following the ICA seminar on Gillian Rose’s philosophy.
Many thanks.
UPDATE: Much kudos and gratitude to Peter Gasston and his Bloglines feed, thanks to whom everything will be shortly resurrected. And of course to Justin, who brought us together.
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I don’t suppose you’ve had a look to see what the Wayback Machine has captured?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://smokewriting.bluesmokedesign.com/
Thanks for the tip Tim – have already checked it out, and harvested some older stuff from last year. But it’s stuff since October 2005 that I’m really after.
For Christ’s sake, R., you weren’t like this before you met Mrs. R, you know. Tell her to stop spooking you.
I jest. Welcome back, and I’d like to vote twice for the new colour scheme (both positive). There is a certain musicality to it.
May the toiletries of your encoupled lives be as charming as ever.
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