Comments on: Bloggers Nightmare! We need a drink(s) – “Island Taxi” cocktail recipe

By: Simply...Gluten-free

Simply...Gluten-free — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:29:46 +0000

OMG!!! How horrible. I would make that drink a triple! You guys work hard enough as it is. God, I never even thought of backing up my blog. Jeez, I’m gonna have a drink or two for you!

By: Psychgrad

Psychgrad — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:08:01 +0000

Thanks for the info about backing up a blog. I’ll have to look into that.

By: White on Rice Couple

White on Rice Couple — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:02:28 +0000

Thanks for all the sympathies, everyone. D. was pouting pretty hard while things were messed up. There are still some posts truncated that will take some time to recreate. WAPITA. (What a pain in the ass!) Several have asked how to back up their sites. We are on WordPress, and there is a plugin that will automatically back your site up regularly, but it didn’t work for us correctly when we tried to restore the site. We are still researching why. A probably better solution would be to follow the methods listed on the wordpress site listed here :
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
It probably works for other platforms as well, but we don’t know for sure since we’ve only used wordpress. And Sandie, don’t harass the bartenders too much if they don’t know how to make an Island Taxi. It is our own creation. Just tell them they have to start reading our blog. Thanks again everyone for the support. T.

By: Rita

Rita — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:35:17 +0000

oppppsssss…..glad to see you back! and glad to know that you didnt resort to drinking chinese cooking wine like some people did (no no not me) LOL

By: Sandie

Sandie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:05:02 +0000

Hey guys – I’m truly sorry to hear of your coding issues. It’s amazing how 1 tiny, miserable piece of code can mess up a whole blog, but I know it happens. Best of luck getting everything up & running at 100%.

Now… onto the really good stuff. Holy Moly! This drink looks delicious! I’m spending the month of July in Florida and am getting ready to visit various beaches over the next 2 weeks. Are you familiar with those little tiki hut bars found near oceanside pools? I’ll be looking for these “Island Taxi’s” in the days to come, and if the tiki bar bartenders are lame and don’t know how to make these (off chance, but still a chance,) I’m printing this recipe, making copies and handing it to him or her, with instructions to keep the glasses coming while I soak up some serious sun & waves! Cheers in advance…

By: peabody

peabody — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:18:06 +0000

Looks like the kind of drink that could get me into trouble. Tastes so good that you drink more than your share and then bam…you are stumbling around.
Glad you are back and running.

By: Precious Pea

Precious Pea — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:54:11 +0000

Oh dear..it happened to me once too when I went to change the layout of my blog. Ended up everything gone and I spent hours restoring it. It was a nightmare and I was crying and scolding myself for hours.

I hope you will sort out all your links and stuffs soon.

By: Cakelaw

Cakelaw — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:50:13 +0000

Such a pain to have all your hard work messed up! Hope that it has righted itself now. One Island Taxi for me please! (Love the colour!)

By: Rasa Malaysia

Rasa Malaysia — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:38:30 +0000

Ouch, sounds like a nightmare. The good thing about having our own domain is that all the published pages will still reside at the FTP even though they got wiped out from the blog management tool. But it’s a pain.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:53:52 +0000

oh, no! I don’t even know how to back up my blog… is there a feature on word press that does that?
the good news is that the feed seems to be working! i hope you get to recover everything!