Where are my blog posts?

AS HAS BEEN†MY ROUTINE†for several months now, I started my day†in the office today by opening my Firefox Web browser which will automatically launch my blog site.

My first reaction was to panic as I noticed that the latest post in my blog is dated June 28. Today is July 17. Between these two dates I think I must have posted about a dozen new blog entries. Where did all my new blog posts go?

Panic turned into denial as I attempted to psyche myself into believing that this is not happening for real. There must be a logical explanation to this madness. There always is. The next steps I took were not exactly logical though. I closed my Firefox browser and opened Internet Explorer fully expecting that the problem will vanish away as if it didn’t really happen. Of course I got the same result.

Not yet content I again closed my Internet Explorer and re-opened FireFox. It finally sunk in. Now my denial mode turned to shock.

It’s real. I lost all my blog entries between June 28 and July 17. Erased. Deleted. Zapped. Gone.

What happened? What did I do?

Now the logic is coming back. As shock turned to acceptance I can now think with a clearer head. Of course when things go wrong there is always a logical explanation.

Being a novice at blogging and being an eager-beaver wanting to learn as much as I can in as little time as possible I’ve been experimenting on a lot of stuff simultaneously. Last night I got a notification that WordPress.org, the self-hosted version of WordPress,†has a newly released update and I was encouraged to immediately apply it on my blogsite. I was also experimenting on setting up Google AdSense, and a number of other technical stuff. Helping me with all these is friend and colleagure,†Sherwin De Jesus, who handles all the techy details (I always refer to myself as a dumb user) and who also hosts my blog.

On my request Sherwin attempted to update my version of WordPress. At the same time he was attempting to make Google AdSense to work on my blogsite. At the same time I also asked him to do this, and to try that, and to adjust this, and to fix that…

Ka-boom! Without a warning everything fell apart. Of course, we both only realized it this morning when I opened my Web browser.

Lesson learned: †“If you are in a hurry to accomplish something you better slow down.”

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To all of those who took time to drop a comment or two on my blog entries between June 28 and July 17, my sincerest apologies because your comments have been lost, too. I can and I will re-post my blog entries but your comments are gone forever [unless you put them back in ]. I hope this unfortunate incident will not discourage you from reading my future blog posts and also from leaving your much-appreciated comments.