What I will Miss about D-X

1. It was a diary site, not a blog site.

2. The teeny boppers mostly stayed away.

3. I liked the ability to have complete control over my template.

4. NO ADS!!! :) No ads on any of the pages whatsoever.

5. Cheap hosting: for only $14.95 per year (started out at $12 back in 2001), you could upload photos and then link wherever you wanted to. Most people had free diaries. I paid because I wanted to host photos for my template there.

6. Decent support.

7. More thoughtful entries from diarists, for the most part.

8. Pretty much troll-free, for the most part.

9. Easy upkeep and maintenance.

10. Did I mention few teeny-boppers and no ads???

RIP, D-X. You'll be fondly missed.

Recovery

Well, I was able to recover approximately 38 entries from my d-x using the Wayback Machine. That's probably about a third of what I had written and saved there. However, beggars can't be choosers. I am lucky to get anything back. I thought I had downloaded my diary to my home computer, but I couldn't find it, so it must have gotten lost when my hard drive crashed in July 2004.

I was glad to find some of the entries, like the 100 Things About Me, and my Bio entry. I'll have to go through my stuff here at home and see what I can find. Some of the later entries from 2005 I still have saved on my laptop.

I wonder if there is a way to download Blogger entries. I would really be annoyed to lose all of these entries. Aha! A search of the Blogger help page leads me to this entry. Downloading from Blogger is possible; it's just a little bit more involved. (And of course I screwed it up. If you see any mistakes, I will have to fix them later. Make sure when copying a template that Notepad can handle the whole file. Sigh.)

I am looking at losing my d-x in a positive way. It gives me the chance to start over again. I just don't know where I'll be doing that yet. :)

Watch this space for updates!

Diary-X is DEAD :(

Sigh. The Diary-X drive that failed was unrecoverable. There were absolutely no backups of anyone's journals.

I will be relocating my online journal to a new site, but I'm not sure where as of yet. For now, I'll still be posting here.

Learn a lesson, people: what you think is safe being "archived" online ain't necessarily so. I fear I lost five years of journal entries, not only due to D-X's failure, but also my own hard drive failure in 2004.

BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!! :)

Massive Failure???

D-X has had a massive hard drive failure. No backups have been performed since 2004? You've got to be kidding me??? You can read more about D-X at wikipedia.

Sigh. And I just renewed in December, even though I hadn't posted for awhile. Sigh SIGH SIGH. So that is why you don't see some images linked on this blog.

I apologize.

The True Story of "Eight Below"

Read this article if you want to know more about the true story the movie "Eight Below" was inspired by.

I took DD to see the movie this weekend. The dogs are beautiful, just like my own dear Pippy (see pic in previous post). But if you're thinking of getting a Husky, please read the article I linked to, and the other links at the bottom of the article. Huskies are not for everyone, and there are so many in rescue already.

But do go see this movie. It has some gorgeous photography and the dogs are so adorable. Just bring along a pack of Kleenex. :)

The Dogs

Here's Magnus our Boxer. Ain't he sweet? He is now 13 months old.

And this is Pippy, our Husky. She just turned 7 in December.

Needing Rescue

Anybody watch the show on Animal Planet last night about Rocket Dogs? Pali Boucher, the founder of the group is really amazing. She works 18-hour days, rescuing dogs from animal shelters, finding them temporary homes, and forever homes.

According to the show, she was homeless for most of her life. Then she got a dog named Leadbelly, and having to take care of him saved her. Through him, she found her purpose in life: to rescue animals who might otherwise not get a second chance. My heart broke, watching Pali try to rescue Kischka, a beautiful older Siberian Husky from the shelter. She luckily found a temporary home, and then a permanent home for the dog. Yay! (We have a Siberian Husky; I cannot imagine losing her.)

It must be hard for Pali to have to pass up dogs at the shelters. She said that she always goes to get just the dogs she was called about, but always ends up with one more. :) She did say that she learned that she cannot rescue EVERY animal; there are just too many. But she does what she can to save lives.

I wish every animal owner was as loving and caring as Pali. There would be fewer dogs needing rescue. Maybe there would be fewer people needing rescue as well.

Support your local animal shelters and rescues! Remember, donations are tax-deductible!

Happy Imbolc!

Happy Imbolc.

I am all recovered from my recent illness. Thanks for asking. :)

However, I've been extremely exhausted lately--too tired to focus on much of anything when I get home from work. I'm so lazy.

The tail pipe of my car decided to detach last weekend. It will cost $250 to fix; we decided to wait to get it fixed. The muffler is just fine, thankfully. The car itself seems a little louder when running.

Sigh. When it rains, it pours.