A total blogging bummer…

So, I have to find a backup of my old blog, and re-create it, and find all you wonderful people again. I say I lost my blog roll — really not sure when — sometime during the past several weeks, because I’m not sure when it happened, or why it happened, but a lot has been happening. I recently moved my website and this blog to a new hosting company. I think everything was OK then. Then I backed up my hard-drive on my PC and downgraded my PC from Vista back to Windows-XP pro. I think everything was OK then, however, I did backup all my old backups to DVD and CD’s before downgrading to Windows-XP. And Windows-XP is running much nicer than Vista was. (Vista really sucks on an Intel box with only 1GB of RAM.)

So anyway, might need to dig through a box of CDs or DVDs to find an old backup of a backup.

But then I also upgraded from WordPress 2.2 to WordPress 2.3 and finally to WordPress 2.5, and also tried out a few new plugins, and everytime I always tried to make backups before I installed a new plugin, or a new theme… but like I said I need to look through the box of backups of the backups… or could it be the WordPress Import/Export feature that bit me.

You might recall that I wrote a few articles about Managing Your Blogroll, and Refactoring Your Blogroll, and now it looks like I wrote an article about Losing and Recovering your blogroll.

Man, I really miss my old blog roll. If you are out there, I am looking for you … again.

Update (6:00PM Saturday night) – I did find a February 2008 backup of an SQL dump that contains my total blogroll – assembled from 2006 to 2008, so no one is missing — and I’m adding those blog links back on my blogroll.

As long as I’m restoring and refactoring my blogroll, I’ll compare it to the list at WebLog Tool Collection called The 25 Most Valuable Blogs, and see if I should add anything new to my list.

God gave us two ears and one mouth, to remind us to listen more than we talk. My blog roll is full of links to many people that I have never met-in-person. I may disagree with some of the things they write, but I love and respect them all.

So, I was talking about various rules you might use — to know when to delete blogs from your list. Is there a book on blogroll refactoring? How do you know when to delete a link from your blogroll?