The short story: I deleted a file on my Linux server responsible for part of a Web site I’ve been working on working on and I tried to “unerase” it. 24 hours later, due to an almost unbelievable series of technical hurdles, it still wasn’t unerased and I’d thought I’d lost every file on my workstation and was left without a working backup (resulting in the loss of data from 20 years ago up until now).

Currently: All of my workstation files are available again, but the one file originally deleted 36 hours ago is still deleted. I’ll now spend the 2 hours or so it will take to recreate it from scratch.

Coming up: A much longer journal entry listing all of the details, and outlining the torturous path I walked down in the last two days.