Or have they? Let's try posting this.
And it works! I'm back online.
The bad news: I lost a few days' worth of entries and comments, including, unfortunately, the entry "Is Tenure a Cartel?" (it's not the post I regret but the comments, and especially those by John Bruce and Zizka). I also lost my blog templates: the main template (links to other blogs and other sites, recommended readings on the academic job market, and so on), and the stylesheet (I had started out with one of the MT default templates, then gradually made changes -- I will do so again, but it won't be the same as the original because I stupidly did not back up the style template, and can't remember what changes I had made).
The good news: I had backed up my entries up to the afternoon of June 4, which I've now imported.
Many thanks to all those who sent queries, recommendations, and offers of help, and especially to Erin O'Connor of Critical Mass, Ogged of Unfogged, and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of Relevant History.
Posted by Invisible Adjunct at June 12, 2003 01:51 PMWelcome back!
Posted by: AccidentalAdmin at June 12, 2003 09:43 AMThanks!k
Posted by: Invisible Adjunct at June 12, 2003 09:47 AMNice to have you back. While you were gone I wrote up a summary of what I think about various questions in the air here, which I have posted at my URL. The page I have posted links to a "mission statement" less specifically focussed on the university as an institution. So you may have lost a few posts, but you've gained two full pages of depressing pontification.
Posted by: zizka at June 12, 2003 12:31 PMNice to see you back up and running, IA. Server crashes are really no fun. Hope you've found a better provider this time.
Posted by: Kevin Walzer at June 12, 2003 12:33 PMYAY!
Posted by: Rana at June 12, 2003 01:34 PMCome now, you are not a real blogger until your software has eaten at least some of your entries :)
Welcome back.
Posted by: kevin at June 12, 2003 02:04 PMThank god! And I was just about to add "if she ever returns" to the IA shout-out in my latest post ("Academic hatchet-jobs"). Welcome back, O most visibly invisible of adjuncts!
Posted by: language hat at June 12, 2003 02:23 PMGlad to see you back. For a while there I was worried the Tenured Mafiosi had gotten to you. <wink />
Posted by: Curtiss Leung at June 12, 2003 02:31 PM"Come now, you are not a real blogger until your software has eaten at least some of your entries :)"
I feel like the Velveteen Rabbit: I'm real!...
Posted by: Invisible Adjunct at June 12, 2003 02:49 PM"So you may have lost a few posts, but you've gained two full pages of depressing pontification."
An excellent bargain. Zizka, I have read quickly. Will reread, and post something later.
Posted by: Invisible Adjunct at June 12, 2003 03:32 PMAnd now you've got your color back! The site was looking rather pale earlier -- now I know it's on the road to recovery!
That Velveteen Rabbit is a great metaphor, isn't it? It'd be a lovely name for a group blog for post-academics, ex-academics, the ABJs (All But Job), those on the tenuous-track...
Posted by: Rana at June 12, 2003 05:27 PMGlad to see you back -- and at least somewhat colorized!
Posted by: Naomi Chana at June 12, 2003 05:53 PMWelcome back! Missed you! R.
Posted by: Rebecca Goetz at June 12, 2003 07:12 PMHey--this is good news! Thought you'd been whacked by academic goons.
Posted by: Thomas Hart Benton at June 13, 2003 07:05 AM"Thought you'd been whacked by academic goons."
You're not the only one who thought this. What does this say about the academy?...
Posted by: Invisible Adjunct at June 13, 2003 08:37 AMDunno, IA. Why don't you ask that in a post rather than a comment? *malicious grin*
Posted by: Dorothea Salo at June 13, 2003 10:50 AM