so the hard drive in the gallery server has failed and with it goes all of the images in the image gallery as well as the image gallery code. it’s been a couple of weeks now and i have finally gotten over the tragedy that is the loss of the gallery code. (i, uhhh, didn’t have a backup. the code was SVN’d, though, but on the same server that everything died on)

so lesson learned. backups are critical. yes, yes, i know, and i’m now making better plans to safeguard myself from such a problem again. it’s sad, but these things must be done.

so i’m going to be re-inventing the wheel again and making a new image gallery. i think that i will really try to use as much open source stuff as i can instead of trying to make everything myself. i was really proud of my image resizing engine, but alas it’s gone.

with the new server, i’m going to also make a few changes around. i think that i am going to try to incorporate some kind of comment system again in the image gallery. right now i am also motivated enough to reprocess all of the photos and reupload them all. we’ll see how far i get before i lose steam, but i don’t want a site with no content on it again!