Last week, right in the middle of writing my obligatory "See you later dubya, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" post, something went wrong with my blogging software.

At first it was just a minor glitch that deleted the text of all my unpublished posts. I was able to recover probably 90% of my work, and I moved on, figuring the problem was probably something I had caused. (I do sometimes get behind the wheel of this thing while drinking.)

Then a couple days later it happened again, only this time the text of all my blog posts was gone, more than two years worth of my amateur philosophizing. Again I was able to recover most of my work, but it was just the beginning of a slow motion train wreck.

Every time I used the software, it deleted all my blog posts. And every time I went into the archives to recover the blog posts, the archive I had previously used to recover was now blank also. This forced me to use an older archived version of my site every time I had to recover, so every time I went to add a post, I would lose a few more. The harder I worked, the more damage I did, moonwalking my blog away.

I was left with no choice but to abandon ship. I had planned to eventually rebuild this site using Dreamweaver anyway, but I was expecting to do it at my leisure, not as a crash course.

So far my only significant accomplishment is downloading the site code from my Web server directly into Dreamweaver. This saved all my archives going back, so for now I've only lost the 6 or so most recent posts — masterpieces, every one — that I never published for fear of destroying the online version of the site as well. I might have wound up with a website consisting of two years of blog titles.

Now if I can figure out how to add posts to the site as it now exists, I can at least keep publishing while I learn how to fly this thing. This will be my first attempt to upload words to the mother ship. Engage.