Mark's Notebook

Disappearing square dance clubs

Emergency!

I've been updating the page of California square and round dance clubs. In late July I sent out requests for updates, and I worked feverishly on the database until August 6, when we left for Paraguay. I even worked on the site one lazy day while we were in Asuncion.

I was tidying up the last of it yesterday when I went over quota on the account and I lost the database file. (I had gone over quota because lots of cue sheets got posted on the site while I was away.)

Anyway, my most recent backup is dated August 5, and I haven't received any more recent backups from the server administrator. So now it looks like I have to input again all the changes since August 5. Right now, there is nothing there! This doesn't mean all the clubs in California have gone dark; really only about ten of them are out of business since last fall. But I do have a fair bit of work ahead of me to fix this mess.

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Last updated Tuesday 13 May 2008