Jinn of Quality and Risk

I've just lost 15 recent posts, all items written since October 1st (just when I was going to write post number 666...). Don't know why. Looks like a counter went back from 665 to 651. The items simply disappeared this afternoon. How do I recover them (in Radio UserLand)? Found XML archive files for each item in the backup folder. How can I import them back into the system?

Update: OK, found nextPostNum, set it to 669, and renumbered the last posts from 651-653 to 666-668 so as to leave space for the 15 missing items. Still need to somehow import the lost items.

Final update: Lawrence Lee at UserLand imported the backup XML files into my weblogData.root file and everything is fine! 

Windley: Since every story that's been written about me (good and bad) has contained major factual errors, I have to believe that most stories contain factual errors. Journalists are frequently sloppy with the facts, not bothering to investigate or verify them---just reporting on other reports. How true, and disappointing. Modern schools of journalism teach students that there is no such thing as objectivity. The result is a wave of subjective and, worse yet, arbitrary reporting. This is one reason weblogs are so important and popular: some people still believe in objectivity, i.e. conscious adherence to facts. 

Got the ADSL modem/Ethernet router. Got the ADSL connection (earlier than predicted by BT). Got the Wi-Fi (Airport) base station. Got the always-on, wireless Internet connection. Measured the download bandwidth at about 50kB/s, compared to 4kB/s with the 56k dial-up. Roughly 12x faster. Bliss. Fully worth the cost for set-up and subscription. What a difference it makes in downloading large files, as well as emailing pictures and movies. Now I truly understand the craze to download music. Not to mention the ability to sit down anywhere in the flat and have permanent access to the Internet. Still, I wouldn't call this "broadband" because this kind of bandwidth is barely sufficient to view "medium-size" movies (about 320x136) in real-time. I'd like to have some serious distribution of contents for larger files. Radio UserLand offers "enclosures" but I haven't seen it in much use. Need to experiment with an RSS feed of large movie trailer enclosures. Need to remember that most people still access the Internet with excruciatingly slow modems.