Major database fail. Things may look odd for a day or two. More later…
I seem to be into site maintenance lately.
I’m doing a big project at Groceteria to redesign the store location lists to make them more responsive/device-friendly and also to integrate them more fully into the site search. I’ve also done a lot of theme work there to bring the main site and the message board more in sync.
As for this site, I lost all my tags and categories last year when I had the major database crash, I ended up having to restore the site one table at a time and the tag/category tables just would not work. I decided at the time not to care, but now I’m fixing it (manually) along with years of broken links, some of which date back to when I first migrated the site into WordPress almost 20 years ago. There are almost 3700 posts on the site, going back to 1996, so it may take a bit. (No, I’m not sure why I’m bothering with this site either, but here we are…)
Doing some work on the site (as I mentioned) and I’m restoring a few old posts that never made the transition to WordPress. Today, I bring you Diners, Dives, and Dumps, a short-lived collaboration between my friend Sarah and I in 1997-1999. Sadly, not a single one of these exists in its original form today:
- Sunday dinner at Art’s Soul Kitchen (16 November 1997, San Francisco)
- Ye Olde Pizza Joint (12 September 1998, Hayward)
- Tad’s Steak House (8 August 1999, San Francisco)
- Jack London Would’ve Eaten Here… (15 March 1999, Oakland)
You’re welcome! Enjoy the low-res images.
Did some re-theming tonight connected with all the maintenance and other tweaks. I’ve been needing to do that since the big database crash last year too.
I think it looks much better than It has over the past year, but I really kind of miss the individuality and design aesthetic of the web a couple of decades back. I was doing “dark mode” before it was cool. That said, focusing on content rather than design has its charms as well.