The butterfly effect

[K-Dog]

Or more correctly deterministic non-periodic flow, and the lack of it.

There was a visit from the men in black and we lost some stuff.  Naked Athena was among the losses.  The video on the server was deleted.  Our backups system at the time was lackadaisical.  The havoc and loss caused the Diner to improve, but there was a flaw in my new backup system.  When I encountered the post that needed naked Athena I loaded her back up.
    My restore flaw was exposed when I scrambled our database after wiping it out by accident.  I could not restore it quite right using my backup.  I've since fixed the flaw, and our database is restored with all posts now in categories.  The only damage remaining is some topics, but not many, have been split in two.  I consider that to be a minor issue, and I plan to do much more to refine topics and threads in the future.  Broken topics will be fixed.  Point now is that the Diner is better off now than before the database accident.

Two disasters resulted in substantial Diner improvements,  and I plan more.  the butterfly effect is in here somewhere.

* It was not a good idea to have a restore button in my tools that did not check to see that the backup location was empty before it erased the database to get ready for new data.  That button is now disabled.  One impulsive click was all it took.  I now take checking such things more seriously, I knew I should not have made the button that way I did.  But since it is only a button that I can see I did not think I would forget the danger.  I was lazy.


A few months went by and I forgot the danger.