Written by: Beck

All it takes to annihilate a blog hosted on Blogspot is to press a button on one of the settings pages which says "Delete Blog," followed by clicking a confirm box. That's part of the reason why I retain soul administrator rights to INCITE and why I never click the "Remember Me" box or use Internet Explorer's password auto-fill function when logging into Blogger (the publishing tool for Blogspot).

It's not that I think something bad would actually happen or believe any of my writers capable of doing something malicious, it's just that the thought of losing over a year's worth of writing--probably close to 2,000 posts in all (the post count functionality of Blogspot went down in November and hasn't resumed updating since)--is more than I could deal with.

As such, I can imagine the mental anguish that David Anderson is going through right now. David Anderson is the creator of the excellent blog In Search of Utopia. You'll see it linked over to the right on the blogroll. I don't bother linking it now because, well, following the link wouldn't do you any good.

The details are long and boring, but basically, through no fault of his own, David's blog was completely nuked by his host, with both the hosting server and backups formatted. David hasn't decided whether he'll be back or not. If I had to guess, I'd wager he'll be back eventually. Regardless, I can only imagine the kind of mental anguish he's enduring right now.

In Search of Utopia was one of the best liberal blogs out there--one I thoroughly enjoyed reading even when I disagreed 100% with the politics therein. It routinely appeared in Technorati's Politics Attention Index of top linked stories. I hope David will be back, if not, his loss will be sorely felt, as a voice of reason and integrity will have departed from the blogosphere.