This thing seems to be back. There's been corruption in the site's table for some time, especially in trackbacks, and something today, I know not what, sent it way over the edge. Almost any attempt to access the site locked up the server for anywhere from 2-5 minutes, and then eventually it just got completely FUBARed.

A great number of past trackbacks were lost, as were a couple of messages. I doubt any were of consequence. (I doubt anything here is of consequence. I don't know why you're reading this. I don't know why most people blog, but here we are.)

I don't know what pushed it over the edge; I don't think the spam trackbacks were more annoying than before, and anything else after Tuesday was lost anyway. I think the message database is now completely rebuilt except for those few things that couldn't be recovered, and the new version is about 1/3 the size of the corrupted one, so I guess that's a good sign. If it starts to come back I may turn off trackbacks so the server doesn't get compromised again.

(This was about all I could do today anyway due to back pain that fluctuated between 4 and 7 on the "ow" scale, as in "ow ow ow ow" to "ow ow ow ow ow ow ow". It's easy to write a recursive diagnostic routine and then rest while it runs as opposed to sitting up the whole time.)

Anyway, hi. Go do something good.

Hey, how about that!

NEW ORLEANS -- The city of El Reno is one of five winners of the national Great American Main Street Award, officials said.

The announcement was made Monday in New Orleans by officials with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Trust Main Street Center.

El Reno is one of five cities chosen from 11 semifinalists and is being recognized for efforts to revitalize its commercial district through historic preservation.

The preservation is amazing. They boiled the entire street to sterilize and then put it in this huge mason jar, where it's expected to last for up to two years, provided they keep it in a cool, dark place.

From another copy of the AP report:

The city was praised for rehabilitating 109 historic buildings and 78 facades and for developing a successful rail trolley system.

Do many cities develop unsuccessful rail trolley systems? This one isn't for mass transit, it's for tourism and history - it runs from the old railroad depot at the Historical Society on a loop through downtown and back to the museum. No one depends on it for anything, and I rarely see it running.

I mean, it's cool and all that, but since they only run it once or twice a day depending on passengers, and it was paid for by grant money, it's difficult to see how it could "fail." Still, yay for us.