Sigh, Lost All Email For the Last Day

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 38mm — 1/80 sec, f/4.5, ISO 1600 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Japanese Gargoyle of Email Destruction

at a craftman's workshop in Otsu, Japan

( email troubles have been part of Japan's cultural lore for centuries )

I've used Emacs as my
primary email client since about 1982, and for the first time in those 30+
years it inexplicably deleted my entire queue of unread mail (about 1,400
messages) when I tried to load the last day's worth of new mail this
morning. Doh!

The thought of losing 1,400 messages awaiting my attention was both
frightening and liberating. Sadly, I keep good automatic backups (in this
case with Crashplan),
so I was able to recover my mail queue as it stood a few hours ago.

As I mentioned
yesterday, I've not been too attentive to email lately so hadn't even
tried to load new mail for about the last day, so anything sent to me in
the last day or so is lost. Sorry.

Most people who send me email don't read my blog so I suppose this won't
do any good, but if you've sent something in the last day or so, please
resend.

(The huge gargoyle seen above is the kind that normally adorns a temple roof's peak, such as the one seen in the following photos.)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/320 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Shoju Raijoji Temple (聖衆来迎寺)

Otsu, Japan








Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 —
map & image data — nearby photos

Gargoyle Detail