I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. I also study epigenetic control of ERVs.
Well, I wasnt planning on moving into SciBlogs until after this semester of classes was over (sometime next week), but it appears that the old ERV at Blogger has been deleted.
So while Im jumping through hoops in an attempt to get my old posts back, I figured I might as well move into ERV at SciBlogs!
Yes, yes, I was an idiot and didnt save all of my posts at Blogger. I didnt expect to wake up one day and Google to be gone. And since Blogger is run by Google, and I have a Gmail account, also run by Google, I figured 'Hey, if anything is ever wrong with ERV at Blogger, surely they will email me about it!' hehehehe.
Ah well, living with a pit bull for the past year and a half has taught me not to become attached to possessions:
Even if I cant get all my old posts back, if they were good thoughts, Ill have them again (I did save all of the comments, so your alls thoughts are safe, LOL!)
Comments
At least you're in good company here. Hope you manage to restore your old content and move it over. Good luck!
Posted by: slang | April 28, 2008 10:12 AM
There is a Dog, and thank Dog you're back!
Posted by: Joe McCarthy | April 28, 2008 12:19 PM
Welcome Abbie.
It is nice to have all my favourite blogs in one place!
Posted by: Matt Penfold | April 28, 2008 12:20 PM
Welcome. I am posting this from a Mormon compound, because a photo you once posted convinced me to sign up.
Posted by: Bayesian Bouffant, FCD | April 28, 2008 12:23 PM
YAY FOR ERV!
Posted by: MH | April 28, 2008 12:24 PM
*waves to Arnie*
Good to see you sorted out. We're all off to update our feeds.
Posted by: Bob O'H | April 28, 2008 12:25 PM
Hey Erv!
Your blog was too good for google anyways. It's my suspicion that the old Erv was a victim of the IDiot establishment. And if true - you're really getting to them!
Best Wishes
Posted by: BUNNY CATCH3R | April 28, 2008 12:27 PM
WOOT! Congrats. It's about time you were assimilated into the Seed mindhive.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | April 28, 2008 12:30 PM
Hi Abbie.
I know this is going to be repeated too many times, but I am relieved that your blog has not disappeared. So, who tried to kill your old spot?
Posted by: Janine ID | April 28, 2008 12:31 PM
Good luck on getting the archives moved over, and welcome to your new internet home.
Posted by: zer0 | April 28, 2008 12:34 PM
Hi ERV,
Good to see you at SciBlogs where you belong! So, what the heck happened with Blogger? You seem to be completely deleted from Google searches too -- which makes it seem like something other than a random glitch (to my uninformed eyes).
Posted by: Physicalist | April 28, 2008 12:36 PM
Long time lurker. Good to see this new site. Loads better than the last.
All the best.
Posted by: shiftlessbum | April 28, 2008 12:41 PM
Better luck this time. Actually, best of luck!
You must have done something right.
Posted by: Rrr | April 28, 2008 12:45 PM
Abbie,
I don't know if you remember, but a few weeks back you left a comment over on PZ's blog that motivated me to download all your posts and archive them here.
Welcome to your new home!
~Javier
Posted by: The Science Pundit | April 28, 2008 12:46 PM
Just pretend all that stuffing is all that remains of Ben Stein's fuzzy brain. I guarantee you'll feel better fast! Just don't tell Arnie. He may get the idea and start trying to "cheer you up" more often. :-P
"im in ur hous bein ur gard dog. iz jus killd icky evol ben stein ded. am i teh gret or wat? u didnt lied bout wots in his hed. but iz teh pleh. & i tink i has stummick ake. i can has pepto bizmol?"
Posted by: themadlolscientist | April 28, 2008 12:47 PM
About dang time! Welcome to SciBlogs. Hope you can get your posts back.
Posted by: NoAstronomer | April 28, 2008 12:49 PM
Oh, and whilst I don't know 4 shur how your Arnie spells his (nom nom nom), I think U R doin it rong :-)
Posted by: Rrr | April 28, 2008 12:49 PM
Any word why your account got deleted?
Posted by: Aaron | April 28, 2008 12:50 PM
ERV is alive! And there was much rejoicing! Yay!
Its good to see you, Arnie(and his lazors!!!) in your new interwebs digs. Rock on with the tard pwning and cool sciency blogging!
Posted by: Curly | April 28, 2008 12:51 PM
Welcome aboard! I wonder if some right-wing Christian fanatic took it upon himself to sabotage your blog on Blogger! You are welcome to check out my blogs in Wordpress.
http://circleh.wordpress.com/
Posted by: Dale Husband | April 28, 2008 12:52 PM
Damnit! They got you. I am sorry.. say goodbye to the good old days of freedom. No more can you blog on anything that does not suit the corporate interests of your overlords. And they are not benevolent at all!
But do not despair, some of us are planning an escape.. meet over at janet's blog just after evening roll call..
"Let me come with you. I can see, I can see perfectly."
Posted by: Donalbain | April 28, 2008 12:52 PM
glad to find you back up. I just found your blog on friday , and was working through the old posts. Then i checked this morning, and nothing. I was very sad about that. I am glad to see you on science blogs now, and look forward to more posts. good luck.
Posted by: justin | April 28, 2008 12:53 PM
I am so sorry your old blog is down, but since work blocks blogger - I now can read you in my daily science helping on my lunch break. I'm estatic U CAN HAS SCIBLOG!!!!!
Posted by: n3rdchik | April 28, 2008 1:01 PM
Hi ERV,
Welcome to your new home! Smooth sailing!
Posted by: olegt | April 28, 2008 1:01 PM
Woo! My blog crush lives on.
Posted by: Optimus Primate | April 28, 2008 1:01 PM
I hope you manage to retrieve the old digs.
Good luck, and let me know if I can do anything more to help.
-F.
Posted by: factician | April 28, 2008 1:05 PM
Good to see you've found a new home, it's a shame you were forced out of the old one ahead of schedule.
Posted by: Big Dave | April 28, 2008 1:08 PM
Whooooo! Glad to see you here, Abbie. I thought something was going on at the old digs...
Posted by: rrt | April 28, 2008 1:17 PM
Google reader still has your blog posts
http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fendogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault
Posted by: baley | April 28, 2008 1:21 PM
I hope you all are enjoying the way the comments are lazily drifting towards the right.
:P
Posted by: ERV | April 28, 2008 1:23 PM
Glad you are up and running. I was worried first thing this morning when the old site didn't come up.
Posted by: Iron Soul | April 28, 2008 1:24 PM
Hey! I want everyone to drift to the left!
Congratulations on the move, and I'm betting Dembski's Bottle Of Single-Malt you will be a top blog before Dembski gets a new sweater.
ps: For all NEW ERV readers, hope that Abbie still has her blog posts where she totally made Dembski and Behe cry like little girls.
Posted by: J-Dog | April 28, 2008 1:31 PM
Ive got most of my old posts recovered :)
I also hope you all are enjoying the grey box oozing down the screen.
I IZ R BE GUD AT FORMATTTING.
LOL!
Posted by: ERV | April 28, 2008 1:34 PM
Glad to see you have a new home.
Posted by: alloytoo | April 28, 2008 1:36 PM
This constant drifting on the right is very weird. Is it the result of voluntary intelligent design or casual random chance? (aka a bug)
Posted by: baley | April 28, 2008 1:37 PM
If you use Google Reader to subscribe to the feed linked above, you can grab posts going all the way back into 2007.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | April 28, 2008 1:38 PM
I love how all of you are absolutely certain that some "right wing Christian fanatic" got the original blog deleted. Proof? Who needs it!
Posted by: Jason | April 28, 2008 1:39 PM
So glad to see you back up and running. Especially as on Thursday I had linked your blog to a local radio host who was pondering interviewing Ben Stein. I suggested if he interview that IDIOT, then he should bookend the interview with interviews with you and PZ, or even Larry Morgan.
Let us know why your blog was deleted, and who caused it when you find out; I'm sure everyone who reads your blog can't wait to hear the story.
Posted by: gingerbeard | April 28, 2008 1:40 PM
What is this dreft to teh lift of which you speek? Looks OK to me, on Firefox 2.0.0.14 in Kubuntu 7.10 (yes I know 8.04 is out, d/l'd yesterday on torrent, but not installed yet). Only issue is, as usual, that long URLs are long. So?
Maybe U R doin it rong, as in IExploder? Just a t'ought.
Werry heppi too se you'se're back.
Posted by: Rrr | April 28, 2008 1:45 PM
Well, certainly not the "right wing Christian fanatic"s. QED.
Posted by: Rrr | April 28, 2008 1:49 PM
Woohoo, welcome to ScienceBlogs.com!
By the way, those dog pictures make me want to add amusing captions...
Posted by: Pocket Nerd | April 28, 2008 1:49 PM
I merely suspect that sort of thing. Mostly because it's par for the course among them. Just look at their history.
Posted by: Bronze Dog | April 28, 2008 1:51 PM
I guess my congrats for the assimilation comment done got et up.
Posted by: REv.BigDumbChimp | April 28, 2008 1:58 PM
Not as familiar with this ERV blogger as the rest of you, but I follow Panda and Pharny..
I just want to know whether I need to boycott everything associated with the service that has blacklisted this writer. Details as you find out please. Creeping totalitarianism.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Tim Fuller | April 28, 2008 1:58 PM
Welcome, welcome, and it's good to see you over here. By the way, you aren't the only atheist evilutionist in Oklahoma--far from it. There's at least two of us here.
Posted by: gatoscuro | April 28, 2008 2:05 PM
Hmmmmmmmmm........... I don't see anything drifting. (FF 2.0.0.14)
FWIW, I just gave a heads-up to Kansas Citizens for Science on where to find you.
Posted by: themadlolscientist | April 28, 2008 2:08 PM
Yay! Although I am sorry it took the loss of your blogger site to have to start at Sciblogs early, I am very happy because I can now read you at work on my breaks(my IT dept blocks Blogger sites too...)
Welcome.
Posted by: Dawn | April 28, 2008 2:09 PM
"Old ERV readers"? Who are you calling old? You don't have to be so puerile and jut-jawed.
Really, great to see you in your new neighborhood.
Posted by: Wicked Lad | April 28, 2008 2:19 PM
So any idea what happened to the old blog? I know there's been speculation, but does anyone actually know?
Posted by: Jake | April 28, 2008 2:21 PM
Check out the brightly glowing eyes on that pit bull. Clearly it is possessed. God is punishing you for your atheism. (If you don't understand why God would cause your innocent dog to become a slave of Satan in order to punish you, please re-read the story of David and Bethsheba, in II Samuel 11. )
Posted by: llewelly | April 28, 2008 2:37 PM
Cool. Not the greatest surprise that you made this move, but still it's great to see you here.
Congratulations Abbie.
Posted by: Kristjan Wager | April 28, 2008 2:43 PM
Matt Cutts at Google probably either knows or can find out why ERV was cut from Blogger.
Posted by: Wesley R. Elsberry | April 28, 2008 2:48 PM
Hey, nice to see you over here now! Though I rather suspected this would happen.
Scienceblogs: borging all the best science blogs one at a time..
Posted by: dreikin | April 28, 2008 2:51 PM
I'm new to your blog and I sure can't wait to read what everyone loved of your deleted blog. :) (You make a good example of why you shouldn't trust too much free open blog hosting services like that.)
PS: that dog's a darling. Gotta love pit bulls. (Such a shame they are so heavily discriminated against by paranoid lawmakers.)
Posted by: Michelle | April 28, 2008 2:51 PM
Welcome "back," Abbie!
It really skeered me last night, to find your old blog "removed" by Google! (In fact, you mentioned that the first you knew about it yourself was my email to you.)
The new place is more sciency, and probably will be more resistant to what I suspect (with no evidence yet) was a Creo false complaint of some kind to get you deleted from Google Blogger. Now you're like totally a PEER of PZ!
Posted by: HalfMooner | April 28, 2008 2:57 PM
I guess viruses and insightful social commentary are okay...
but could we have more pictures of Arnold?
kthxbye
John
Posted by: John Swindle | April 28, 2008 3:02 PM
First off, great to see you've found a new home, Abbie.
Second, I keep getting a 404 when trying to subscribe to the new rss feed (both the atom and the rss2 one).
Posted by: Sven | April 28, 2008 3:08 PM
So ... any news on why the one at Blogger was deleted? Enquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: ndt | April 28, 2008 3:28 PM
Welcome to your new home! It gets (almost) all my favorite blogs in one place.
And I don't even mind the dearth of apostrophes.
Posted by: Susan Brassfield Cogan | April 28, 2008 3:30 PM
Glad you're back online. I had linked to several of your posts. Once they're resuscitated, I'll update my posts.
Let us know why Gøøgle sacked your bløg.
Posted by: wheatdogg | April 28, 2008 3:48 PM
Sorry. Those are supposed to be o's with slashes. On my browser they came out looking like A's.
Posted by: wheatdogg | April 28, 2008 3:50 PM
I for one welcome the insertion of ERV into ScienceBlogs.
Here's to ya', kid!
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | April 28, 2008 3:56 PM
So, my bookmark for you has changed from "BERV" to "Sberv".
Posted by: Pip R. Lagenta | April 28, 2008 4:00 PM
Nice pic of Ah-nold chewing up stuff (your entire bed? his entire bed? several unluckly Care Bears? Dembski brand cardigans? the stuffing from Premise Media's strawmen?).
Glad you're not attached to possessions per your pix caption above.
Hmm...
Imagine no possessions
Its (it's?) easy if you try
Oops.. didn't someone else do this sort of copyright infringement recently? What was the name Expunged? Excruciating? Excremental? Emunction? Ex post facto? Something like that. Some guy named Swine or something hosted it I think.
Now if only a new ScienceBlogger were good at detecting (TM) this sort of plagiarism.
I just can't think of who is that good at it, nope :)
(as I said in your "new readers" post, good to see you alive and blogging; the DI gets no rest..)
Posted by: szqc | April 28, 2008 4:14 PM
YAY! ERV on SciencenBlog - life is good.
Posted by: foxfire | April 28, 2008 4:31 PM
Hurray! It's about time you made the move to SciBlogs.
Posted by: Sam L. | April 28, 2008 4:52 PM
Blimey! The original ERV blog is restored. Hooray!
Posted by: Damien Trotter | April 28, 2008 5:06 PM
LOL...such behavior is not limited to pit bulls, by any means. Katie our beloved-but-dumb-as-a-log lab mix did that to the interior of our car when we left her there for about a half hour one evening while we were in the store...
Posted by: BruceJ | April 28, 2008 5:08 PM
Congratulations on the move.
Did you know your old blog is up and working now? Sorry if this is redundant to another post, I didn't take time to read them all.
Posted by: Bifrost | April 28, 2008 5:31 PM
ERV,
welcome. Oddly enough, my old posts got chomped by Blogger too. I blame the creationists. Or gay marriage [/snark]
Posted by: Mike the Mad Biologist | April 28, 2008 5:48 PM
ERV and Genomicron are dead. Long live ERV and Genomicron!
Posted by: TR Gregory | April 28, 2008 6:11 PM
See, did I not warn you on your old blog just how vicious pit bulls are?? First it's your furnitre, then....
Anyway, a mutual friend has found a new use for Ben Stein...
Posted by: Reynold Hall | April 28, 2008 6:40 PM
Welcome back Abbie !!
Had a WTF moment there yesterday for a little while.....
Looks more professional here too !!
Posted by: clinteas | April 28, 2008 7:03 PM
Sorry Abbie. It looks like my comments (sea level stuff and weird science) were the last to make it onto ERV before its destruction. I hope the same fate doesnt befall you here. (Please do let us know if you ever hear what happened and why. As you know Id just started up a blog at blogspot. If my response to you was so toxic, I expect I should get myself moved elsewhere soon.)
In my last comments at erv-blogspost there were several apostrophes. Im taking no risks of apostrophe-induced toxiciy here. Ill have to be careful, though.
Posted by: penguindreams | April 28, 2008 7:06 PM
Yay! This is like the best ever!
I do hope that Seed don't mind the smell of roast creationist, in the morning. ERV sure does throw a big BBQ.
Glad to see you made it, anyway. :)
Posted by: Damian | April 28, 2008 7:30 PM
I found you via Pharyngula. It seems Google did some housecleaning recently. A site I write for had their adsense account revoked and G refused to pay them a penny of what was earned. Something about the citizen journalism site being bad for their advertisers...
At least you weren't alone in the mess...
Posted by: Alicia P | April 28, 2008 8:19 PM
Hi Abbie...
Glad to see you made it to ScienceBlogs. I have been following your blog for several months, ever since I first read about you on Pharyngula. I like your style.
Looks like Arnold had a lot of fun making that mess. The worst my dog ever did was eat the door mat.
Posted by: Mobius | April 28, 2008 8:42 PM
I don't even know how to back up my blogger posts.
Posted by: Monado in Toronto again | April 28, 2008 9:00 PM
Monado!
Ive just been going to my 'month' pages and saving them as 'Web page complete'-- So it makes a months worth of posts like it would look if you were working on them offline.
Posted by: ERV | April 28, 2008 10:03 PM
So I would like to add your blog to my Google Reader, but I can't seem to find it. If you happen to stick either an Add to Google link on your page or if you could send me your feed url, that would rock! Thank you! I look forward to checkin' out your blog stylings :)
Posted by: Natalie | April 29, 2008 12:33 AM
ERV's AAAAALLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Bueno excellente! Wonderful to see one of my favorite bloggers in my favorite place in the entire universe! And congrats on getting your old posts recovered!
No one can keep a good Abbie down!
Posted by: Dana Hunter | April 29, 2008 5:19 AM
I guess my comment didn't survive review, but congrats.
Posted by: TR Gregory | April 29, 2008 7:38 AM
Welcome to SciBorgs, ERV.
On backing up blog pages, or websites in general, I would recommend using a crawler/website mirrorer like HTTrack. Its freely download-able and GPL'd. You give it a list of root-pages which it downloads, then searches within them for links to other pages, which it then downloads and so on. Each such link is checked against a set of specified criteria (within a domain, at a 'link-depth' lesser than a specified number, containing or not-containing a specified keyword, etc.) before downloading so as to ensure that you don't end up with the whole intarweb on your hard-disk. It saves all these pages in a directory structure of your specification, and re-writes links to images, other pages in you site, etc. so that they still work, while leaving external links unchanged.
My experience is that while it mostly does what you ask of it, its best to check your downloads for completeness, as it sometimes tends to miss some links that you wanted. You also need to keep an eye on it while it does its thing, lest you messed up the command codes and inadvertently asked it to download the whole internet.
At any rate, even with its imperfections, its far more convenient than saving each page separately.
Posted by: Stagyar zil Doggo | April 29, 2008 7:43 AM
LOL! Sorry, TR! Learning how to use a new program-- strange formatting, TR in junk comments, good times :P
Congrats to you too!
Posted by: ERV | April 29, 2008 8:12 AM
It actually showed up, but I messed up the link to the new Genomicron:
http://www.scientificblogging.com/genomicron
Posted by: TR Gregory | April 29, 2008 11:00 AM
Yay, you have been assimilated at last, welcome Abbie :) Personally, I am glad you have been assimilated as I gave up commenting on your previous blog because it always refused my login when you had to stop open comments. Anyway, great to have the majority of my favourite bloggers in one place.
Posted by: John Phillips, FCD | April 30, 2008 12:41 PM
Hello, Abbie! Sorry about your mishap with Blogger. I created a Blogger account so I could comment on your blogs there, but I guess I won't be needing it anymore.
Here are my own blogs:
http://circleh.wordpress.com/
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/rss.html/482127911//
And here's my Evolution Education group on Care2:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/evolution_education
I would be honored to have you posting comments at any one of those places!
Posted by: Dale Husband | April 30, 2008 5:24 PM