The server that the Pickly Picky Game was on crashed this morning (network card failed). I restarted the database server (ZEO) this afternoon, but the database seems to have reverted to its state as of a few weeks ago -- that is, all the additions since we started the game proper are missing. When Adrian gets back to the office we are going to see if there is a better copy of the database on the recent backup of the computer.

I can't tell youy how distressed I am at the thought that all of those wonderful pictures might be lost for good. Let's hope we can repair this.

If I cannot rely on ZEO/ZODB to keep the data straight then I need to rethink (again) the foundations of the Picky Picky Game web application -- storing the data as plain old files, perhaps.