Blog entry recovered from MySpace archive, first published Tuesday July 25, 2006.
Colour me surprised
Blimey! It worked. I thought for a moment that it hadn't - which would have been no worse than my expectations. But no, posting a blog recovers your profile contents (after a few minutes' delay). I guess all this pratting around is what you get for hosting a data centre server farm serving 90-odd million accounts on a toy operating system (Windows, in case you didn't know). A bit quirky, but there you are at least it retrieved the situation in the end.