If Time Is Money...

then Google's cache just saved me mucho cash. I met a client tonight to demonstrate how to use SAFARI to edit his new site. The site uses Greek characters, and unfortunately, it seems that Greek doesn't transmit through forms very well in Internet Explorer (just as it does not work well in Apple Safari). By the time I noticed this, we had tinkered with one of the largest pages and all of the Greek had turned to gibberish.

I figured that was no problem, I'd just pull out the weekly backup. The weekly backup includes a MySQL dump of each client's MySQL data. Unfortunately, this backup too showed many of the exotic characters as gibberish — maybe my text editor doesn't support the characters, I'm not sure. At any rate, the backup wasn't going to do the trick.

Now what? Then it dawns on me. The site had recently been picked up by Google. If I just Google the URL, I can grab Google's cached copy of the page and restore it. So I did just that, and after about an hour of fruitless struggle, I was able to solve the problem with a quick cut-and-paste action. Thanks, Google!