With the news of yesterday still hanging over us, I know I should be focusing on my family and making sure that I get them through this.

However, I’ve run through this ‘what if’ in my mind so many times and I know what I need to do first…
Check in with all the team. Make sure they are all ok and have the support they need.
Get whatever I can in the way of backups from the API in case it gets shut down before the community find out what’s happening.

So I’m sitting here, staring at the screen scraping all the data I can, hoping I never need to use it, but knowing I need to do this. There are 5 million entries on Blipfoto, each one representing a day in someone’s life; children growing up day by day, parents growing older and life being lived. Priceless memories which someone has just put a price on.

I can’t save it all, but I have to try and do what I can. I believe in what we were doing at Blipfoto, I believe in the vision. So much so that no liquidation or change in employment can change what I know is the right things to be doing.

I might get in trouble for this, but I’ve made sure it’s all above board using the public API that anyone could use. But I have to try.

In years I’ll look back on today in the knowledge that my own family is OK and happy that I did the right things, making sure the staff were ok and that we saved what we could for the users on the site (whether it’ll be needed or not).

I’ll breath a sigh of relieve when this finally goes public and the servers are still running. Then people can grab their own backups. But if that day never comes, at least I’ve saved what I could.

But for the next few days, I just hope my boys understand why I can’t give them the time they need.