After arcane shenanigans involving mysql command line interface (I tricked WordPress into thinking my database was vintage 2.1.x and then let it re-run the upgrade) I have re-enabled the categories within SafeTinspector. And while this allows me to specify categories once again, it did not restore them. They are all lost.

    But now I fear that these nuggets of precious data, with entries such as “suck”, “foot”, “stench” and “tax accountancy”, will be lost to time and posterity alike. If you or any of your friends or relatives have unexpected pain, stiffening of the joints and/or arteries or come upon piles of unexplained moneys or excrement please let me know.

    I hope we all survive.

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    I upgraded WordPress and it destroyed the category list which was so carefully imported from Blogger. Well, good riddance, I say. The blogger import utility had converted all my Blogger “tags” to categories, which had resulted in hundreds of them. We start fresh, and hope that new efforts will not be so fleeting.