So apparently, a port scan attack somehow managed to wipe out most of the posts from the previous year. What a shame. However, I managed to get my M400 woes pages back. There is an online database of the Internet. It's called the Way Back Machine . I used to be able to view my previous websites on this server, but opted instead to use their robots.txt control feature to remove my sites from the archive.
There are probably other Internet archive sites that aren't so well publicized. And these ones may keep content on their servers for eternity. The web truly does live forever.