I'm not sure exactly when the database went kaboom, as I just noticed it last night. Anyway, high score tables on and after Wednesday are gone. Sorry.
I probably ought to work up some kind of backup solution, dumping the database to a text file from time to time.
If anyone's familiar enough with SQL to give me an easy solution to these, I'd appreciate. . .
A) Determining if the DB is down so I can tell the user "sorry, come back tomorrow".
2) Saving the data to a text file so that I can resurrect a database that goes down.
III) Coming up with a consistent way of numbering lists in blog entries.
I'm not a SQL guru, but i'll venture a couple guesses.
What are you using for software? Your last entry mentioned MySQL (and glancing at the last few entries I didn't see much about the project) - if so mysqldump is one way to backup your database.
For determining if the DB is down, in PHP the function mysql_connect will return false if it is unable to connect. I'm sure other languages have some way of doing this.
EDIT: oops, didn't notice that there were links to the games at the top of your journal - so forget about the PHP advice. Sorry I don't know much about flash