A hastily handled upgrade to WordPress 1.5.3 resulted in my losing my sidebar, and my static page content. By the time I realized that the wp-content folder was in the deletion queue it was too late :(

I managed to rescue some of it, but since I’d customized a fair bit, some time will be required to figure out what is wrong now. The rebuilding process will have to wait for a few hours. I have other things going on at the moment.

Lessons learned: Backup, backup, backup …