Using mv instead of cp to transfer files from your WordPress backup to your new install is not a good idea. Especially when you hose the new install, and the file you copied over was the config file. Then I deleted the backup of the database in my frustration… Go me!
So now I have yet another new blog, let’s see how this one lasts, ‘eh?
faaaaail
LOLFAIL
Similar to what happened to me… I haven’t set up my blog again because it depresses me so much that I lost the only written records of what I did when I was in Japan.