So I made it big mistake tonight. It wasn't on purpose - far from it in fact. I was editing the deploy.rb I use to put it on this blog (thank god for Capistrano) to upload some small admin-side fixes. I decided to also make a small change that would make the symbolic linking process for image directories work. Except, I got the wrong directory. I accidentally typed in the shortcut / variable for the actual (non linked) directory to the rm part of the routine. And so, now they're gone. You'll have to just ignore the lack of images for the moment till sometime after the twelfth when I can restore them.