Cool dude is practically my middle name 

Unfortunately the extra stuff for Blogs is completely gone, as far as we know. You'll just have to make use of the 'about this blog' section as best we can

You can do some pretty nifty stuff with pictures now, though. You can make one a banner for your blog that drops down into a full photo when it's clicked on, and give each blog entry it's own banner too, which is nice.

--Akaku: Master of Flight

It's not so much about restoring things, I just had a lot of curated things there that I spent years working on. Not that any of it matters, but it was just nice fun things to do. Doesn't actually matter, plus I remember the wayback machine [unfortunately] stored a lot so I may be able to recover a bit if I put the effort in to find it.

There are some neat new features that's for sure, I would have loved them at the time.