I'm not sure what subforum this should go in, so feel free to move it need be. I'm having some problems with my incredibly crappy hosting service, that shall not be named, and my site is currently down. I have everything backed up, thankfully, but in the meantime, none of my work is currently online. I was wondering if there was some way to extract my posts to the news module in plain text form from my MySQL database so that I can post them to a free blogging service or something similar so that I have at least some web presence until this problem is resolved?

Go into phpmyadmin (hopefully your host won't be so crappy that it doesn't use this) and search for a few words that are in the contents of one of your news posts. You can then find out the place in the DB which stores these posts. Fiddle around with phpmyadmin and you should be able to copy and paste each one of them directly from there.

Hope this helps...