It’s been a while since I put anything up on this blog. And I have a perfectly good series of events to explain it all. No, really, I do.

Right after Thanksgiving my laptop, the principal one used for development and blog writing, decided it was time to eat itself. I woke up to find Windows File Protection going crazy and that all of my program files had been deleted, not to mention most of the Windows OS files itself. Nice work there, WFP.

So I ended up doing a full system restore from the factory. Luckily all of my other work was backed up in triple redundancy off-site, so I was only down for a little while. Then came the rest of my issues.

Out of all the backups, I hadn’t saved my blog posts. Generally I write out some of my blog posts offline as plain text (call me old-fashioned) then put them into the editor when I’m ready to format them and publish. A few months’ worth of film reviews had gone POOF.

Getting back onto the blog to write a post meant trying to remember my password. Oh well, I tried umpteen (that’s a few thousand) combinations but to no avail. Eventually (read: a few months later) and I finally remembered the password and was able to get in.

In the end the lesson I think is this: keep a cool head about you and you can get through just about any crisis. Except for that crisis involving the end of the world, nuclear bombs falling, or alien invaders bent on destroying humanity. Then you can panic if you like.

So for now, I’m going to be working on recovering those blog posts from my wetware memory and posting them up here as soon as I can and we’ll be back on to our regularly scheduled broadcasts.

In the meantime, if you want to check out some of the columns that I’ve written for Write Anything, you can find them all neatly organized on this page here.

Note: This is not an April Fool’s joke.