I have been a bad blogger

That was almost a whole month without me posting anything here, or on Flickr. To be fair, there were some fairly extenuating circumstances which led to my absence: to wit, my hard drive failed and, lo, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Actually, mostly there was a lot of facepalm action as I berated myself for not backing-up the data properly. The fact that the hard drive flaked out the very day before I had timetabled some overdue backing-up may have been highly ironic, but it was ultimately neither here nor there in the great scheme of Things That Involve Actually Maintaining All The Work You've Created.

Fortunately, some of my best friends are geeks, and I mean that in the highest praise, as the sterling efforts of one such geeky friend recovered most of the data for me. Having resigned myself to losing everything, getting anything back at all was like a magical bonus, so hooray for that!

The only problem afterwards was that I'd lost my blogging momentum and have been suffering from a distinct lack of inspiration for anything to write about, which is pretty stupid, given some of the interesting things I got up to during my internet hiatus. Which I would summarise for the twenty people who actually read this thing, except that at the moment my internets seem to be broken and none of the sites I wanted to link to are loading. And I'm already feeling fed up today (as I've been whinging about on Twitter, which is the only site that seems to be loading for me), so I'm going to cut my losses while I can and just post this damn thing as is before the blogging hiatus gets dragged out even more.

Oh, I did update my sidebar today (which, for the benefit of people reading via RSS or Livejournal, is here), so there are now tons of links for you to peruse if you've run out of anything to look at. Or if I don't update for a while again.