I have just lost a 1400 word blog entry. The second 1400 word blog entry lost in two days. And it was a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
I am going to hunt down Mister WordPress, and I am going to pull his toenails off one by one while forcing him to listen to Mariah Carey Baroque Classical arrangements, and then I am going to feed him slowly through a manual pencil sharpener, podcasting the audio of the squishy-crunching noises.
raincoaster 
there’s a trick to it. write your blog in a text editor, save it on your computer and then put it on the web. the blog host can lose a zillion entries, but you’ll still have your copy, thus saving you time and tooth gnashing.
Thanks, that’s a helpful suggestion, but there are a couple of reasons I’m not going to take your advice.
Would that cure the problem? Well yes and no. It doesn’t save my pictures or my formatting, and I have tried it and noticed that what I write in Word is quite different from what I write in the blog editor. I’d like to keep the two kinds of writing separate. I mean, what I write here is quite different from what I wrote on Diary-x, and the format is part of that. It causes me to write differently, and I enjoy it.
The actual problem with WordPress escalated. For the past 36 hours or so I have been unable to post at all. That problem seems to have cleared up, but strange problems keep popping up and vanishing without a word. If they’re gonna shut down the formatting for a day or so to move servers or something, I wish they’d let us know.
I think what I’ll do is write in the blog editor, then copy and paste into Word. That way the process of writing is the same, but I do get a saved copy. And after the Diary-X disaster, I know that I can only trust MYSELF to keep a copy. I still cannot believe Stephen had it set to back up only the TECHNICAL SPECS, not the content! Not to mention that by making all of Diary-x invisible to Google, he ensured that we would not be able to easily find archived copies when the whole thing went down.
not that I’m bitter. Oh, FUCK no. Perish the thought!