Blogsend

I discovered while digging in my settings for this blog that I can have the new postings emailed to anyone's inbox each time I publish. If you'd rather recieve heymister in your inbox when I publish rather than navigate to this page sporadically, I'd be more than happy to add you to the send list. You can't add yourself, so If you'd like to be added, just send me a quick email. You don't even have to write anything in the email, but make the subject "Add to BlogSend" and I'll add you.

wipeout

I am not angry or depressed or sad, but I am deflated and mystified. 127 posts, and nearly a year and a half of work, gone, down the toilet, in a flash. What happened? Where did they go? Why is my blog now called xyz? Why am I not hearing any apologies or explanations from the Blogger/Google camp?

It is when things like this happen that I lose faith in digital media, and I realize how fragile the foundation of technology is that our civilization is being built upon. I received my first Hotmail account in the mid-nineties, when the internet was still a toddler and webmail was in it's infancy, and have had the contents of my email deleted three times (plus once or twice due to inactivity, but that's something else). Twice at Yahoo! mail. Never at Gmail. I've accidentally crashed my hard drive once, losing over a year's worth of digital images. My heart has grown a hard and tough exterior to these losses, at once knowing the pain of past loss, and knowing it will happen again.

Loss has a way of taking out the trash and making things fresh again, so I'm going to take the positive road on this and make a fresh start. It's nearly spring, anyway, the season of new beginnings. Here's to blog posting #1 on the all-new heymister.blogspot.com. All new? Maybe not all new. Baby steps. I need to post more often, let's start with that.