Email isn't a problem, because I have a convoluted forwarding scheme where, by design, I end up with three copies of all email sent to me. The blog shouldn't have been a problem either, because it's automatically backed up via email. I noted with some humility, however, that these particular emails were only being sent to one of my IMAP accounts - the account that had just lost the last two weeks of email.

It was eventually fixed by a poor Jumba customer rep working Good Friday.

I did find a backup, though, after rummaging around in my laptop's IMAP cache while not connected to the Internet, but it was a few days old and missing the most recent post (before this one). I've since ratcheted up my backup scheme a notch.

I suppose a few seasoned web developers are raising their eyebrows wondering how I managed to find a rock large enough to hide under for the last five years, or for however long this sort of thing has been going on. This is a new thing for me. My brain associates "using Linux" with either GNOME, KDE or the command-line, the first two of which are (generally) irrelevant if you're accessing the computer remotely. Nostalgia be damned. I have seen the light, and it is good.