Hey Janet, sorry about the posting problems. To file under the "it's a pain but it works" category of blogging: right before submitting the post click on the "disable rich-text" button, then highlight and copy all of the html. Then, if something does happen to the post, you can immediately paste it back into the submission field or into Notepad and nothing gets lost.

Of course this comes after you need it, but it's good for future posts as well.

... this progressive considered the following possibilities:

The spiritual: There really is a God, who disapproved of my post, and smote it.

The conspiratorial: A very clever hacker, who works for either Focus on the Family or the Alliance Defense Fund, created some sort of worm or other malicious computer program that wiped out my posts when I tried to link to their websites.

The self-doubting: I am doing it all wrong! I will never be able to post blog entries with lots of embedded links... maybe men really DO have more aptitude for technology.