I was putting the finishing touches on the blog entry that was supposed to go here when I finally opened up one link too many and the system froze, taking down not only the web browser I was using to post, but the copy buffer containing the full copy of the text as well.

It's my own fault; I had been doing some game-playing before I started writing, so I was still in Microsoft Windows, and I chose to start writing from there rather than rebooting to do it. I know better.

Still, I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate Microsoft. You'd think that just killing an application wouldn't kill the copy buffer for the OS. I had a full copy in memory from a few minutes prior, and could have recovered if I had been allowed to paste into Notepad or anything else. Anything I tried to paste into froze as well. So much for my simple attempt to safeguard myself against exactly this. Lesson for the day: if it's not completely flushed to disk, it might as well not exist.

It's this kind of thing that leaves you completely disheartened about writing. Two and a half hours represents about a third of my daily free time.