Yesterday after breakfast at the Sultanhan hotel, while Janel busied herself with email from the office, I wrote a blog entry. It was a nice long blog about our day in the Galata district. My head was a little pressured from one too many Rakis from the night before. But I was happy with my entry, and looking forward to publishing it, and showing my best zingers to Janel. I hit “save,” and was shown a message “UNAUTHROIZED ACCESS.” Backspace. Where’s my text? This bleepity bleep travelblog site had timed out, while I left my computer on over night, and now had just dumped all my work in to the ether. It couldn’t be recovered by backspace, in history, in auto saved text…it was gone. Steam started coming out my ears! An hour of work down
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