i hoard therefore i am

i am a hoarder

i am a broad hoarder - anything from books, papers, birthday cards and plastic bags to t-shirts, laddered tights, telephones, defunct PDAs and car stero systems.

i virtually hoard as well. i save every draft of document i work on and while my e-mail at work is more organized at home my in-box and archived in-boxes are overflowing.

every now and again i do do something about it and i'd say i have most of it under control but equally frequently (or so it seems) i am reminded just why i have developed this tendency....

just in case
aka because you never know when you'll need things.

well that just happened.

spurred on by an otherwise enlightening and practical workshop on internet media given by currently jerusalem-based blogger supreme mobius, i installed haloscan comments on this blog in order to make the whole commenting process a nicer experience for all of us. but just as i was kvelling at how quickly i'd done it, as in every vh1 behind the music documentary... tragedy struck.

it seems i have lost all my comments. all those wonderful ego boosting snippets left by passing readers. those brief annotations that in some warped life accounting method total to say yay you're good!

all gone - alas - alack
...online that it is

for the revenge of the hoarders is nigh! thankfully all my comments are sent to me by e-mail as well. (a function i was beginning to question and even ... deep breath... was thinking of stopping.) so while i will have to deal with the fact that newcomers to my blog may be puzzled if not downright conned to thinking i have no feedback. I will have the proof otherwise.

phew