I just relearned one of renowned author Jerry Pournelle's primary rules for writers:
Save your work early and save your work often.
Although that dictum is second nature to me when using my primary writing environment, Microsoft Word for Windows, whose Alt-F, S keystrokes to File (menu), Save work in progress to a file is completely reflex to me now, Radio Userland's web-based editing environment has no equivalent. So you pile in the text, and your only "Save" function is to "Post" and/or "Publish"... which I wasn't ready to do until I was done composing. Work in progress is in total peril.
Radio Userland's web-based editor just glitched (unbidden and unexpectedly, it brought up a status screen of most accessed Radio Userland weblog pages) and my carefully crafted hours of work in the editing window - links, highlights, and prose from a week's worth news relevant to Broadband Wireless Internet Access are all gone for the moment. This is definitely a "fool me twice, shame on me" moment. Radio Userland is a great environment for publishing a weblog, but it's moments like this that very forcefully remind me that by no stretch of the imagination should Radio Userland be considered a finished product.
Sigh...
8:31:50 PM 
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