Now I know that this might sound like a really lame excuse...(well, it is lame, but that doesn't mean that it's not true).

Its been a long time since my last blog.  

'Oh, Chris - Why is that?' I hear you all asking.

 Well, of course the school term ended in July and my (mildly) successful experiment in student blogging had already come to an end. Then there was the summer holiday - 4 weeks in Thailand - no point going online when you are on a tropical paradise island - just lots of R & R - reading and rum. I’ll blog all about that another time.

 Anyway, back to the main point. So recently I wanted to have a look at my blog, maybe add something to fill my dull afternoons of unemployment. I’ll explain that too another time if you are unlucky.

 Right – so what was the address of my blog? Oh dear – I’d completely forgotten. I had to google what I could remember I’d written to eventually find it. Hurrah! Thank goodness for search engines – I found my lovely blog!

 Now what was the sign in address? My ‘Spaces ID’ or whatever they call it. Hmmm. Try this one? Nope. Try another … That doesn’t work either.

 Oh, drat. But wait! I know what to do. I’ll click the ‘help’ button.

 Now I expected a doctor to suddenly arrive at my house and give me a brain scan or something like that, but in fact all that happened was that I was re-directed to a web page where I could send a message to those nice people at MSN.

 Which I did.

 Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, they said that if I had forgotten both the sign in name and the password there was nothing that they could do. I was up sh|t creek without a paddle – without a packed lunch or a flask of tea would be a more accurate description of the situation.

 That was months ago. I just left it at that. No point in messing about trying every single combination of email addresses and passwords. That would be just plain silly.

 This morning I woke up early, very early, and since I couldn’t sleep any more I switched on the computer and thought I’d try one more time to get that damn blog open. I tried every single combination of email addresses and passwords (plain silly?) until finally… I got it.

 For all those geeks who want to know how I cracked the ‘unbreakable’ MSN code, here’s my secret. I’d confused a .com for a .co.uk.

 Was it Alfred Einstein who once said ‘Genius is a fine line between dumb-ass stupid and loop-de-loop insane.’ Or was that Freud?