No, I'm not dead.

My apologies for not being around for so long.

    Remember I said that I was learning a computer language or two?

    Well two turned into four and then on the fifth, I won't name it for fear of libel action, I dragged down so much filth, meaning trojans, and other assorted worms, that it's taken me weeks to clean my system of all the garbage.

    The moral of the story is, that it you're going to download mountains of free stuff, then make sure you back up your system to an external drive before doing so. It's a pity I didn't heed the advice of several thousand blogs, articles and other, much wiser people than I who have been saying as much for years.

    But all is not lost and now, armed with a plethora of new knowledge, my new novel can begin.

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   The much more intelligent among you (although that wouldn't be too hard), will be able to read this simple message in a moment or two.

    See you soon.