1. Decide you want to tidy up your blog behind the scenes.

2. Go into your webspace and move a few files around.

3. Discover that your blog doesn’t load anymore.

4. Panic for a while. Drink some whisky. Panic some more, except bumping into things while you’re doing it.

5. Decide that actually, yes, it’s just what you need for a Fresh Start. (This is called Denial, I believe).

6. Go in and wipe your blog installation.

7. About 20 minutes later, have a friend send you an e-mail explaining why your blog actually isn’t missing, it’s just a slight file table issue, easily corrected. You know, if you haven’t just done anything criminally stupid like actually wipe your blog.

8. Drink the rest of the whisky you started drinking earlier. Shout at the wall, asking it questions about your life. Play a mindless computer game where you blow things up. Put Rage Against The Machine on your music system, and turn it up enough to make the wall vibrate. Rock back and forth, screaming.

9. After a while, feel calmer and generally more sanguine about life.

10. Suffer an enormous hangover.

If you follow these 10 easy steps, I guarantee your blog will be ruined, and it will take you with it.