ergophobe - 2:17 pm on Dec 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

>>ADSL link had dropped but had later resumed

I wonder why that happened. Is WP storing the IP in the session data and checking that the current IP is the same as the login IP (and you're generating new dynamic IPs every time you get a connection)? Because of my situation, I'm often dropping connections and reconnecting and as long as I don't delete the session cookie, I stay logged in.

Also, at least for 2.6, WP is set to save posts as drafts every minute. So I can't actually lose more than that. I suppose that depends on allowing an xmlrpc connection, which presents its own risks and which, I believe, WP now has off by default.

Personally, I usually write long posts in Notepad++ or Dreamweaver and then paste them into WP.