Saturday, April 14, 2012

Throwing it all away with one keystroke

Ah, technology!

I just spent 45 minutes typing an entry and deleted it all with one master keystroke.  I hit Backspace--the button directly effing below Delete to get rid of a superfluous picture I'd added.

Instead of deleting the picture, I went back the previous (ie. login) page on my browser.  The blogspot site doesn't save drafts, apparently, so I lost the entire page.

Oh well.

Thomas Carlyle wrote his opus The French Revolution and loaned it to John Stuart Mill for a look-see.  Stuart Mill's maid mistook it for trash and threw the only draft copy onto the fire.  Carlyle duly rewrote it, after a few choice curse words and a night of heavy drinking I suspect.

I'm trying to swear less and have never been much of a drinker, so I'll just get to retyping while the kids are asleep.

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