Thursday, July 26, 2007
The peril of autosave |6:58 AM| Blogger now automatically saves blog entries as you write them, in case something goes terribly wrong and you lose your 900 word screed on the latest videogame cheats or what have you.
This is a good, good thing, seeing as more than once I had an entry eaten by some error message. Yes, I did get into the habit of copying entries to the clipboard or writing them in word, but sometimes Word crashes, or the copy function didn't work and waah waah waah.
However, there's a certain (goal? Finality? Deadline?) in that "publish" or "save as draft" button. Now I've got piles of half written entries dealing with topics like "How I broke my car, my sister, and the printf php command", "Pitching short movie ideas for honest-to-god money" or "A breakdown of profanity and other words used by Wonderlust and I" (The curse word usage, by the way, ranks out like this for the past 3 years: Fuck 5101, Shit 3170, Damn 1026, Curses 15, Goddammit 509, Crap 221, Asshole/Ass 323, Boob, boob weasels, shitweasels 27.)
I will endeavor to finish those entries for the benefit of all.
I may have already posted this link. A dude goes http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/07/xfinger
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The peril of autosave |6:58 AM| Blogger now automatically saves blog entries as you write them, in case something goes terribly wrong and you lose your 900 word screed on the latest videogame cheats or what have you.
This is a good, good thing, seeing as more than once I had an entry eaten by some error message. Yes, I did get into the habit of copying entries to the clipboard or writing them in word, but sometimes Word crashes, or the copy function didn't work and waah waah waah.
However, there's a certain (goal? Finality? Deadline?) in that "publish" or "save as draft" button. Now I've got piles of half written entries dealing with topics like "How I broke my car, my sister, and the printf php command", "Pitching short movie ideas for honest-to-god money" or "A breakdown of profanity and other words used by Wonderlust and I" (The curse word usage, by the way, ranks out like this for the past 3 years: Fuck 5101, Shit 3170, Damn 1026, Curses 15, Goddammit 509, Crap 221, Asshole/Ass 323, Boob, boob weasels, shitweasels 27.)
I will endeavor to finish those entries for the benefit of all.
I may have already posted this link. A dude goes http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/07/xfinger
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