I've lost blogs before, and it's been painful. I've pushed "back" on my browser at the wrong time. I've had the "Preview & Post" button lead to a broken page error. Usually I get pissed and remind myself to always copy the blog before submitting.
This morning I typed up a blog. I'd love to say it was hilarious and insightful and a can't-miss, but it was pretty pedestrian (about my thoughts on the bus this morning). I just need to start writing again and I wanted to start somewhere.
I typed it up. I pushed "Preview & Post" and then I got some sort of premonition that something bad was going to happen. I selected all from within the blog and had to copy it... I should have done a Ctrl-C number to copy, but instead I right-clicked and went to select "Copy" from the popup menu...
Usually right-clicking is safer. Ctrl-C doesn't give much feedback that you've successfully copied the content to your clipboard, but if you select "Copy", you're golden.
Unless, of course, "Copy" is not an option.
MySpace's stupid rich text editor seems to embed a different HTML page into the window, rather than text. This leads to an alternate set of options popping up, and one that does not include "Copy". So I left-clicked to get out of the popup menu, which meant I no longer had my blog selected, and I hit "Ctrl-A" to select all...
And then the next page finally kicked in. The page could not load. I knew I was screwed.
"Back" on the browser (my only option at that point) led to a blank blog entry page. A quick check on my blog confirmed that the new one had not been saved. The "Bus Thoughts" blog was gone forever.
RIP, Bus Thoughts blog.
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