Garrrrrrggggh

March 23rd, 2007 by Morgan J. Locke

I just spent two and a half hours on a post and Word Press destroyed it.  I am pissed.

I’ll maybe post again later, once I’ve calmed down.

Posted in Daily Life, Food, Morgan, Science | 11 Comments »

11 Responses

1. LDA Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 8:24 am

   Back in the day when operating systems and word processing apps weren’t overly reliable, I’d frequently lose an hour’s worth of work in a system crash. Hearing my expletives, a s/w engineer I worked with had an annoying habit of saying (every frakking time), “Guess it wasn’t very important; you didn’t save it.” Implying I should have been saving it often as I went along. I feel your pain, I really do.

2. Steven Gould Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 9:30 am

   What’s odd is Morgan was saving it. The new wordpress even has an auto save. The problem is, WordPress corrupted it, not lost it. It took what it had and messed it up.

3. Morgan J. Locke Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

   What Steve said. WordPress sometimes messes up links — but never this badly. It dumped copies of the first link in at the beginning of every subsequent paragraph, and deleted the text between two different versions of it. Yes, I could have done the work in a separate word processing file, but then what is the point of having an editor on the website?

   Programmers have an obligation to make their code stable and functional. Not blame the user when they screw up.

4. Madeleine Robins Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

   Soothing. Soothing.

5. LDA Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

   Wow! That’s some scary intermittent flaw.

6. Steven Gould Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

   As I’ve never seen this happen in all the 95 posts I’ve to date, I’m wondering if there was something running on Morg’s computer that generated this interference.

7. Morgan J. Locke Says:
   March 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

   It always trashes my links. I have never had it wipe out major chunks of post before.

8. Alden Stradling Says:
   March 26th, 2007 at 6:18 am

   When I’m posting my lengthy diatribes, I always “select all” and copy it for safety on a regular basis. Browsers crash. And I almost never post without a copy in my copy buffer.

   This is because I was behaviorally conditioned under torture (using early webmail clients and forms when the Web Was New). Ctrl-A Ctrl-C is your new best friend.

   OK, that was the male response (“Fix the problem”). Now, the one you wanted –

   That sucks. I know how you feel. I always feel like I can never replace that lost stuff just the way it was. It’s sure not your fault – things like that need to get fixed. It’s just text – how hard could it be?

   I’m also disappointed I don’t get to read your post – sounds like you really put some care and thought into it (not that you normally don’t ).

9. Morgan J. Locke Says:
   March 26th, 2007 at 8:12 am

   Thanks, Alden. I’m glad you enjoy my posts…even my rants?? Heh.

   And yep (*sigh*), I should have saved to a backup file. I’ve worked with alpha and beta software, too, and as you and LDA point out, it makes life a lot easier. It’s just annoying to have to do that. WordPress isn’t beta software.

   (Gaarrrrrrgh!! Ahem.)

   Anyway, I’ve decided I *am* going to redo the post. It was on temptation and the brain, and it was fun.

10. Alden Stradling Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Even your rants. Intelligent rants are great conversation starters.

    I think WordPress is having a hard time recovering gracefully from hard-to-parse characters, from my own posting difficulties.

11. T.N. Says:
    March 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    Don’t worry, M.J.L.
    … I don’t have much else to say.