Normally I do, however, this weekend I was unprepared for the Blogger outage. If you didn't hear the news: what should have been routine maintenance for Google's Blogger service ended up locking out users and removing users' data for more than 36 hours. Google had worked over the weekend to restore lost comments and posts by rolling back data in their environment. My post however, which was scheduled for today, was one of the casualties of their catastrophic human error.
Unfortunately for me, my post has forever been lost in cyberspace. Perhaps I will rewrite it. Perhaps I will restore it to its full glory. Just not tonight. I'm too distraught at the thought of having to re-invent, re-edit, and re-post something that may never live up to the original. I suppose that's why we wear oven mitts: so we never burn our hands again. I will be sure to be more diligent in the future backing up my data.
I love the fact that Blogger is free, but the real lesson here is you get what you pay for.
When I first learned of the Megaminx puzzle, I knew I had to get one. But they were pretty expensive (and I wasn't sure I would be able to solve one anyway.) Why invest in a quality Megaminx? I thought I would try to solve it once and then be done with it. So I sent for a cheap one from China.
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| This is a cheap Megaminx |
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| This is a Megaminx Explosion |
It's the same with writing. I don't get embarrassed with typos or grammatical errors...ever writer makes those. But I am embarrassed that my original writing was lost, never to be restored. I did not have a backup plan. I can only hope that when I do rewrite my post it will be better than the original.
Has anything like this ever happened to you?
I sympathize with you, Jason. I also had a similar experience. When I used to compose music, I saved all my music/recordings on my computer. You guessed it, my computer crashed without leaving a trace of that hard work. Lesson learned - I have 2-3 backup systems of everything on my computer, now.
ReplyDeleteM.E.,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the loss of your hard work. I guess that's what makes life such an adventure. You never know when you may lose something you cherish most. I do believe that the emotion from that very loss will come through the next time when you create something new. It still stinks, though!