Recently I forgot to save a blog I was writing in draft as I went along, I opened another window (or so I thought) to find a blog that I wanted to highlight in my post. Well, you guessed it, I went back and my post was gone. (Now I know Brad Andersohn warned me this was going to happen...)
So from here on out I am going to be more diligent (or as was suggested to me, I will write long posts in WORD first so I don't lose them.). so hopefully I learned my lesson in a fairly painless way...though I will go on record saying that my first post was quite a bit better than the one I ended up rewriting...
Well I was irritated of course...but my thoughts immediately went back to a story I heard when I lived in Venezuela...believe me it always keeps me from getting too upset in a situation like this as I realize it could be worse.
I lived in Caracas for four years and had a friend who was a college professor there. She did research and used mice for her studies. She had them in three or four different groups, you know, control groups etc so should could compare what was happening, how their cells were changing or not changing etc.
Well the group had to be moved to another building and after all was said and done...you guessed it, the mover, to simplify the move, combined all of the mice in one cage for transport!
She was devastated. Three full years of research was gone. When she was relating the story to me a year had passed since "the incident" but you could still tell what the loss meant to her, both personally and professionally.
So, yes I lost 20 minutes of typing, but hey...it could have been a lot worse.
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Celeste, use Firefox and you should then be able to use the "Go Back" button and it will be there. They say Firefox is the best browser for blogging. It's very frustrating to loose your work!