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Oct. 3rd, 2005 04:03 pmThere are new updates at For The Dream and LongHairedWeirdo.
I'm upset today, because, due to a stupid mixup on my text editor, I lost my second essay on "what is rape?" and now I'll have to type it over again. The text editor was, for some stupid reason, saving things with a .dat extension. Well, it also makes backups, with a .bak extension. Neither extension will bring up a special icon in explorer for me, so when I see a bunch of .bak extensions for things that I've already finished, I just select and delete.
I'm sure you can all guess what happened, right? .dat and .bak just aren't dissimilar enough at icon size for me to realize what I'm doing. (And why would I save a .dat file anyway?)
The pain about this is, sure, I can reconstruct what I said, close enough, but this time, it's work, whereas last time it was creation, you know? Plus, I'm sure I hit one brilliant turn of phrase or another during the first writeup that I'll lose during the second.
I'm upset today, because, due to a stupid mixup on my text editor, I lost my second essay on "what is rape?" and now I'll have to type it over again. The text editor was, for some stupid reason, saving things with a .dat extension. Well, it also makes backups, with a .bak extension. Neither extension will bring up a special icon in explorer for me, so when I see a bunch of .bak extensions for things that I've already finished, I just select and delete.
I'm sure you can all guess what happened, right? .dat and .bak just aren't dissimilar enough at icon size for me to realize what I'm doing. (And why would I save a .dat file anyway?)
The pain about this is, sure, I can reconstruct what I said, close enough, but this time, it's work, whereas last time it was creation, you know? Plus, I'm sure I hit one brilliant turn of phrase or another during the first writeup that I'll lose during the second.
