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Writing blog posts and email using online editors is a bad idea.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

 I am extremely upset right now! I spent over 2 hours writing the “about” section for this website. I was using the editor built-in to Wordpress. When I clicked on the button to publish it errored out and when I used the back button on the browser the page was expired. I lost all of what I had written. I hate that. It’s happened in the past and so usually I write posts in an offline editor so I don’t lose everything in case of an error like what just happened to me. Wordpress team: Where is the auto-save?! I am not happy. Someone please tell me there is a way to recover what I wrote.

BTW, I use Microsoft’s online version of Outlook (OWA) which is guilty of the same problem. I’ve written lengthy emails on the online editor only to have the page error upon hitting send. This is insane. I guess I’ll just get into the habit of copying the entire post to the clipboard before posting. I am frustrated and upset that 2 hours is totally wasted. I’m going to bed before I go nuts.

UPDATE: Brian Blood over at Network Jack posted about how he modified the Wordpress database to recover the last 2 revisions of a post. It wont help me in this case but I’ll implement his method for preventing the problem in the future.

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Vista Sounds Off - Literally.

Monday, March 26th, 2007

I applaud Chris Pirillo’s efforts for voicing his opinion regarding Vista’s shortcomings. Honestly, I expected way more from Vista out of the box.

I’ve got a few minor issues with Vista. Mostly with the hideous wakeup support. After my laptop has been in sleep mode it acts hungover. Upon wake up there is no sound. It seems the only way to restore the sound is to restart the laptop. Apparently this is a known issue and Microsoft has released a patch to resolve this issue. I installed the patch but it had no effect. I still get no sound after wake up. Vista SP1 is supposed to address this but for now I’ll have to live with it. Shame on you Vista! You really should stop being so lazy and get out of bed.

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