I Hate Computers
Please take a moment to imagine me now, a 26 year old, 6’2", 200lbs, shaggy haired, bearded man, screaming with the utmost rage and fury, the longest string of semi-coherent profanity you have ever heard in your life.
I just spent the last several hours writing an extremely long and detailed OpenDiary entry. I included two full questionnaires with more information about me than you could ever have imagined wanting to know, and was rich and detailed in not only information, but wit, humor, aesthetically pleasant formatting, and many convenient hyperlinks to clarify any non-obvious information.
Then, literally FOUR FUCKING WORDS FROM THE END OF THE ENTRY, my browser completely crashed, and despite Firefox 2.0’s usually miraculous "Restore Session" feature which usually automagically reopens all your windows and tabs and all their text field contents, including half-written OpenDiary entries, this time, no doubt purely for no other reason that an enormous case of FATE FUCKING ME IN THE ASS YET AGAIN, it erased every single one of the several thousand carefully articulated words of my entry.
For those of you who are not familiar with my posts when this used to happen to me at least once a month on the old buggy OpenDiary system, be aware that my standard response to this will be extreme anger, frustration and depression for the next two days in which I weigh up the pros and cons of attempting to recreate the entire complex entry keystroke for keystroke, and the feasibility of such a task, followed by at least two weeks of blatant stubborn refusal to write anything anywhere on the internet for fear it happens again too song and I finally decide to end my torturous existence.
Jesus fucking Christ, I so passionately fucking despise computers… aarggghhh… {stabstabstab}
It’s so frustrating, and even more so when it’s a flippin’ job appliaction! Save as you go along in the future! 🙂
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That sucks so badly. I’m sorry. Quite honestly, I’ve never had that happen before, so maybe I’m lucky? Anyhow, good luck in attempting to recreate said masterpiece. I hope Firefox won’t mess you up again.
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i cured cancer once but my browser crashed before i finished the notes… i never went back to it.
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as i like to say, “i’m technically stupid.” :p ie things like this happen to me all the time. i feel your pain. i miss the old days when everyone wrote things by hand. am i the only one who still feels that way and fears technology because i generally don’t understand how to fix problems involving it?
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Oh, i feel your pain. It always happens after the long long long entires too. What i hated most was when internet explorer would click ‘back’ by itself (quite common on my lapptop due to keyboard shortcuts that i never figured out), destroying everything I’d type into the OD editor. Thankfully OD fixed that problem, but i still type my important entries in Word before i post them…just incase.
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I SO feel your pain. I can remember that happening to me SO MANY TIMES! And it always happened during one of my masterpieces! I am very much hoping OD has solved those problems of old. It caused me to commit suicide. Twice.
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I HATE it when that happens. If that happens to you often, you could always write your entries in Word or something, make sure you save it now and then, then copy & paste.
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RYN: It is now 4/27/2007, 4:30 PM my time, and the story has been told. So now you don’t have to hunt me down. 🙂
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Haha, I snuck (sneaked?) that correction in on you. I really didn’t think you’d catch it tho. I’m always underestimating you!
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It’s so maddening when stuff like that happens.
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if i were ever to write an entry that long, i’d probably write it in Word first, so that that didn’t happen. that being said, i never write entries that long, so i don’t have to worry! still, i understand your frustration.
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