I was in the middle of a remarkly erudite post on the art of filenaming (honest) when Firefox decided my cursor wasn’t in the text edit box. My continued typing involved a backspace which of course took me off the page. Bang. Post gone.
Makes you realise that running apps in browsers sometimes takes away the safety nets you’ve got used to. I used to be rather careful on this front and would always type stuff into notepad before instead of straight into a browser. Much safer.
Do you know what made me become careless?
Damn GMail and it’s auto-save. It’s never lost an email and therefore I’ve started getting cosy about typing into text fields again. And thus I get shafted by Wordpress. I’m off to see if there is a plug-in for it that does auto-save 
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The same thing happened to me today, adding a culturally significant edit to the Wikipedia page on Sun Tzu (he was referenced by the deeply unpopular rapper Everlast on a House of Pain/Helmet track, which, you know, is important).
Stupid backspace, cost me at least six seconds work (I had to doublecheck the album title).
But then, mirablis, I went forwards and my edits were still there, pristeen as a Trekkie’s STD record. Incidentally, Star Trek is not a TV Show but a mutagenic multimedia virus designed to reduce reproduction levels amongst the population of developed techno-industrial communities.
Yep that might have worked if I’d navigated to the page normally but I’d used a ‘convenient’ blog this bookmarklet.
Thank-you for the Star Trek reference. That should help Google introduce a quality demographic to our site.
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