I just spent two hours preparing a detailed post of some interest and import, and when I hit “publish,” it vanished. This has never happened before. Now I am furious, frustrated, and can’t even start to re-do the damn thing, because I’m giving a seminar about government lawyer ethics in a few hours, and I have to prepare.
All I can say is 1) I’m sorry and 2) ^%$#^)(&%!!@#%!!!
I’ll get it rewritten eventually.
Ethics Alarms 
Been there, bought the t-shirt – I now when I compose ( as rare as that is these days ) is to copy and paste the entire thing into an email and save as a draft – Yeah links and pictures still have to be redone, but at least you’ve got the guts. Sorry for your loss, literally..!
Thanks. After my imminent death from poison, you will find yourself in my will.
If you cut and past into a Word document, it will save the links and such as well…
My dad always said to never trust the general cussedness of inanimate objects (and that was before there were computers!).
Before I do anything, I always click “back” on the browswer. I’m often asked something along the lines of “do you want to re-use the old data” or some other comment. I always pick yes, and sometimes, just sometimes, everything I typed pops back up.
Pardon me, when in a similar situation, when all is lost, before I do anything….
You mean, before killing yourself? I tried to go back. You can’t go back. You can never go back….
Are you channeling Don Henley there? Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac?
Wasn’t Hemingway’s final and missing novel a rough draft manuscript that was blown away by the wind about 5 minutes before his passing?
That would explain the gunshot. Sounds plausible.
I can say with great confidence I know exactly how you feel.
Sorry, Jack.
Ugh, that’s too bad. But I have no doubt it will be a better piece the second time around. Looking forward to reading what you write.
Me too. Still haven’t the time, or the heart.
No.
They are never as good the second time.
That’s what makes it so painful.
Assuming you mean “3” for “a few”, I just have to ask…
What are you going to do with the other 2 hours and 30 minutes? I mean, it isn’t like those government lawyers have ethics for you to check on…
Jokes aside, my experience is that government lawyers are, as a group, by far the most ethically literate, attentive, and dedicated.Also interested—it’s always a class where I have to be especially ready to defend my assertions and answer tough “what ifs?”
Well, where do you think the tough what-ifs come from??
AM is on to something.
Is your responsiveness to your customers perhaps a bit self-blinding?
Sometimes pen and paper just seems to have it’s place. 😦
“If you cut and past into a Word document, it will save the links and such as well…”
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Backing up is for sissies.
YEAH!!!
Turn it into an ethics quiz.
Give us the facts, the actual outcomes,
then give us some of what could have been outcomes and let us duke it out.
That’ll buy you the time to compose your opinion.