Crash and burn

When I got up this morning I wrote about the adventures of my hunter last night. After composing an interesting and entertaining post I ran a spell check. Up popped a misspelled word and the dictionary didn't know how to fix it. I jumped on Dictionary.com and tried to find the correct spelling. Apparently I had misspelled the word so badly that the spell checker and Dictionary.com couldn't figure out what I was on about. So I throw it at Google and get some hits. I clicked a link that looked promising and .... Well the title says it all. FireFox rolls over and plays dead. Well it wasn't playing. The post was lost. I was not a happy camper. "Dispare" had in fact become despair.

I'm used to this kind of behavior with IE and Windoze, but not with Firefox and my Mac. In fact I had become lazy at home. This happens at work not at home. As a computer professional I should have known better. If you don't want to lose it, back it up, and back it up often.

Edit: 17 February 2009

I came into make some enhancements to web links and low and behold the missing post had been saved as a draft. I had seen the periodic message saying that the post I was working on was being saved, I just had no idea where. So I guess this is just Crash without a burn. Hehe!

Hello World

And so goes the first code that anyone writes, regardless of programming language they are learning. Hello World is ubiquitous. How do I display information within this programming framework? That is one of the first things you do, learn to display information. It does not matter how many different programming languages you learn, you will write an application that displays Hello World. Count on it.

While this is not a programming language, it is something new, so the title seems fitting, if not comfortable to the old programmer (that's me). What I have to do, is leave behind the structured world of technical writing that follows application development like a sad puppy. That stuff is a guaranteed to put everyone to sleep. If someone ever figures out how to take a technical document and turn it into a pill, they will be rich. Software developers do NOT like to write documentation, but we all have to do things we don't like. Hopefully writing this blog will not be one of those things.

For reasons that I cannot explain I feel the need to start a blog. Of course I have all these idea's that I think will make interesting posts. We will see. I will be posting about my virtual life in World of Warcraft, funny stories from my past (and even my present), and various musing on current topics. Yes this is just another soap box for the Internet enabled generation to stand on and espouse their view. I hope that they will be entertaining. I suspect that I am only writing for myself, so I should be fairly easy to please, since I know what I like. Now if I can only stop myself for revising this for the tenth or eleventh time.