Hellfire and damnation, my desktop is pining for the fjords dead. Bereft of life, it rests in pieces. It's shuffled off its mortal coil. It is an EX-computer
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Fortunately the hard drive is recoverable - and even if it weren't, we'd already made a backup of our most important files (including our entire iTunes libraries) back in June, when we first started having power issues.
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I hate, hate, hate typo reviews with the passion of a thousand suns. FFS, published books have typos. Crap happens. I'm grateful when a friend or regular reader lets me know to fix something, that's different, but when someone just comes along and the only comment they leave is, You're missing a comma in the third sentence of paragraph 2, ARGH! Go boil your head.
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That review probably wouldn't have annoyed me so much if it had been an actual typo/error they'd pointed out, because I've been missing more and more mistakes as I get older. Instead, I really ran out of character spaces in the title - I had to choose between omitting a colon and comma in the middle, or the last 2 characters on the end. You'd think someone looking at how long the title is might have been able to figure out that's what happened, and not that I suddenly forgot how to spell "husband."
I suppose if I had anything more important than book reports and songs on mine, I might have been more careful. Sigh....
I must admit, I make too many typos and I mix similar sounding words up a lot (YAY for stupid pills!) so getting them pointed out does give you the chance to fix them. It's not so much when it happens to me that I get irked but I hate that "well, haven't you wasted my time, you evil comma-less-bastard" that comes across in so many that I've seen.
t's not so much when it happens to me that I get irked but I hate that "well, haven't you wasted my time, you evil comma-less-bastard" that comes across in so many that I've seen. Same here, especially if that's the only thing they pointed out. It's almost as though they're blaming us for the trouble they had to take to point out one misspelled word in a 5,000-word fic. Makes me want to break out the tiny violins.
Oh man, back-up. That would just be, like, smart! I wish I ever actually did that, and probably should! I'm sorry about your computer, but at least you can get (relatively) cheap desktops.
at least you can get (relatively) cheap desktops. Unless you're a die-hard Mac user, which I am. :-) A refurbished Mac desktop will set me back about $1,600.
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I hate, hate, hate typo reviews with the passion of a thousand suns. FFS, published books have typos. Crap happens. I'm grateful when a friend or regular reader lets me know to fix something, that's different, but when someone just comes along and the only comment they leave is, You're missing a comma in the third sentence of paragraph 2, ARGH! Go boil your head.
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CMA insurance policy - I wasn't about to have my entire thesis folder go *poof* a month before it was due. :-P
That review probably wouldn't have annoyed me so much if it had been an actual typo/error they'd pointed out, because I've been missing more and more mistakes as I get older. Instead, I really ran out of character spaces in the title - I had to choose between omitting a colon and comma in the middle, or the last 2 characters on the end. You'd think someone looking at how long the title is might have been able to figure out that's what happened, and not that I suddenly forgot how to spell "husband."
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I must admit, I make too many typos and I mix similar sounding words up a lot (YAY for stupid pills!) so getting them pointed out does give you the chance to fix them. It's not so much when it happens to me that I get irked but I hate that "well, haven't you wasted my time, you evil comma-less-bastard" that comes across in so many that I've seen.
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Same here, especially if that's the only thing they pointed out. It's almost as though they're blaming us for the trouble they had to take to point out one misspelled word in a 5,000-word fic. Makes me want to break out the tiny violins.
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Unless you're a die-hard Mac user, which I am. :-) A refurbished Mac desktop will set me back about $1,600.
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