December 23, 2010

• Happy Decade Day!

  Happy Decade Day. That would be one decade, ten years, since the day I signed up for Xanga.

  I had written quite a bit of the story already here, and then inexplicably I clicked off the tab.

  Poof! And so quickly I am reminded about one of the things I really HATE about Xanga. NO AUTO-SAVE.

  I told myself… write it in Google Docs, so it will be automatically saved as you go along, then copy and paste it over. But no. WordPress has that feature built in to their blog editor. 

  But no… not Xanga. You’ve only been at this for ten years, boys and girls. You couldn’t incorporate such a simple but eminently helpful, even (metaphorically) life-saving feature as autosave, in the midst of adding all your audio and video and social whatnot?

  To further infuriate me, although I do have the Lazarus extension on Google Chrome on this computer, it doesn’t seem to recognize this as a text field to recover. If you’re not familiar with it, Lazarus is this amazing little extension that automatically saves anything you type into a web form, so you can quickly recover it. But, it seems not to work for this weblog entry box, although it does work for the “tag” box below. !@#$#%@

  I guess I’ll re-type my story later, when I calm down about it. But, I hope this is the beginning of my “reboot.” Happy Decade Day to me and to all the others who were the first class of Bianca Broussard recruits and have still stuck around here (under one name or another) all these ten years.

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