LJ ate my post!

[skyring]

These things are supposed to be autosaved, so when my browser crashed at the end of a long, detailed, thoughtful post, I wasn't too worried. I'd restore from the autosave, rewrite the minute or so that had been lost, and repost.

Well, I was given a blank slate instead of a draft. Heaven knows where my post went.

And yet, if I somehow get a draft saved and not posted, because I've used two browser windows instead of one or something, it hangs around for months, asking if I want to restore the two sentence stub.

Oh well.

Long story short.

On Friday night I went through a red light near Parliament House on the mistaken perception that the green turn arrow was my green go light. You don't muck about in the taxi game on the way to the airport, so I hit the gas and halfway across the intersection collected someone innocently turning right,

The various witnesses who helpfully came forward soon sorted out who was in the wrong, I got a ticket from the helpful police, and I'll undoubtedly get a nice big bill from the owner and the insurance people. Not to mention the money I lost by not driving that shift, or since.

Nobody injured. I'd feel terrible if I'd hurt somebody. Just damage to two very nice silver cars and a lot of inconvenience for all concerned.

And I can just feel the vibes from my fellow cabbies. "Thank heaven it wasn't me, this time!"

Comments

[islandmomma.livejournal.com]

ooops bad luck, knowing you I'm sure you'll put the unsolicited freetime to good use....except when it is wasted because of LJ cockups!!!

BTW can you explain to me, why, when I copy and paste a link to Wordpress it isn't active, and yet when I do the same thing to LJ it is?

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I may never go back to driving a taxi, I'm having so much fun with WordPress. If only I could get it to pay the bills...

WordPress, for all its power, doesn't make as many assumptions about what the blogger wants as LJ. I generally compose in the WordPress HTML window, where I've explicitly got to add tags to a link, but if I just dump a link into LJ - like this http://helloitsme.us/ - LJ will assume I want to make it a link and add the tags for me.

I've tried WP's visual editor and it's the same. You've got to explicitly make it a link. Sorry.

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to hear that you are okay.