I just learned a very important lesson in blogging and am blogging about this to hopefully help anyone else avoid this mistake.
As I sat typing away, blogging on, of all things, the ideas for my paper, I accidentally hit Ctrl-W as I was trying to hit Shift-W to make a capital W when instead I lost everything. Every last bit of data I had entered from the research I had done (I still have the research and numbers, just not in the way I had prepared them for my paper) all gone.
Granted, this was just a blog and not my paper and since it was only a mere outline and not the paper itself, I am really not all THAT upset. Still, I had no idea that ctrl-W actually close a window without any type of warning (they do say that you learn something new everyday). I also thought it would be a valuable experience to share with everyone else so they do not lose their blog content. Instead, I have decided to begin all of my content in Microsoft Word, where I am not as vulnerable to lost data as I am on the net. This way, when I have completed my entry, I can just copy and paste.
Watch out for that ctrl-W! It's a wicked little shortcut!
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