After spending an extremely interrupted hour crafting my last entry, I selected all the text in order to copy/paste it into a notepad. I usually do this before hitting the “Post Entry” button because I don’t want some internet blip to eat my work. I selected all the text and then hit “paste” instead of “copy”. After a moment of stunned realization there was anguished screaming. This of course brought flocks of children trying to figure out why mommy made that noise and what does it mean for them. Is it duck and cover time? I shooed them all out of my office and called my marvelous friend Chalain who told me that Ctrl Z will undo a single paste. I was fairly certain such a command existed, but didn’t know what it was. I’m so very glad to have Chalain to call.
In extremely related news, I’ve finally downloaded a livejournal client to work from. Howard kept telling me I should, but I was lazy. The potential consequences of “lazy” having been forced into my notice, I decided to take the plunge. So here I am using a client and having backed up all my entries via an archive tool. Go me.
The undo command is the feature most necessary for nearly all applications.
But livejournal clients are good, too.
I wish life had an “undo” button sometimes.
Life’s user interface is a little clunky, shall we say.
I’ll bet it’s only in beta.
Which client are you using?
Sort of like gmail, where everyone can get a beta pass?
Archive tool?
Ooo, ooo. Which client is that? 🙂
After a cursory inspection semagic seemed to be the most established, so I whimfully picked it.
Re: Archive tool?
The archive tool isn’t included in the client. I found it here:
http://ljbackup.yamnet.co.uk/
It looks like it has lots of features, but mostly I wanted a quick way to pull text from my journal and save it without cut/pasting into a word document.
Re: Archive tool?
Ooo, cool! The formating on the output isn’t great, but at least all the text is there. 🙂 And it *is* a lot faster than cut-n-pasting every entry. O_o
Client software – way to go
Thanks Sandra,
I downloaded and added a couple of entries, it may even encourage me to post more often.
Chris.