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A Last Request to Cafe Management
Things have changed, and that's fine. Things still need to be worked out, and that's fine, too. The one thing I now want some definitive information on is the fate of whatever content I posted in the last incarnation of the Cafe. Most things I had saved to my computer, but some I wrote on the fly and submitted without making copies. None of the content is worth much to posterity, but I would like to the ability to salvage those things important to me. Will there be a time in the future when we can regain what we submitted, or is it irretrievably lost? Can you let us know one way or another? Thanks.
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Comments (11)
Seconded.
February 22, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interestingly enough - your seconding is showing up to me as Comments (0).
I third it - some kind of tracking mechanism would be much appreciated.
February 22, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fourthed!
And please, Glenn, even if it's your "last request," don't do anything rash....
You need to stick around for them to fulfill this.
February 22, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing rash. You know where I hang out, now. I'm waiting to see how things pan out here. This was just me wanting to have access to some of my old stuff. :-)
February 22, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course I know where to find you, and I will. I just didn't want anyone getting worried here, who might not know where to find you.
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February 22, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is not lost, it will be loaded onto the site once the new server is up. Early next week.
February 22, 2008 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Andrew.
Glenn
February 22, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to worry! The NSA has a copy of everything. And as soon as they get retro-active immunity, for a small fee the phone company will make everything you ever said or wrote available for download to your cell phone, blackberry or I-Pod. Or if you want you can have it all as a DVD.
February 22, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Out of a sense of fairness and because I like Andrew, I would like to point out that at least some, if not most of the problems here are related to software developers and their often skewed takes on a program's actual phase in it's life-cycle. For reasons unknown to normal people, a programmer can view a self-tested program on one computer that found 496 bugs as a finished product, ready for world-wide promotion.
In order to keep their large denial systems intact, programmers have adopted a range of excuses that they believe covers them when those 496 bugs invariably crash the product, if not the hardware it is 'installed' on. Here are a few:
I have nothing really against developers. I just usually don't believe their first 210 appraisals on the readiness of their product.
February 22, 2008 11:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
:-) I like the avatar, and Andrew. Right now, I'm getting my B&D drill and attempting a cranial bore to see if I can relieve some of the pressure in my head. I hate colds, and the perpetual sound of a howling wind in my ears has grown tire some. As always, Woof, Woof and double treats all around :-)
February 23, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Somehow I had no idea I had so much in common with software. I guess I shoulda known.
Glenn, you seem an unusually complicated person, though maybe it’s just the apparently unusual shape of your head. I can identify.
Sheers.
February 23, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
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