sorry, Peter

I can sympathize with Gratton’s mild frustration with the wording of my post:

“Harman writes back, noting it’s not ‘luck’ if one saves one’s files properly. A sentiment I heard quite a bit after my laptop was stolen. So luck would cover the Pagemaker files of my college years, since I did save quite often and the files would be corrupted and not reopen. But let’s just say I have an automatic back-up system in my house and I send crucial files to myself. The problem last summer was that I was in Europe, never got online with my computer, and thus didn’t send files to myself. So, I’ll allow myself a small modicum of whining.”

My words came off the wrong way, then. I wasn’t trying to offer condescending advice about file-saving. Believe me, everyone was trying to offer me finger-wagging lectures in early 2005 as well: “it wouldn’t have happened if you had only….” And I hate that, and would never do it to anyone else. I know Peter well enough to know him as a conscientious and thorough worker with good attention to detail, and I’m quite sure he did everything one could possibly do. Help yourself to the small modicum of whining.

No, I was more just teasing myself for excessive file-saving, a vice that the storage capacities of Gmail has turned into a full-blown perversion.