Here's a techie tip for fellow listers.
I'm on AOL and I have Word (for Mac). Occasionally AOL will "unexpectedly"
quit. If it does that while I'm typing an intended message into the AOL message
window, I lose everything I've just typed.
So I often type onto a Word page, intending to copy-paste the text into the
AOL message-window.
Problem: After I type something on the Word page, I try to make myself go
over it, correcting typos, revising blunders, even cutting stuff. I have Word
on
automatic-save every five minutes. If just as I'm about to copy the Word doc I
don't remember to save it manually, what gets copied is not the text I'm
looking at but what it was the last time it was automatically saved. So though
the
text I'm looking at has all the corrections, because I'm stupidly
inconsistent in manually saving at the last minute, what I end up pasting in
the message
window can be missing all the corrections since my last save. Yucky poo.
As a small example, in my last I posted:
"Throughout philosophy, for millennia, thinkers have built
elaborate theories in philosophies of language, mind, ontology and even
aesthetics based on the delusion that inert objects act."
But, since I had recently rejected Geoff's use of the word 'basis', I had
revised my line above to change the phrase 'based on' to 'dependent on'. For
the
reasons I just explained, that revision (and others) never made the posting.
Bottom line: Be careful of AOL and of Word. Like many methods of
communication, they are quite serviceable -- but they aren't perfect.
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