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Thursday, February 10, 2011

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

  This post has nothing to do with what you think it does, i guarantee it. A few months ago when I was starting the Comicstory (you can yell at me for my inconsistency later...), I lost everything. Blogspot has this terrible glitch that if you past something and then do control/command Z, the whole page wipes, and you can't get it back. I tried everything, it was all gone. What's amazing is how overlooked this problem is. I googled it, and humorously enough (because blogspot is owned/created by google), there were tons and tons of results. I went to the forums and there are literally pages and pages of people complaining about their lost work. But that's not what this is about; I'm not here to complain about a free service, because as Mint Condition always says, if it's free, don't complain, just deal with it.
  I don't know about how caching works. I know that the computer tracks most of what you do and it sits there as a weird little file that can't be opened except in Text Edit/Notepad and is actually longer than the amount of complaints about blogspot. Again, just pages and pages of code.
What I assume Google does with hatemail to make the place even cooler.
  So in an venture that is only taken by the ill-informed (there was no swamp hag to point me in the right direction unfortunately), I plunged into the files, opening things that looked interesting.

Doesn't she just scream "swamp hag"?

 To explain to those of you who knows how caching works (see, I don't even know how to use those terms or if the computer even does that), I was hoping to find my blogspot entry written out in a file from the interwebs. I know it does this because I found some of the URLs I visited, as well as some of the text from pages of those sites themselves. Well, to no avail, I gave up, but kept looking at the coding because it was really interesting to see. So at one point I'm looking through the folders and there was one that was weirdly named. It was through the Paintbrush program (the ghetto Paint...), but unfortunately I cannot find the folder again to reference. I did, however, copy this because I was so weirded out. Those of you who I was talking to about the misfortune might remember this:


That is unedited except for the obvious fact that it's short.
I did try to transcribe it all for you. Yes, you.
  There's nothing truly profound here, but isn't that weird? Really consider that in all of the pages I could have found and all of the coding, I'd find that one little spec. I even ran a search on the entire file, and it never occurs again. Just one of those things I suppose. Again, nothing profound, but I thought you might be interested in the things I find.

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