File this under "one of those days"
Jun. 25th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularPower cut out - everyone thought it was a general blackout, but it turned out to be localized to some of the offices in our building. Problem was, when the computer went down, it took out the translation I'd spent the morning working on.
Dear Microsoft: while I appreciate the automatic backup feature of Word, please tell me you've made it more robust in the recent versions? I nearly had a heart attack thinking that I'd lost the entire morning's work, until the help file (thanks for that as well, by the way) pointed me at the autobackup file's location.
And while I'm at it:
Dear publishers of the Hellenic Government Gazette: there's a convention in the English language that when an abbreviation is used in an official document, the first time it turns up, it's spelled out in full. I know you don't write in English, but is spelling out the abbreviations once per document really too much to ask?
Dear Microsoft: while I appreciate the automatic backup feature of Word, please tell me you've made it more robust in the recent versions? I nearly had a heart attack thinking that I'd lost the entire morning's work, until the help file (thanks for that as well, by the way) pointed me at the autobackup file's location.
And while I'm at it:
Dear publishers of the Hellenic Government Gazette: there's a convention in the English language that when an abbreviation is used in an official document, the first time it turns up, it's spelled out in full. I know you don't write in English, but is spelling out the abbreviations once per document really too much to ask?
