When technology goes wrong

Hi,

As we moved further into the era of modern technology, most of our daily activities evolved around computer esp. microsoft products. However, they are not always error-proof, something they failed and they failed on the user badly. Take a look at the attached picture for example.



Here the story goes: My beloved wife was working on her uni report using Word 2003 and had managed to complete a few pages. she was kinda of "in the zones" and was typing in a "got dragon, got tiger" style. She was about to save the work when suddenly a dialog box pop out stating ERROR so she click ok assuming that she could save her work under an filename. And guess wat happened, the word auto-shut off by itself. What make the situation worse is the original doc was deleted from its location by Words. And that was when i heard a scream from the room follow by some swearing. Everything is gone, start from scratch.

Some lessons to share:

1. Alway have a backup copy of your doc.
2. Never trust technology.
3. Never work off your thumbdrive, had a copy on your desktop.

03-Jan-08
Tiger