December 22, 2007
OOPs… I was careless - after I blogged to BE CAREFUL!
Filed under miscellaneous
After posting Be careful and don’t post your draft… unless you mean to! yesterday, guess what I did? 
That’s Right!
I hit publish before I was ready to.
Yesterday, I wrote: “Generally the post is essentially done, but I’ve not proofed it for errors or not identified the tags or some other relatively simple thing. I try very hard to not hit the publish button until I’m absolutely ready.”
I wasn’t successful today. I published before I was ready. The post was supposed to be a preloaded post that would be published while we were on the road tomorrow. However, I didn’t set the timestamp for tomorrow before I hit publish.
Back in my working life, one of the things that was encouraged is that you self-check when performing tasks in order to help prevent errors. (There were also other kinds of checks that I won’t go in to here.) I guess I need to get into the habit of doing a better self-check before I publish.
Comments on "OOPs… I was careless - after I blogged to BE CAREFUL!" »
Thomas @ 10:32 pm
Thanks for helping us not to feel too badly about our posting mistakes by joining the club
Showing your human side by making mistakes ensures that the rest of us that are making mistakes feel comfortable.
Have a great holiday.
teeni @ 11:30 pm
LOL. Thomas is very good at trying to make us feel better about our blunders. What a good friend.
And he’s right. I do feel like at least I belong to the human club when I see that some of my fellow bloggers make some of the same mistakes as I do. But it is kind of ironic that that happened to you on that particular post. 
Sounds like the kind of thing that happens to me quite often, Mike!
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Mike Goad @ 7:38 pm
Thanks Thomas and teeni!
I learned a long time ago and far, far, from here - actually it was while on patrol in the North Atlantic at a depth of a couple hundred feet, but that’s another story - that it can often be beneficial to own up to errors… and, in this case, add a little humor by poking fun at myself.