Oversights

[057] ... [General]

There was an error in numbering yesterday's post. 53 should have been 56. So much for copy and paste to save time, where you miss out editing the most required.

We often end up with such errors unknowingly or when in a hurry or when taking it for granted. Once a hyperlink in a webpage began with <a> and the whole page turned into a blue-underlined link since the </a> tag to end it had gone missing, somehow getting deleted in the process of restructuring a sentence.

Recently while maintaining accounts in a spreadsheet, no amount of crosschecking expenses brought in the correct balance. After a near hour of frustration, it turned to be a missing 3 in the intended 435 in the last entry.

Many trying to eat or drink with the face mask on was a typical joke three years ago. Now of course it's become second nature to live with it like those email with no subject or the missing attachments mentioned.

An elderly colleague I worked with many years back was known to always goof up the simplest. He once wrote his own address in the To field while posting an urgent letter and promptly received it back a day later.

Some websites are also designed with unfriendly online forms, having the Submit button on the left and Reset on the right. The other way is what people are used to, to move on to the next through what's on the right. One wrong click, and you need to redo the whole.

There are so many such that we all encounter, and rather than fill this up with all the curious ones, I rather prefer to reserve them for those days in the future when nothing new comes to mind...