{"id":4205,"date":"2007-03-21T08:25:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:46:40","slug":"one_mistake_on_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4205","title":{"rendered":"One mistake on a computer keyboard… and you’re up the creek…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a real horror story – the sort of thing anyone depending on their computer fears. Hit the link to read the whole article –<\/p>\n

When the moving finger wrongs: Do we have a backup plan? – Business – insider.washingtontimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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JUNEAU, Alaska — Everyone who ever sat at a keyboard knows that moment of terror with the realization that a single accidental keystroke has wiped out hours of work. Pity the technician for the Alaska Department of Revenue who wiped out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion.
    Performing routine maintenance, the technician deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
    There was still hope until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a real horror story – the sort of thing anyone depending on their computer fears. Hit the link to read the whole article – When the moving finger wrongs: Do we have a backup plan? – Business – insider.washingtontimes.com JUNEAU, Alaska — Everyone who ever sat at a keyboard knows that moment of terror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9473,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}