October 19, 2025
The Dog Ate My Homework
Timothy Birdnow
%^&#%$^! For the second time a lengthy post I was writing about the Battle of Yorktown (today is the anniversary) was deleted by a slip of my hand on the new keyboard. Believe me, I said much worse than what is shown above!
I give up; I'm out of time. So read this much less informative post at Revolver.
One point; Cornwallis didn't choose his base poorly; he was laying a trap for Washington which would have worked had the British fleet left Halifax on time. The Admiral got sick and his replacement piddled around and the French came before the Brits arrived. Cornwallis wanted to trap Washington with gunboats up river from his position so he couldn't escape and with Cornwallis' best men marching up the peninsula. Instead Washington was marching DOWN the peninsula with Cornwallis facing French gunships.
If I have time tomorrow I'll try to thresh this out better for you; there are a lot of dots that need connecting.
%^&#%$^! For the second time a lengthy post I was writing about the Battle of Yorktown (today is the anniversary) was deleted by a slip of my hand on the new keyboard. Believe me, I said much worse than what is shown above!
I give up; I'm out of time. So read this much less informative post at Revolver.
One point; Cornwallis didn't choose his base poorly; he was laying a trap for Washington which would have worked had the British fleet left Halifax on time. The Admiral got sick and his replacement piddled around and the French came before the Brits arrived. Cornwallis wanted to trap Washington with gunboats up river from his position so he couldn't escape and with Cornwallis' best men marching up the peninsula. Instead Washington was marching DOWN the peninsula with Cornwallis facing French gunships.
If I have time tomorrow I'll try to thresh this out better for you; there are a lot of dots that need connecting.
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Since you write these things with Notepad, a good strategy would be to SAVE your work constantly (Ctrl S) and then when you manage to mangle it, get the previous version back. That should save you some time. Ctrl Z should delete what had just happened. How much you will lose depends on how often you SAVE.
Try it on a "dummy" Notepad document to get the feel of it.
Try it on a "dummy" Notepad document to get the feel of it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 19, 2025 05:42 PM (kRAxH)
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I will.
I rewrote everything today and it developed this weird formatting glitch as if I was hitting the enter key every few lines. I went through to correct it all (t didn't show in notepad but on the editor for the site) and was just about done when the site locked up and deleted all my edits. I gave up; it was as if some supernatural force was trying to stop me! I left it as is and will perhaps try again in a day or two; I don't want to waste any more time with it.
I rewrote everything today and it developed this weird formatting glitch as if I was hitting the enter key every few lines. I went through to correct it all (t didn't show in notepad but on the editor for the site) and was just about done when the site locked up and deleted all my edits. I gave up; it was as if some supernatural force was trying to stop me! I left it as is and will perhaps try again in a day or two; I don't want to waste any more time with it.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 20, 2025 08:10 AM (1dNIv)
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I compose on an old version of MS Word (1995) and it saves the work every 90 seconds automatically. Don't know if newer versions do that, but the feature has proven useful a time or two for me.
Posted by: Bill H at October 20, 2025 09:02 AM (FRG6e)
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Well, Bill, that feature saves a separate file, with a .BAK extension, if I'm not mistaken. I think that would cause Tim more problems than it would solve. If he hits Ctrl S like I'm trying to get him to do, it should just Save his main document, and then if he wrecks it, I'm expecting that Ctrl Z should Undo the damage caused by his last keystrokes. Works for me with a number of different software packages.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 20, 2025 09:38 PM (kRAxH)
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Oh, by the way, Bill, those keyboard shortcuts I'm suggesting are for modern versions of Windows. I'm assuming -- maybe I shouldn't -- that they'll work with the antiquated version that Tim's using, whatever it may be. I know he has a machine running Vista, which I never had to use.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 20, 2025 09:45 PM (kRAxH)
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I was working on a website and discovered not only was I was making changes to the wrong web page, but had saved my work. I was able to hit Ctrl-Z about 25 times or so and undo all of my changes, save it, and restore the original page. I don't know how many Ctrl-Z bits are buffered for restoration, Dana, but apparently it is quite a lot.
Posted by: Bill H at October 20, 2025 11:47 PM (FRG6e)
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Now if only we can get Tim to try it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 21, 2025 09:52 PM (i02lT)
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That may well work for me Bill but I would lose the reformatting feature of notepad. Now when I copy and paste something notepad automatically reformats it for me. I quit using Word becauseI was alway getting coding problems with the site because of bad formatting, or getting weird things happening. Cerrtainly titles wind up big if I do that.
Notepad has served me well over the years but it can have it's problems.
Dana, I tried your tricks and they work. Thanks
Notepad has served me well over the years but it can have it's problems.
Dana, I tried your tricks and they work. Thanks
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 22, 2025 05:52 AM (BgfpD)
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