The Great WC Account Scare

For those of you who missed it the WC went bat s**t crazy for a few minutes today

There was a panic on the WC

We lost all our accounts

They fell into some cyber hole

and wouldn't come back out 

The PM's they flew back and forth 

Dear God what's going on 

Now all our work has disappeared 

No backup it's all gone 

With sweaty palms and bulging veins 

the panicked writers stared 

into their blank computer screens 

for work that wasn't there 

Then came the WC miracle 

Our work just reappeared 

It was as if nothing happened

That s**t was freaky weird 

I don't know what really happened 

All I got is theories 

A debugging system ran Amok 

Some other kind of query 

Cyberspace is the wild west

anything can happen 

We trust the work we sweat over

To some weird contraption 

Those of us who witnessed chaos

survived to tell this tale 

Make sure you have your work backed up 

If there's an epic fail 

Author's Note

I banged this out pretty quick. It was a scary few minutes on here though.

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

you know, this happened in 2007 or was it 8 or 9. I think it was 2007 - the whole site crashed and the work DID NOT come back. I lost forty pieces of writing. Most were blog entries but there was one journal entry and one poem that I could not exhume and it still haunts me. Save your crap. Best advice ever. A lot of brilliant writers packed and left as well. I'm glad this was just a blip.

[Baby Ricochet]

I have the originals of all my work in Libra office on my hard drive. So if my hard drive crashes I'm screwed.

[Annabelle Lee]

oh good grief. Most of my favorites were written down in a notebook first, though so I guess I've got my own archaic form of backup

[Baby Ricochet]

That's a good thing

[Nia Hope]

I wasn't even aware that this happened Geez Louise I would have gone insane. Glad everything is back up though wouldn't want to miss anymore of what you write :)

[Ayvid N]

The most cleverly written poem I have read today.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Divya

[Carolann Dowsett]

Wow I must of missed it. Glad it got resolved though. Nicely written and rhymed as usual Mark.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Carolann

[B. Maaitah]

The rhyme was perfect in this poem, your description of the actual event transformed it into a melodramatic scene fit for a dooms-day kind of movie, which speaks highly of your skills as a writer... loved it from start to finish! :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for stopping by B. I appreciate it.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Great work. You have mastered the quick a-b-a-b.

[Nusquam Esse]

Well... I keep several different backups, so I wasn't worried to begin with. Plus the errors I was getting were SQL related, so I figured their servers were just having a few issues, and it was nothing to worry about. (SQL error would generally refer to an issue with the sites main server, not so much the individual data entries) I used to work IT for Microsoft, so I was calmer than most. (I had several people message me that I had never even talked to before freaking out about it. Each of them I just calmly pasted in my last response of not worrying about it)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thans for stopping by. I appreciate it

[SquinklaPsyOps]

Wow, this is extremely interesting, I wonder what was going on in writer's heads while they couldn't access their portfolios, that is kind of scary losing intellectual creativity.

By the way, the photo you used is super funny, the photo could be interpreted as restrain that writer's intelligence and erase all evidence from the internet that he's a writer, then make him think that he imagined he was a writer and keep him under control.

Great work BR, I agree with Elisa Laura, Coyote Poetry and David Lewis Paget advice.

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you squinkia

[Wolfwind]

i love your concept about cyberspace being the wild west. I think it's perfect! It really embodies the chances and the rugged landscape that people can face dealing with all the random flows of glitch and twitch of the cyber nerves.

I've always backed up everything, even before the great purge of long ago. Yet, your ink is a great and witty reminder to those who may just have blown in on some cyber wind, that keeping copies off line is always good mojo.

Great Creativity!
Wolfwind

[Baby Ricochet]

thankyou wolfwind