the corner office

Anyone who reads my blog via Bloglines caught me with m'trousers down last night. I don't feel right about editing posts long after the fact, no matter how bad or cringe-worthy they are, but I do sometimes tweak posts as I do my 'final' preview on the live post. I figure that if nobody's had a chance to read the post yet, no harm done. Of course...

Last night I decided to tweak my CAPS Lock post, but instead of doing it the proper way, I just selected the edit page in my browser history and re-published. Only then did I realise that I'd created a brand new entry instead of editing the existing one. As luck would have it, Bloglines read my RSS feed while I was hurriedly faffing around in mysql trying to delete the extra post. My editorial process laid bare to the world. The shame!

Ironically, the feature I'd been adding to the blog admin app last night was... yeeess: deleting and/or retiring entries. Apart from little bugger-ups like last night, I've never needed to remove posts from the blog, so it wasn't a feature I'd ever missed, which is why I'd forgotten about it. Once I've deployed the new version to this server, it'll probably be yonks before I need it again. But I'll sleep soundly knowing that next time I'll beat Bloglines to the draw.