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I like it when errors are pointed out

Jan 09, 2006 No Comments »

Today someone wrote to me that on my rates page for writing content I had misspelled “reference” as “referenc” (I had omitted the last ‘e’). I remember a few months ago another spelling error was pointed out by a visitor.

I’m lucky that these visitors didn’t say, “We wanted to hire you but the typos on your pages stopped us from doing so.”

Spelling is a forte that has always had weak walls for me. I again and again have to run the spell checks to make sure that I don’t write the words wrongly. Still, especially when I’m writing stuff for my own website, sometimes I don’t check words individually – which I should because my website generates business for me and any big or small folly can cost me lots of money – but when it comes to sending the documents to me clients I thoroughly go through the content.

I’m thankful to the people who take the trouble to send me a message pointing out the typos. Sometimes they do it quite rudely, especially when the message is originating from some blog, nonetheless I appreciate the gesture because it only helps me make my website better.

Infrastructural problem

Jan 03, 2006 No Comments »

In the morning I started with so much energy that I threw water all over my table by mistake. Something or the other kept happening and not a single task was achieved and by the time I could really get into the groove the electricity decided to play truant. There is this problem in the new apartment that although there is 24-hour power backup, if something goes wrong, there is no technician to take care of that problem. This is silly because problems do not happen just during the day. But it proved to be a blessing in disguise.

Alka and I got to enjoy a quite, romantic dinner with Vasu shuffling between our laps. The plug where the refrigerator stands was working. This Diwali we had purchased a tiny decorative lamp. So we pulled the refrigerator’s wire out and instead used it for our lamp. The light was damp but it lit the entire room. We were worried that Vasu would be uncomfortable in the darkness but she was quite cool about the whole thing.

Of course this meant no work. In fact I was working with a client when all this happened. I think from now onwards I should ask for phone numbers too and shouldn’t solely depend on the Internet for communication. Had I had her phone number I could have at least called her.

Anyway, it was a pleasant night.