Dumb Mistake #2

Eventually I might get to #1001, but for now it is my second in line of biggest mistakes.

The Big Mistake

In the Squidoo text module you get 10,000 characters. That seems like more than enough, and usually it is, but in my LOTD lens, which I was eager to improve, I had filled it with information about Ohio gardens. I didn't keep sight of the fact that I was at or near the 10,000 mark on that module.

Already having started a second module for more garden entries, I had the great idea that I should include official site links for each park, in case people needed more information on a park they wanted to visit. That was a good idea, but what wasn't so good (the 2nd mistake) is that as I added more at the top of the module.. you guessed it.... the bottom of the module was losing information. I had lost one whole entry on the Cleveland Cultural garden!

How Did I Fix This?

Well, I had lost important pages before... sometimes my fault and sometimes because of glitches on the free servers (Oh yes, I remember "crosswinds.net" with this happening more than once). The way I found you could recover lost work, if you got to it in time, was in Google's cache. And that is how I recovered the lost information from my lens, since I had probably lost it in the 24 hours previously to discovering my mistake.

Thank you, Google. I copy and pasted my lost information into the newer module (which to the viewer is seamless addition to the first one). Most lenses do not have a long string of entries, but this one happens to be a whole state worth of good gardens to visit.