That’s Not How Internet Works

A few days ago while my family and I were eating lunch, my mom received a phone call from one of our rel­atives telling us that she had sent us a copy of scanned documentation that we wanted to see via email. About ten minutes later, after finishing lunch, we opened up my mom’s account and saw that we did not get the email.

My mom called my relative back and told her that we did not receive the email.

My relative’s response: “Oh, it must still be on its way, then.”

Follow-up to “Twitter! Stop adding random tweets to my favorites list!”

About a month or so ago, I put a note in my blog saying that I was having issues with Twitter randomly adding tweets to my favorites list. Once in a while, people would ask me why a particular bland tweet was in my favorites list, and I would have no response because I would not recall ever favoriting the tweet in question.

I asked people to respond to my question if and only if they knew a definite answer to my issue, and that ended up not happening. I got an unnecessarily large response, with most people saying “maybe you accidentally clicked the Favorite button and forgot” or “maybe you have a terrible memory.” Nobody gave me a remotely plausible suggestion.

Earlier today, just by chance, I noticed that hitting the F key while reading a tweet in your web browser will favorite it. I also noticed that all the tweets that recently appeared in my favorites list have been tweets for which I clicked the Detail link, which brings up the tweet on its own page and activates the F keyboard shortcut for favoriting. Taking into consideration the fact that I have an overactive left index finger and accidentally hit the F key a lot, the keyboard shortcut is the reason why I have accidentally been favoriting tweets.

I’m not 100% sure if that’s the true reason or not, but it seems like the most plausible explanation (and more reasonable than me intentionally favoriting a tweet and forgetting that I did it, over and over a­gain.

Correction Credit

Last for today, I want to give a shout-out to Arianne for submitting a detailed correction for my web­site.

In my blog post from October 31, 2011, there was a broken link that was supposed to point to a page on the Daily Post on WordPress.com. Instead of the URL working properly, it linked to an internal page on my website that did not exist.

The reason for this error was the fact that instead of using straight apostrophes when wrapping the URL, I accidentally used curly apostrophes (because I had originally written the post in Microsoft Word) and forgot to change them to straight apostrophes before publishing it as a PHP file.