Developing Usable Experiences

The slipperious world of copying…and pasting.

September 26th, 2006 6:35 am —  126 views

Okay, I might have made up that word, ‘slipperious’. I was thinking slippery with mysterious…

Yesterday I went to paste a stack trace into a group chat for peer review and I accidentally pasted a quote I had just highlighted from a famous quotes portlet on my google home page. I’m not sure why I highlighted and copied it into my clipboard memory buffer…I guess I thought I might private message it to someone because I thought it bore some resemblence to certain aspects of shared situations. But then I decided against it andwent back to scanning the log files I was tailing at the time looking for stack traces or weird error messages. I saw one, highlighted it’s key part then *thought I hit copy* but I must not have.

No harm in this one, but I’ve seen people paste things they didn’t want others to see thinking there was one thing in their buffer when there was really something else.

Kind of funny to think about…all the bazillions of words, files, pictures, memories, etc. that pass invisibly through the clipboards of computers on every tick of their internal clocks.

School has the Scholar studying, writing, thinking and reading virtually every spare moment of his time. This brain is getting some exercise. It’s cool.

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