It was all finished, every last page, and I just needed to print it. Only, when I tried to open the files, they were corrupted. Half of the magazine is now lost in cyberspace, and the future of the rest is shaky at best since I don’t know what happened. Computer Virus? Problem with my flash drive? Fluke accient? No clue.
This is exactly what I wanted to do the old school cut-and-paste layout. Luckily, my better instincts generally get the best of me, and I have a mock-up that contains most everything that was destroyed, and, of course, I have the original work from our contributors. It is the hours of lost labor that is distressing. I am disheartened, I’ll admit it. And damn annoyed for not having a back up of the files (which would probably be corrupt, too, eh?)
Chaos fights order at every turn. Dark threatens to snuff out light. Some dude quoted me $9 an issue to print this thing out. Is he out of his mind?
It’s going to take at least three days to get the layout back to where it was, and this forces me, once again, to consider the virtues of print versus electronic. Perhaps a mini-issue to accompany a website launch? Blurbs of articles with the full-text online? Any thoughts would be welcome.
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