This latter afternoon I was all set to save the draft of today's content assignment for the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites, when I noticed something amiss.
My posts in those websites in recent months can be as many as 30,000 (or more) words, and each day's content can amount to as many as 2,000 words.
My process involves having the main draft that will eventually be the post I will publish; and a second draft that I work in ─ this is where I place the current day's content before finalizing it all to ensure everything is just right for adding onto the main or master draft.
I copy the data from the working draft post, and then add it to the bottom of the larger draft that will eventually get published.
Well, today just before I added the latest mass of content, I noticed that the larger draft ended with a block of data that ought not to have have been there ─ it was data for an AliExpress advertisement.
Now, yes ─ I do have an AliExpress affiliate account.
But the advertisement had no business being just where it was. Normally, there are one or two such ads buried within each day's new supply of content ─ the ads never appear at the very end of the content.
So I studied the master draft, and eventually discovered what had gone awry. It seems that yesterday, instead of adding that day's content to the master draft, I had stupidly only added that AliExpress advertisement data.
You see, when I complete a new day's content assignment, I then add the one or two AliExpress ads to that temporary draft that I had been putting together.
Somehow yesterday, when I was supposed to have copied that day's new batch of finished content after inserting the AliExpress ad into the day's work, the 'copy & paste' maneuver that I thought I had performed...failed; and I then only pasted that single AliExpress ad into the master draft without noticing.
I saved the master draft, and then I deleted everything from the temporary draft and saved that emptiness, too, so that it would be a fresh blank slate for me to work in today.
In other words, apart from that saved AliExpress ad I had pasted by itself into the master draft, I had deleted all of that day's hours of work.
And now here it was, a full day later. I had even done a restart of my computer last night before going to bed.
When I realized all of this late this afternoon, I was understandably agitated and wroth with myself and the Universe.
And then I thought to see if my Mozilla addon Form History Control (Ⅱ) could possibly still have my lost content.
I opened up its history, accessing a pop-up that had self-limited itself to the most recent 500 saves of data from absolutely everything and anything I had been working on ─ i.e., not just in that WordPress website.
It took some sleuthing, but I finally narrowed down the most likely save after some 'trial and error.'
I copied and pasted today's content assignment into notepad, and then deleted everything from the post draft that I use to work in.
Then I copied that batch of data from Form History Control and and pasted it into my now-empty working draft post, and then previewed it...and to my enormous relief, all of yesterday's lost content had been retrieved!
This time, I was most careful to ensure that I properly saved all of yesterday's and today's supplies of content, and all was well again in my world.
Of course, this entire fiasco and resolution all took quite a lot of time to figure out. And as a result, I never had the time to put in all of the exercising that I intended for today.
It has not helped that I was up late last night. My younger brother held onto his consciousness after he was home from wherever it was that he had been drinking, so I sat up with him to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to fetch episodes of four of the T.V. series we follow.
One of those episodes was the series final of The Durrells ─ I will rather miss visiting that family of characters and everyone they interact with, and it was always so nice to share in their small section of pre-World War II Corfu.
I have to get this post published, for it is already after 7:00 p.m. However, I wanted to link to some interesting articles telling of research that has demonstrated how many cases of rheumatoid arthritis (and Crohn's disease) seem to be caused by exposure to a bacterium known as Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP).
The people identified as vulnerable to this 'bug' have certain genetic mutations that are not at all rare.
And since the germ "contaminates" beef, it also does so to milk ─ and even produce that has been fertilized with material derived from infected cattle.
Here is the article that alerted me to this development:
JacksDailydose.com
I had thought that the research was fairly recent, but evidently not ─ here are two other articles about it from early last year:
- ScienceDaily.com (January 30, 2018): Bacteria in milk and beef linked to rheumatoid arthritis
- NHS.uk (February 1, 2018): Bacteria found in milk and beef linked to rheumatoid arthritis
And research goes back even farther than that.
I wonder why just cooking one's beef thoroughly wouldn't kill the bacteria?
Wikipedia's article about the bacteria explains that the bacteria are capable of surviving milk pasteurization, but can some also survive some serious cooking of beef?
Maybe not. I found this statement:
It is likely that contaminated meat that is cooked at low temperatures or not processed thoroughly may contain live MAP.
That's from this 2017 study at TandFonline.com: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis – an important food borne pathogen of high public health significance with special reference to India: an update.
I also found this statement:
The presence of at least some Map in raw milk and meat and in natural waters is likely, but the numbers of Map in those foods and waters should be reduced through cooking or purification.
So it can even be found in drinking water! Wikipedia did say that the bacteria can survive chlorination.
That second quote is from research published in 2011 at website jfoodprotection.org: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in dairy products, meat, and drinking water.
I noticed in that abstract of the study that even Type 1 diabetes may be caused by this infernal bacteria in susceptible people.
I have to stop ─ it is now after 8:00 p.m.
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