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Wired magazine once defined the 'onosecond' as the time between hitting 'send' and realising that you really didn't mean to send that to your granny.

What inappropriate email/text/photo have you sent to wrong people? Are they speaking to you any more?

(, Thu 26 May 2005, 10:15)
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Another one...
Not a misplaced recipient, but definitely an OHNOSECOND. I accidentally ticked the wrong box once and took down the webserver which contained the sites for 400 schools in the local county. For 2 days. And It's not like the box was called -

Knack the whole lot?: [_]

Good lord.

In fact now that I think about it, about one in 10 pieces of critical equipment rebooted by my hand in the last year has resulted in a sphincter twitchingly long pause before either limping back to life, or collapsing in a heap.
(, Thu 26 May 2005, 11:08, Reply)

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