It's not being able to type.
I bring this point up after yet another effing blog article of mine was published with a bloody typo in it. Not your everyday type of typo, but one in the bloody headline.
I look like such an ass.
You would think that a very easy to use, brilliant blog provider such as Blogger.ca would have a proper spell check on it - but no... it only appears when you switch to the HTML view.
Ah crap. I'm not blaming Blogger.ca.
I blame myself. I tend to actually spell check everything nowadays... but not the headline.
I did it last on an article I published about 10 minutes ago on Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife... my blog about Japan. It's there under the Favorite Blog section and is well-worth the read even if you have no interest in Japan as there is often some cool stuff you could use to amaze your friends.No... I don't really believe that, but ya can't blame a guy for trying to amp up the readership.
I had written the piece about three hours earlier with only the title in mind. It was the first thing I wrote. Actually... I had written that title down about two months earlier, as I often jot stuff down onto the blog template and save them as drafts because I usually have topics to write about well in advance of me actually writing them.
As such... whatever the heck I wrote down... I did it a while back and obviously did not feel the need to double check the spelling of it.
I feel like such a schmuck.
And do you know what bothers me the most about the mistake? It's the fact that I... a writer of three blogs, have had 20+ comic book stories published and a few hundred magazine articles published and even more newspaper articles published by a national paper here in Canada... have no idea how to type.
I can even play the piano and accordion and the clarinet (all woodwinds and keyboards and brass, actually) and have nimble fingers. But... I can't type.
I use four fingers. Three on the right (thumb, index and middle) and the index finger on the left. The index finger is your nose picking finger in case you wondered.
I'm quick... hitting about 65 words a minute.. or as I frequently joke, about 65 mistakes a minute. I say that joke often enough because it's true to a degree... so you think I would check for mistakes.
It really ticks me off. Here I am trying to enlarge my reading pool, and I do a rookie boner mistake.
While readership on THIS blog is low, but steady, I have been making decent strides on the blogs I do on Japan and the other secret one written under a pseudonym.... with those two getting over 40,000 hits a month.
And to make mistakes because I can't type?!
Do you know what I hate?
Not being able to type.
