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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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Working on a mailshot system
...for a client, in my first month on my first job out of university. I decided to send some test data through it first, and selected Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum".

Unfortunately, the code I had written to activate "test mode" was not working.

By the time I realised and shut down the mail queue, the poem had gone out to thousands of customers...
(, Thu 26 May 2005, 16:22, Reply)

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