Yesterday, I learned quite by accident that it is VICIOUSLY easy to delete files in an application we use at my place of work, Rally. I also learned that one can recover a parent-type file, but its connection to its children is severed. I singlehandedly broke the connection of one little, tiny parent object and its SIXTY-EIGHT children.
Happily, the data was there, but I needed to call in the pros in our help desk world to address the reconnection. It was a mistake, but it was also a good learning experience. And a marvelous topic for a Wednesday Notifiblog post.
According to this Wikipedia article, "The word error entails different meanings and usages relative to how it is conceptually applied. The concrete meaning of the Latin word "error" is "wandering" or "straying". Unlike an illusion, an error or a mistake can sometimes be dispelled through knowledge (knowing that one is looking at a mirage and not at real water does not make the mirage disappear)."
Let's face it: some linguistic errors are downright funny. Cases in point: Malapropisms, Mondegreens, and Eggcorns.
Other errors can be good. In philately or numismatics, errors can be quite lucrative for the collecting crowd.
Most importantly, when we make a mistake, the best course of action is to try to correct it, if possible, and then to learn from it...and maybe avoid doing it again.
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