By: Ben Arnold

Ben Arnold — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:32:00 +0000

Sure, on a typical day things go well. And nothing is perfect so a problem here and there is to be expected and when compared to others yes WordPress is a dream machine truly. But lets be honest when saying that a small problem can turn into hell regardless the system is the #1 system in the world. I was transferring some highly sensitive material today (personal information of 100 persons primarily living in France, some in Thailand and Vietnam… for example info on where they live, their photo, their connections to other persons, those person’s photos and residence etc) and thought it would be safe to use my WordPress dashboard as kind of a word program and was deleting things and adding things to revise that information so that it would be ready to insert into a data base where I store all of my client’s and partner’s and associate’s information… when suddenly out of habit my dumb brain told my body to click “publish” and well the rest is history since WordPress super computer caught the breach of policy immediately and within 2 seconds suspended my account just as I was about to delete that page… giving me the blue screen of death. Hopefully them disabling my ability to correct my mistake, unable to delete that page and information, doesn’t mean that information is now published publicly permanently online somewhere or being copied and used by WordPress admin from India or Russia or China or wherever WordPress hires admin and whoever they may be. That’s a horrible situation that I’m sure programmers and designers and CEO’s at WordPress never imagined even possible where WordPress protocol to instantly freeze an account like that might result in another Hillary Clinton type scandal and lawsuits galore from persons of various echelons living in France, Thailand, and Vietnam such as Wall Street executives and such all clambering for their Senator or lawyer or jet or cell phone to try and fix this already done deal. And so to say that WordPress isn’t perfect is an understatement when you realize that it only takes one tiny glitch like what happened on the NASA Space Rocket carrying the Challenger Shuttle with the first female astronauts to space and exploded in mid flight… to turn life into a hell for everyone. The emergency board meeting at which everyone who runs the show at NASA came together that morning to make the fateful decision to overlook the dangers discovered concerning the temperatures that morning and approved that flight that morning probably is impressed in their minds profoundly forever (the commission “discovered” what caused the explosion thanks to a courageous whistle blower from that NASA board who wanted to ease his/her conscience a little). They can testify to the fact that imperfection regardless how normal or frequent is not acceptable. Let’s be honest and say not only that things like marriage, WordPress, swimming at the beach isn’t always perfect but that it can also be worse than hell. -Ben Arnold reachable by email at BigConversation@Zoho.com

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