At the Pen Festival 2010

At the Pen Festival 2010
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March 30, 2010

I Am Still Reeling

I am still reeling from the deleted computer files of January 31, 2010 and now something else is happening.

After working on a novel at home for like a week, I emailed it to my AOL account and my GMAIL account. When I went to download the AOL version at work, the attachment disappeared. Weird, I said. Then I went into my GMAIL account to download that version. The file opened fine, but the attachment disappeared.

It was there one second--gone the next.

Then when I went back to GMAIL, the file now appeared as though I had sent it without an attachment.

Weird.

What the heck is going on? Is this some kind of prank virus? It deletes the attachment just before you download it and then it pretends that there was never an attachment in the first place.

Too weird.

I'm going to try it again tonight.

Thanks,

Preston