For almost five years, the Google template I’ve been using for this blog has worked out. It’s very basic; there’s nothing particularly creative about it; but it’s served its purpose: It’s been … functional. But lately, the Google gremlins have been coming after me. Copy composed on another page comes out weirdly different when pasted…
In my former life I owned and ran an advertising agency in Honolulu and was occasionally asked to speak to marketing students at the University of Hawaii. On one such occasion, I was asked what I looked for when reviewing resumes from prospective employees. “Typos,” I said. “If I find a typo or a misspelling…
Any of us who do any kind of writing — for fun, for occasional income, or as a full-time living — have our own personal horror stories involving typos … typographical errors. They’re easy to create – all it takes is inadvertently hitting the wrong letter on the keyboard – and damn hard to spot….