It’s frustrating when there’s a long delay between writing a piece and seeing it published. However, it’s even more frustrating when you finally read the published version and you think “I’m sure I didn’t write that”!

I’ve just got a classic example of the genre in the piece I wrote at Koper/Capodistria for the BCS journal, ITNow:

From: John McCreesh
Sent: 23 January 2006 12:51
To: [The Hapless Editor]
Subject: Re: IT Now / ITNowExtra

One unfortunate typo in the article as it appears on-line

I wrote:

“Consider the alternative of an open source approach, where cooperative development can be spread across multiple organizations, but all close to real end users.”

The on-line version reads:

“Consider the alternative of an open source approach, where cooperative development can be spread across multiple organizations, but all closed to real end users.”

One little ‘d’ gives the opposite meaning to the sentence

Could you get it changed please?

Thanks – John

I hope it doesn’t take them three months to get it corrected on-line…

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