Too much and/or not enough caffeine
Indeed, I managed to “Publish” instead of “Save Draft” when starting a post for, like, the end of July. I blame the iced tea I had at lunch for putting me over the edge, caffeine-wise! (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, no worries. But dang, RSS feeds don’t let you forget your mistakes!)
I hope I don’t do the reverse and accidentally delete the paper I’m working on. I’ve had a couple of catastrophic data losses in my time, but none of them were directly my fault. So while we’re already here, let’s share some of the stupid things we’ve done! Bonus points if you really thought you were being clever in the process.
I’ll start: years ago, I was deleting pictures on my camera, and accidentally deleted the only picture of my husband at his thesis defense. (An incident which I’m sure he’d forgotten about until now. Hi, dear!)