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I think I’m going to send this guy the biggest duck ever.

Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fundWe’ve all done it, accidentally deleted a file, maybe some of us have even formatted the wrong drive.

But I think it’s safe to say that most of us have not wiped out $38 billion dollars.

According to the MSNBC story, this guy formatted a drive at the Alask Department of Revenue, accidentally deleting application information.

If that wasn’t enough, the guy then follows this with a perfect encore:  He formats the backup drive.

*THEN* when they realize that their backups are useless.

Talk about the pefect storm.  Three disasters.  Three totally preventable mistakes, put together it cost them over $200,000 because they had one more backup.

 300 cardboard boxes containing some 800,000 applications.

The impressive thing was the following quote, from Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus.  “Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,”

I’m impressed.