How would you like to be sitting quietly eating your lunch at your desk, scrolling the news feeds to see what’s the latest from the Dems in Denver or the world, when there before your eyes is your obituary?  Wouldn’t it cause you to pause, look around, and wonder: am I on Candid Camera?  Then, just maybe, the thought crosses your mind: “I’m dead.”  All very morbid.  But, not too far fetched for Steve Jobs - yesterday.

Seems Bloomberg Newswire was updating Steve’s obit (a common practice) and they hit the wrong key.  Opps.  They published his obituary to the entire world across the world wide web and across all the newswires.  How can that happen?  Shouldn’t there be a bunch of screens you have to go through before an obituary can “go live” so-to-speak?  Who knows.  Well they retracted it - quickly.  So.  Almost no harm done.

With a wee-bit of sleuthing, the Typo is proud to be able to provide the link to the opps.

Wouldn’t that be a weird feeling to read your own obituary?  Wouldn’t you want to edit it?

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