Writely or Wrongly,Google Docs screwed up.
I was an early user of Writely the document editor startup which Google bought a few years ago.
One of the features they had, is that you could publish a writely document directly to your XML RPC enabled blogging platform. I was a jroller user then, but have subsequently moved to wordpress. I published my documents first to jroller and then copied it over to wordpress later.
Now to the problem. On 1st January 2006, I had written a document in my writely account named “ Why you should right align form labels?” I had used Writely’s insert image feature to first upload and then insert about 10 images as illustrations for that article. Those illustrations were quite complicated to draw, and I had to use my friend’s copy of Adobe Illustrator for the purpose.
Those images have now simply vanished.
The problem, is I don’t retain a copy of those images. Neither does my friend.
My friend has sold his latop since then, and I have gone through a hard drive crash.
Why am I whining? This was just another writely document wasn’t it?
Well no.
That post, had about 10,000 hits in it’s first week.
I have probably had about 100,000 hits till date. This article has probably also influenced the design of countless registration forms. I did not realize that those images were missing, until a few users started complaining about this.
In fact if you search my name in Google, the second result points to that original article in jroller.
That was my only claim to fame, and now Google has lost it 
How should I get those images back? Can I send a letter to Google?
The funny thing is, those images were still intact, even after Google tookover writely.
