Human Kindness and the Internet
January 26th, 2009
The story starts with me, last Wednesday accidentally deleting my Music folder, rather than a single folder within that folder. Then, as I often to due to being constantly so low on space, emptied the trash. It was while the contents of the folder where disappearing – that I suddenly realised and cancelled before more than 2000 were gone.
A couple of days later I decided to retrieve from the net and cds what I could of the lost tracks. Going to iTunes where necessary. Some I knew I would miss. One particular track was ‘Dear Sir’ by Thirst. After searching the iTunes UK store, and various other music stores it seemed that it is only available from the US iTunes store, which I cannot purchase from.
It was at this point I decided to ask Twitter knowing that I have a few followers in the US. About 30mins later I got a message from @evanthornton asking if I still needed the track. I replied with a direct message telling him that I did, and expressed my gratitude of his response, and offered to transfer to him the 99¢ cost of the track.
He emailed me yesterday evening with the track and said not to worry about the cost.
Thank you Evan, thank you Twitter, thank you, Internet, thank you human kindness.
