Archive for the ‘Error'd’ Category

Error’d: Protocol Droid Processing

Friday, November 20th, 2009

"As much as I detest Novell GroupWise," wrote Ben P, "it is reasuring to that they use the much-loved protocol droid to process commands."

 

"This is the default selection on this contact form, D Traver Adolphus writes, "at least it takes some of the thought out of it."

 

 

"This is a required orientation quiz at the University of Maryland," writes Ben Storer, "I can only hope that the meeting with the Director of Student Services can help resolve the difficulties with nothing."

 

"This seems to have been addressed to the wrong person," Scott writes, "I hope Mr. MERGE ERROR doesn't mind that I am receiving his email."

 

"When shopping at the local super market for a cheap diner and a movie," Stefan Thoolen wrote, "I noticed very weird Ajam stuff!"

 

"I was really confused when I saw this," notes Cristián Romo, "I thought it would be good to look up what a ? drive was, but decided against it because I probably didn't have enough disks to solve the problem."

 

"I cruised over to the Taco Bell to grab some tacos," wrote Chad Doolittle, "little did I know that order confirmation screens were susceptible to scandisk errors! "

 

"I opened audacity and hit the letter 'K' on my keyboard before I opened a file," Cedric Mamo wrote, "the program seems to want to mock me."

 

"Here's an error I got from the game Blueberry Garden," Tyler Menezes, "Inconvienient indeed, it hadn't saved my game. Well, at least it said it was sorry."

 

"I caught this on TV the other day," writes Brian Reed, "I'm not sure which is the bigger WTF... the date in the weather alert or the fact that the cable company had a banner running on all channels telling viewers to tune to HSN (the Home Shopping Network channel) to see the alert."

 


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Error’d: Currency Conversion

Friday, November 13th, 2009

"Now I keep thinking," Staszek noted, "if I only had my 5 EUR bill left after my last trip to Slovakia, I could have exchanged it for +Infinity PLN and planned for retirement."

 

"My bank has recently switched from the dollar to a somewhat less popular currency," notes Matt Hanger, "anyone know the exchange rate from NaNs to dollars?"

 

"Even though WinLIRC created a dialog box," notes Jonathan Flusser, "it couldn't create a dialog box."

 

"I believe NetViewer is trying to tell me that the DVR closed the connection because I hadn't downloaded anything for a while," writes Andrew Lambert, "and then it asks for a favor?"

 

"I stumbled across this when I went to sign up on the Deus Ex 3 website," writes Brendan, "apparently, Eidos wants you to get information about all their products even if all you're interested in is Deus Ex 3."

 

"This came up while trying to install my new Logitech webcam," notes David.

 

"I was waiting for the bus in Halifax, Nova Scotia and noticed this billboard ad," writes Mike Johnstone, "I couldn't help but giggle at the bookmarks on the safari bar."

 

"We knew we had powerful timesheet software," writes Wes Hutton, "but we didn't know was just how powerful it really was. Upon submission of some timesheets, the software appeared powerful enough to alter the basic rules of mathematics."

 

Jade wrote, "why is it that google products can always read my mind?"

 

"If Windows has stopped working," writes Kramer Campbell "how can it say it has stopped working?"

 


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Error’d: Unexpected Accessory

Friday, November 6th, 2009

"While shopping for dishwashers," Eric Steele writes, "I came across a dishwasher that had a somewhat unexpected accessory."

 

"What a sweet bargain at Mac's Pizza Shack," Chris writes, "I mean, maybe you're supposed to write in your savings, right?

 

"I was looking for some spark plugs on eBay," writes Mike H, "and right-clicked on a product code. Who knew that was such a serious offense?"

 

"I thought I would be helpful and give some feedback on my hotel stay," Aaron Bingham writes, "but somehow, the effort of writing a review containing precisely 100 words exceeded my patience threshhold."

 

"Wait a sec," writes Richard, "did I miss the meeting where they introduced lower case numbers?"

 

"Worst... Girl's Night Out... Ever." Nathan commented.

 

"The most surprising thing about this is how little traffic there is on a fairly major road," writes Sharon.

 

"I saw this sticker on a a food service window," writes Shane Walters, "I can only wonder if their web-based complaints are down since using this sticker."

 

"I have never subscribed to this newsletter, but still received it," wrote Mary, "at the end though, it does tell me I am not a subscriber...or am subscribed...or then again, not...?"

 

"Whoops, I totally made a typo in my email address," writes Stephan Grieger, "now all I have to do now is cancel this modal dialog and... oh wait!"

 

"This was on a survey I was required to complete for Case Western, the top tier school in my field," Dan Videc writes, "they need to hire more IT guys."

 


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