Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Amusing Errors...

So, today I was looking at something online at an official (i.e. Amazon, Google, MSN) web site when I clicked on an internal link and got the most amusing error message:

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500 Internal Server Error

Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. Please report this incident to customer service.

Also, please include the following information in your error report:
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The part about the monkeys made me laugh but what is even more amusing to me is the information they wanted me to give them (that mass of characters). My first thought upon reading that line was an image of a person getting that mass in an email, glancing at it, and then pointing at one one specific line or character and saying "Yep, there's the problem right there." More than likely, this is just an error that was never replaced with more userfriendly messages/code. Anyways, I just thought this was amusing.

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