More of a column than a blog. And very little about pirates, really. This be the blog of Randal T. Murray (No, the "T" does not stand for "Tiberius", no matter what you may have heard).
Thursday, September 02, 2004
My Favorite Error Message
Many years ago (almost 20 years!) I was documenting software and creating training for a large medical information project at Bell Labs. I came across an error message for a field that I got a big kick out of. It said:
Please Disambiguate This Field.
I could never be certain that the programmer was joking. Knowing that crowd of button-down programmers, they were probably serious.
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