We were watching the CNN broadcast of Saddam’s capture, and saw something strange.
Towards the end, the crawl at the bottom said:
Does this work?
Didn’t think so
Looks like an debugging message I would put in a program. Anybody see this? Anybody know what the hell it is?
Yeah, I noticed that too, and my first thought was that I’ve used test messages like that too.
I think from now on I’ll just write “Testing”, since you can never tell where anything you do might come up.
Heh, someone thought the crawl-input mechanism wasn’t working, but it was.
I did that telepathically, after reading up on Psychic TV and wondering what the point of making the talking heads blink was.
I really didn’t think it would work.
Now I have to go away and rethink my entire ontology.
Damn.
Damn you, [Mudd]! Give us a heads up next time.
I’m 100% positive that CNN will never explain it. I found it pretty funny, though.
Time to let this thread die a natrural death, I guess.
I’m a FileMaker geek, and I was creating a solution on spec for a client. One set of files was going to link up with the others but to create it I needed an export file from their AS-400 which they had not supplied me yet, to get the file and field structure for that portion of the data. So in the mean time, I created a single stand-in file, “dummy”, and referenced it in places where I’d be referencing the real file once it was created.
Eons later, long after I’d finished the project and billed them and turned over the final product for them to use, I get an irate phone call because there’s a message on screen calling the operator a dummy. (“Unable to find the file ‘dummy’. Please locate file and click ‘OK’ to continue.”). (User had somehow triggered a defunct subscript that wasn’t supposed to be called by anything, and which had a long-forgotten reference to the stand-in file. Of course.)