I was just burning a data DVD in Brasero, and the following dialogue popped up.

Brasero screenshot
Ah, I get it. It’s negative because the data is going out of the computer and onto the DVD. Still not sure why it thinks I’ve got 2 billion megabytes though…
For my email and calendaring, I use Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin (which implements the Sunbird calendar inside Thunderbird – nifty!).
As you can see here, Lightning is helping me plan my morning at work efficiently, by automatically checking over 4 billion of my calendars. Perhaps by that time it has fetched all of that metadata, I’ll have been lucky enough to miss my first meeting

And hot off the press, another fail entry.
I placed an order with Amazon, and received this confirmation email.

Screenshot - Amazon email
I sure don’t remember ordering an ARRAY(0x6b390274), but hey, if it’s free…
For ages I’ve been meaning to collect together all the fails I come across and post them on my blog. So let’s get started.
This snippet is taken from the user manual of a Hannspree Xv-S LCD TV.
| Operating conditions |
Temperature |
Temperature 32°F to + 104°F ( 0°C to + 40°C) |
| Humanity |
20% to 65% (no condensation) |
| Altitude |
To 10,000 feet (3,000m) |
For those of you who didn’t spot it… apparently this TV will work where there is between 20% and 65% humanity. So, Russia?
Perhaps this is just my layman’s perspective, but this doesn’t seem like a terribly safe way to use a hedge trimmer…

Asking for trouble