Friday, July 31, 2009

Wikipedia has an Error Message!

A while back I managed to stumble upon the Wolfram|Alpha error message, but I never thought I'd see the Wikipedia one.



Here's what it says;

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
Error
Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.

You may be able to get further information in the #wikipedia channel on the Freenode IRC network.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please donate.

If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.
Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=chess+board, from 208.80.152.35 via sq30.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6) to ()

Error: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD, errno [No Error] at Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:42:56 GMT

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A Thousand Words / World Builder (on Vimeo)

It's not too often that I find one of these indie films that's really worth sharing, so finding two is something special.



After reading more internet comments than I ever should, I'm actually kind of glad this blog doesn't get comments.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

A Wikipedia Article Definitely in Need of Cleanup



This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The discussion page may contain suggestions.


Sometimes we see this at the top of Wikipedia articles, but what does it really mean?



This.

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