Today’s bizarre and confusing error message

… comes from Microsoft OneNote when you attempt to connect to a Windows Live account that hasn’t ever been used for online file storage:

OneNote telling me it CAN open a file because there is an error…

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Today was a good day

My day went comparably well; I tried to shoe-horn 27 kids into a room containing 24 PCs – hilarity ensued. Then I discovered I have a nice group that are quiet and moderately sane, followed by my A-Level group who have been gifted with brains! They didn’t look confused at me when I told them stuff! And to top this off I had a spot of schadenfreude when a kid… Continue reading

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Communication Failure

There I was, happily Consuming some Internet and doing my part to fill popular social networking sites with noise when … things started to go a bit funny. First browsing stopped working, then Skype went offline followed by Google Talk finally noticing my Internet was offline. After some investigation I noticed my ADSL router no longer had an IP address but was syched with the line.

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YouTube HTTP 500 error

I’ve not seen this before…

I suppose something broke in an interesting way. I wonder if the block of data means anything. If it happens again I’ll capture it and see if there’s anything to decode… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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Weird things in my house

Moving into new houses is fun, they usually have all sorts of odd quirks and this one is no exception. It features crazy heating controller which has no manual and an alarm box that lacks any explanation of what the lights on it mean. Next to the electric box a bright yellow sticker warns people that both versions of BS7671 are in use and to be very careful when… Continue reading | 3 Comments

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