{"id":3098,"date":"2005-01-23T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T02:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/stop\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:56:42","slug":"stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/01\/23\/stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9128,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atom.smasher.org\\\/error&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9129,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2005\\\/01\\\/23\\\/windows_errormessage.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070812183735\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net:80\\\/2005\\\/01\\\/23\\\/windows_errormessage.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:08:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:08:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7187,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEnigma%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/error\/\" title=\"Error Message Generator\">Windows Error Message Generator<\/a> allowed me to recreate (to the best of my ability) the single funniest and most exasperating error messages I&#8217;ve ever seen on a Windows machine. I don&#8217;t remember what I was doing, but I ran across this dialog box while on one of the Windows boxes at my old job at Kinko&#8217;s in Anchorage:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/01\/graphics\/98.png.png\" height=\"130\" width=\"205\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Stop\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only did it give no indication of just what had gone wrong, but it told you to stop whatever it was you were doing without providing a &#8216;Cancel&#8217; button. Just &#8216;Stop&#8217; &#8212; &#8216;Okay&#8217;. A definite funny-because-it&#8217;s-stupid moment.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/23\/windows_errormessage.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: Windows error-message generator\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEnigma%2526albumTerm=Cross of Changes, The%2526songTerm=I Love You&#8230;I'll Kill You%26partnerId%3D30\">I Love You&#8230;I&#8217;ll Kill You<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEnigma%26partnerId%3D30\">Enigma<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DEnigma%2526albumTerm=Cross of Changes, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Cross of Changes, The<\/a><\/em> (1993, 8:50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Error Message Generator allowed me to recreate (to the best of my ability) the single funniest and most exasperating error messages I&#8217;ve ever seen on a Windows machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}