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How about an open-ended question: What's your most embarrassing computer-related moment?

I'll go first:

I was messing around with .htacc files (as the webmaster of a small but fairly important website within the organization) and I saw a line that was commented that had something about having your own "custom" error page. Just to see if it would work, I put in

http://www.homestarrunner.com/error

For some reason, I left it in there and my boss called me into his office a few weeks later and said someone had called him asking about some strange error message they had gotten.

No real way to talk yourself out of that one.

In reply to Re^2: poll ideas quest by OfficeLinebacker
in thread poll ideas quest by vroom

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