On Sun, 16 May 2010 06:53:23 -0600, noRm d. plumBeR wrote:

Mike Ash wrote:

In article ,
Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Sat, 15 May 2010 13:56:37 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

On 15/05/2010 12:55, William December Starr wrote:
In , Martin
said:

The guy with the spanner was just a bit unlucky and a victim of
Murphys Law - the spanner really did fall where it could do most
damage.

Could've been worse. Could have been in a Titan II missile silo.

(Okay, that was actually just the socket from a socket wrench, not
the whole tool. It still sufficed
though:http://tinyurl.com/2u6ly2,
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.ne...lopedia/entry-
detail.aspx?entry
ID=2543'.)

True to form where Murphy's Law is referenced that URL said:

smirk

Error converting data type nvarchar to int.
[snip]
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the
current
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the
exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
[snip]
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3603;
ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3082

Don't you just love MickeySoft product reliability!

It appears to be an application programmer error.

It is, in fact, because there's an apostrophe at the end of the URL.
Remove that, and the URL works.

Which shows what incredibly bad software is supporting the thing.

The scary part is that it isn't all that unusual.

The tinyurl link worked OK.

As far as the linked-to page is concerned, while I feel sorry for the two
airmen who were blown up (one survived, one didn't), it sounds like they
didn't fully appreciate the risk. If I found that an enclosure was full
of a fuel/air mixture, I wouldn't sit down at the edge of the enclosure
to wait for my ride, I would get as far away from it as possible. I did
once have to deal with a propane leak inside a factory; I opened several
overhead doors for ventilation (manually, not using an electric hoist),
then got outside as quickly as possible. Had the concentration been as
high as what the two airmen found, I wouldn't have taken the time to open
the doors, I would just have run for my life.

--
John F. Eldredge --
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria