Alex Le’s Blog

I was searching randomly for Rails stuff and ended up at the Typo blog engine site. Because the name of the blog engine is Typo, it’s unavoidable that we must have some kinds of errors on the homepage. Check this sentence out:

it reads…

Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy.

After you install Typo, a web-based admin interface handles configuration and management.

Huh? After I install Typo, then what? A better sentence could be

After you sit on a chair, a 4-leg device with a sometimes-flat interface (should be surface, but hey, it’s a typo) handles your butt-rest and butt-management.

In light of my previous post about common errors in English, I’d like to share this error message I got from the PayPal Sandbox. I was working on PayPal for a client and testing the script using the Sandbox, which is tremendously useful. However, I managed to encountered this error after a few random Back clicks.

I guess the PayPal developers have to ask the “Pimp” object to do several things: “Pimp::this()”, “Pimp::that()”, and of course, “Pimp::the_sandbox_user().” And when things don’t work out well, “PimpAbort” it.

So PayPal is pimping over the place and nobody knows about it, of course until now.

A geek walked towards the counter of a shirt shop.

“Do you have a XML size of this shirt?”

Cashier:

“I’m sorry but a what size shirt?”

“A XML size! Oh wait, a XXL size. Sorry. I was multi-threading on some stuff and my brain is not thread-safe.”

Check this out and see if you are American or not.