Comments on: The banana of doom or 404 with style. http://www.mapspersecond.com/blog/2009/12/the-banana-of-doom-or-404-with-style/ Google, GIS and other things beginning with G. Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rob http://www.mapspersecond.com/blog/2009/12/the-banana-of-doom-or-404-with-style/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Rob Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:04:42 +0000 http://www.mapspersecond.com/blog/?p=302#comment-12 Perhaps this is what Arc needs - it could just throw up a funny instead of an error - "Jerry Garcia stole your parcels"? I've been using twitter a fair bit recently to spam people about my new iPhone app (http://bit.ly/4xOAvE); I still surprised that an app (twitter) that throws up the 'fail whale' *so often* remains so popular? Perhaps it detects I'm spamming people and I get it more than others (at least once in a 15 minute spam session), or it is that nothing is lost as a result of the error? Perhaps this is what Arc needs – it could just throw up a funny instead of an error – “Jerry Garcia stole your parcels”?

I’ve been using twitter a fair bit recently to spam people about my new iPhone app (http://bit.ly/4xOAvE); I still surprised that an app (twitter) that throws up the ‘fail whale’ *so often* remains so popular? Perhaps it detects I’m spamming people and I get it more than others (at least once in a 15 minute spam session), or it is that nothing is lost as a result of the error?

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