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Friday, January 19, 2007

Cake printer barfs up error-messages

Wegman's bakery received an online order for a cake with a message in Italian and English, but couldn't process the accent characters in the Italian passage -- instead, the printer barfed out a ton of error messages in angle-brackets.

So apparently you can email an order to the Wegman's bakery for cakes, etc... including what message you want on the cake.
The cake below was supposed to be a mix of English and Italian, but the staff apparently knew no Italian. The problem? Wegman's email system also apparently did not recognize some of the proprietary Microsoft HTML extensions!

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posted by Cory Doctorow at 04:36:05 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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