Speak of the Devil, and the devil he doth appear

I posted earlier on poorly designed error messages and the very next message I opened rewarded me with this error message.

A brilliant error message I’m sure you’ll agree; telling you nothing of the problem nor giving you any suggested course of action to solve it!
I think that’s been in Outlook Express for 7 or more [...]

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Why wordpress is so great.

Like many students, I got given free hosting by Microsoft under their ‘dreamspark’ initiative. It’s a great idea, but the service is unfortunately so crippled that all it did was encourage me to go and hire a linux server and a domain! :s.
It will only execute ASP.NET code from the main folder, getting a CMS [...]

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