Simon Willison’s Weblog

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

Posted 13th January 2008 at 11:31 pm

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