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March 14, 2007 12:03 AM
Broken: First Internet Bank of Indiana message
"Internet Banking is temporarily unavailable. Please try after Sometime. Thank you."
OK, I'll just wait until after Sometime to find out how much money I have in my account. Gee, thanks!
It looks like
"Sometime" is a placeholder in the code meant to be replaced by more specific text, such as "15 minutes", but the webmaster never changed it. The capitalization, which would otherwise be stupid in addition to broken, is evidence of this.
bkofford: yes, it really should be replaced. They could have done the placeholder to change the "if no time, then print "sometime"" thing to a better suited word.
Though I have no idea what that would be. Possibly "Check back tomorrow" would suit it if it is a serious server crash/change.
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Sometime..as "sometime next week"? "sometime next month"? "sometime next year"? "sometime when dracula come down to earth and suck your blood"? "sometime..sometime..sometime..
creeps from this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time..(that was from MacBeth)"
FIRST!
Posted by: krizpiyo at March 14, 2007 12:27 AM