

“After 25 years photographing at National Geographic, there will be no mention of Geographic on my tombstone,” he says with a laugh.Īnd, as much as it pains me to say, he’s probably right.īecause on one of those Friday afternoon drives to see Daphne in 1996, O'Rear pulled over to the side of the road and took a picture of the idyllic hill.
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Makes sense, considering the 79-year-old Missouri native was a staff photographer for The Kansas City Star and Los Angeles Times, plus spent 25 years shooting for National Geographic - where he twice landed cover images. “Every Friday afternoon I’d drive down to see her, spend the afternoon, then drive home,” he tells me over the phone from his North Carolina home. off Hwy 12, is the subject of one of the world's most viewed photos: Windows XP's default desktop wallpaper. Helena to Marin to see his then-girlfriend, now-wife, Daphne Larkin. He drove past it more than 100 times in the mid-’90s on his way from St. Now blanketed by endless rows of wine grapes is “Bliss” hill, the subject of one of the most-viewed images in history: the default desktop wallpaper for the Windows XP operating system.Ĭharles O’Rear knows this hill well. We assumed most of us have encountered it before.And then I finally see it. Macromedia Dreamweaver Last but not least. Internal Error – Computer pointing finger. User Error – This time, it’s the human’s fault. #34Įrror Deleting File or Folder – Disk cleanup always helps. Internal Error – Computers are caring too. #29Ĭatastrophic Failure – The master of all errors. Keyboard Not Plugged – Another keyboard error. #26Ĭonfirm File Delete – Delete Recycle Bin.
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Windows Hardware Update – Learn to navigate with a keyboard. Hardware Conflict – When computer starts caring about your TV. #18ĪVG 7.1 Exception – Something bad happened. Sending – Won’t take too long, just 2 billion hours. #12įatal Error – Fatal error with no error. Windows VirusScan 1.0 -The biggest virus of all. #9Įrror – When error is completely speechless. #5Įrror Reminder – Never miss an error message. Windows Error – It’s OK to have an error. Security Alert – Moving cursor is not as safe as you thought. Operation completed, but that doesn’t mean it’s error free. The next time you see an error message, just smile :) #1 We’ve also included one ultimate (and real) error message at the end of this article. Here’s a collection of 40+ funny and edited error messages for a good laugh. They edited the error messages and the interfaces to bring out the humor side of it. To reduce the level of stress, creative designers decided to do something about these error pop-up windows. However, scratching your head over these pop-up error messages will not help either. In fact, sometimes they showed up so frequent that we’ve got no choice but to live with it. They are frequent visitors particularly if you are Windows users.

When they prompted, that means our work for the entire night is screwed. Error messages are annoying and disturbing.
