What kind of life is that?!

Over a year ago, I wrote about a little bit of irony offered by the runtime error messages emitted from the Windows Vista ultimate testdrive site (which I just checked again, this time with IE6 and happens to choke on another bug).

Anyway, I just found another gem in this category. In search for MS Visual Studio Express, I bumped into an ad for the "Defy All Challenges" campaign on the Dutch Microsoft site. The site shows a picture of a pirate captain that is titled "A Developer's Life for me" and below is some text that invites other brave developers to "Defy all challenges" with Microsft Visual Studio 2008. I took a snapshot for posterity:



Unfortunately, as soon as you visit the site (I'm using IE 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 right now), you get a messagebox informing you that a javascript runtime error has occurred ("Object Expected"). So I'm afraid it's a case of "A bug's life" rather than "A Developer's life".