The Wily Filipino

Happy and Unhappy Accidents.

I was looking for reviews on this free Palm program called HandyShopper, which organizes and tabulates your grocery lists -- yeah, really geeky, I know -- when I stumbled upon this obviously babelfished review on Handango:

A race list by store frequented, established in the order of the rays in the field... The possibility to do to evolve his list at any moment, as soon as a stock lack is detected, while keeping the order d'achat... The possibility to compare the prices between them... More of small lost papers, more of forgetfulnesses. And the possibilé well heard to manage with his library, his music library or any collection.

Lovely, eh? Doesn't "More of small lost papers, more of forgetfulnesses" remind you of Walter Benjamin unpacking his library or something?

Speaking of errors, though, this is one that isn't so funny -- from the New York Times's errata section, a couple of days ago:

An editorial on Saturday misstated the projected federal deficit over the next decade. It is $4 trillion or more, not $4 billion.

Posted by the wily filipino at August 20, 2003 02:21 PM