Howard’s Web Site:
Quirky Error Messages and Other Bizarre Trivia

This page was created for use by members of Austechwriter—an online forum on which Australian technical writers discuss the theory and practice of technical communication, and many other things too. Most of the items on this page are phony error messages that members created, many using an online tool provided at http://atom.smasher.org/error. Beneath each item is the name of the member who submitted it to me (Howard) for publication here.

I’m pleased to acknowledge Mary Helen Taft (of Austechwriter), who introduced me to http://atom.smasher.org/error, and thereby sowed the seed that developed into this page.