Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start<\/b>
\nBORK!BORK!BORK! When this vulture excuses himself from The Register’s Australian eyrie for a little rest and recreation, I first avoid pyromaniac birds and carnivorous koalas, before settling into a bucolic beach town to catch a few waves, read a few books, and tune out from the world of tech.
So imagine my horror when my pre-beach provisioning excursion turned up a bork.
You’re looking at the digital signage from the sole supermarket in the charming village of Milton, which last week showed shoppers news of printing problems before they had a chance to choose cheese or procure pork products.
As the digital signage cycled through its store of images, the bork sullied a slide promoting house brand Black & Gold, and covered a promo for lottery tickets too.
Australia’s school year commences in late January, meaning the bork also had a chance to infest an ad for snacks parents might consider cramming into lunchboxes.
Which seems rather apt because surely someone needs to go back to Windows maintenance school.
Your correspondent fumed about the bork for a while but mostly forgot all about it after hitting the beach. The shot below shows its glory at about 7:00AM one fine morning, when the water temperature was a very pleasant 22\u00b0 C and gentle waves made for decent bodysurfing.
Now I’m back at work.
And absolutely loving it.<\/p>\n