{"id":1547,"date":"2007-07-10T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/10\/a-windows-error-on-a-gas-pump\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T19:50:27","slug":"a-windows-error-on-a-gas-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/10\/a-windows-error-on-a-gas-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"A Windows error on a gas pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mathewi\">my Twitter feed<\/a> will have seen this already, but I just had to blog about something that happened on Friday on the way up to a friend&#8217;s cottage in northern Ontario &#8212; we stopped for gas at the local Esso station and here is what I saw (click the image below for the full-sized version):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=769126422&amp;size=o\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/769126422_90e38069b0.jpg?w=525\" alt='769126422_90e38069b0.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Windows XP error that says: &#8220;The file or directory C:\\XPE_ROOTsystem32 is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.&#8221; Luckily, I was still able to get gas  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A quick check of Flickr shows that there is a universe of similar shots, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peterkaminski\/30196012\/\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/martineian\/485029758\/\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27447877@N00\/3242903\/\">this one<\/a> &#8212; and for some Canadian content, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jkparker\/986910\/\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who subscribe to my Twitter feed will have seen this already, but I just had to blog about something that happened on Friday on the way up to a friend&#8217;s cottage in northern Ontario &#8212; we stopped for gas at the local Esso station and here is what I saw (click the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/10\/a-windows-error-on-a-gas-pump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Windows error on a gas pump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}