Some days I shouldn't be let near a computer

My first attempt to produce a better usual-suspects submission mechanism was a bit of a disaster; a friend quickly found some nasty problems with the script. Looking back I think that concentrating on one particular reliability constraint resulted in missing the wood for the trees.

Anyway once I'd got that sorted I went to test the fixed version. I'd already set up a dummy list to test with ... and accidentally typed the runes to use the real version instead. So 80-odd people got a crappy test message.

Finally when I announced the new submission mechanism to the people who get to use it, I included a relevant typo in the instructions, and had to send a correction immediately afterwards.

APOD

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ is the "astronomy picture of the day". My computer checks it periodically and installs the picture it finds as a backdrop. Usually they are quite pretty. Today however it was entirely beige ("the average color of the universe"), which is a dreadful backdrop. Each time it updates I manually set the backdrop back to black...