Tech

Panic buying

It would appear it's not just the shop workers who suffer from late Christmas shoppers. The software application on this kiosk in Woolworths had given up yesterday.

What disappoints me isn't that the application might crash; it's that the hardened kiosk platform doesn't handle such exceptions gracefully. A blank screen or one which simply says 'out of action' would present a much better image than this technobabble.