If you think of mediabistro.com as a bad-ass, 80's dojo (and who doesn't?), you know full-well that fear does not exist (in this dojo). That means we're not afraid to admit when some technical stuff on our site induces acts of head-scratching, or dare we say, hair-pulling. While our programmers (seen above) work hard to sweep the legs from under our bugs and other little site quirks, I thought I'd share one in particular that seems to annoy our senseis members.

A big annoyance members let us know about is the cryptic error messages they get when entering data in their personal home pages or freelance marketplace profiles. Logic and website law should dictate that the error should specify exactly what you entered wrong. But the legends that built mediabistro.com millions of years ago felt that it would benefit our member's mental skills if they just got a message that read "errors occurred," and leave it up to their Kojak-ian instincts to figure it out. That type of error would annoy even the most mild-mannered folk. And let's face it— you're on mediabistro.com for the killer editorial content— not to decipher messages that should be reserved for episodes of Lost. Still, there's an insider tip I'll share when you get that vague boo-boo error. Nine times out of ten, the problem usually lies with how you enter your dates on your Personal Home Page or Freelance Marketplace profile. When you assign dates to your work samples, make sure that you use the proper date formatting, as shown by the example next to the date field (mm/dd/yyyy). Another tip: you don't even need to use dates for your clips. Or you can use dates for some and not others. Just make sure that when you do use them, they are formatted properly.

And of course, Cobra Kai never die!