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Background information: few weeks ago I wrote a script to be able to set Aubrey's wallpaper from my own laptop. In effect to be able to set her wallpaper from Amsterdam while she is in London (the process uses our web server as data broker, so the communication between the two computers is totally asynchronous). Then, of course, I attached it to a cron job to do it every so often, so I don't need to remember to do it...

The below just happened by email

[Aubrey] when I opened my laptop, I could not see the wallpaper you sent me but only a blue colour background. Why?

[Pascal] Go to system preferences and change the refresh time from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. and tell me if you got the new picture.

[Aubrey] yes, after changed the time from 5 to 15 mins, I have got the wallpaper.

[Pascal] Ok so for your information the problem had nothing to do with the time, it was something different but I knew that changing the time would do the other thing I wanted.

[Aubrey] but why it happened?

[Pascal] Bug in OSX, nothing to do with me.

[Aubrey] "bug" is not something unique to microsoft? oh my god!

[Pascal] Well, there are few in OSX, even though you need to work a bit to find them... :-)