My Macbook crashed...

Came back to it and the screensaver was motionless, had to use the power button to force a restart.

Had a look in the system log, nothing useful in there apart from

Apr 22 17:04:26 localhost DirectoryService[11]: Improper shutdown detected

which I already knew .

Just one of those things... but at the end there was also

Apr 22 17:05:28 bill-fords-macbook SyncServer[117]: SyncServer: Truth vacuumed. Next vacuum date 2009-05-06 17:05:28 +0100

What's "truth vacuuming"?

I have no idea, but it sounds like something a sinister government would do!

The Truth is out there

There is, however, a small possibility it will need some interpreting.

Anything here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8...

In reply to a post by ian_c:

The Truth is out there

There is, however, a small possibility it will need some interpreting.

Thanks... I think

A site search for "vacuum" brought up quite a bit, which I understood even less

That's (marginally!) more comprehensible, though I didn't follow up all the links

Sounds like sort of sanity check, so I'll ignore it.

It would be nice if all error messages were descriptive. May not have to pass the Plain English crystal mark test, but something that describes the error in a useful, concise and helpful way would be good.

I agree, but to be fair I don't think it's an error message, just a log of something that was performed during boot-up.

And I have a horrible suspicion that the programmer thought it was fully informative

Give me 5 minutes with him, and he'll know what "fully informative" means...

What's "truth vacuuming"?

Party political rhetoric?