3. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
How does that not fit in this case? Did you even read the next line in the summary?
The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).
I'll admit, I don't know how long it took the writer of the article to do whatever he did. I'm not particularly inclined to read the article since it keeps referring to "jailbreaking" an Android device which indicates the writer has no clue what he's talking about (Android doesn't run in a chroot jail to begin with so "jailbreaking" it is meaningless). However, the entire process of taking my Galaxy S from stock to a custom ROM took about 10 minutes, and the process of changing from one custom ROM to another even less (admittedly the Titanium Backup restore takes about 45 minutes, but it's also a "fire and forget" process that runs in the background). If you could share with me where you're getting these billable contracts that pay in excess of $3000 an hour, I'd much appreciate it.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach