These web sites should be put in the dog house or sent back to obedience school
While updating one of our projects and searching for web links to a mentioned organization, I came across a site proudly displaying this lovely disclaimer: Needless to say, no content beyond the patheticly sad home page was rendered in FireFox (or Safari). Someone please load up a gun with some Zeldman and squeeze the trigger.
I got an email recently from someone trying to suggest we were inserting adds into a feed displayed with Feed2JS falsely suggested on pappamashkin blog. Nothing could be further from the truth. Heck we do not even insert a credit back link in the free service we provide. But curious, I dug deeper. The culprit […]
I use the term “people” rather loosely: What is scarier is that somewhere out there is someone who would actually reply. Ahhh, the smell of spam frying in the junk mail folder. Sizzzzzzle…..
It’s some very small things in web sites that clearly point out to me that they were (a) designed by programmers; or (b) never run through usability testing by humans. Here is today’s morsel… An email notification arrived telling of a new message posted to some discussion forum I cannot recall visiting for a project […]
Whew. Due to some malicious activity that wormed its way onto this server, we had to yank it off the network yesterday. Today was spent re-installing the OS, tripping over apache settings, trying to get those *#&$^ obscure perl modules working for some &#*#* old MovableType blogs running here. My regrets to web sites hosed […]
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten riled up by blog comment spam roaches, especially true since SpamKarma is doing a real bang up job of stopping them before they get far into my WordPress site. But wow.’. check out Tom Coates’ PlasticBag post On Cillit Bang and a new low for marketers…, a detailed […]
Spam for breakfast, spam, for lunch, servings of spam keep coming at all times. Yummy, yummy spam. And it is so personal and it speaks to me: Subject: Gastroenterology Opportunity From: “Xxxxx Xxxxx” <xxxxxx@xxxx.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:21:30 -0400 To: “XX List” <xxxx@xxx.com> Hello Doctor, How are you? I understand that you are […]
I think someone slipped a red pill in my cheerios… I don’t know about you, but the unit of time “business days” has as much meaning as if you said to me, “I will have that ready for you in about 67hdHysuR%dsa87s*jkL days. I took my dead iBook to the Apple Store for repair on […]
If any readers really think I know what the _____ I am doing with web server technology, please let this morning’s adventure convince you otherwise. By one fell swoop/click, I managed to knock this whole server out of whack. I was trying to do set up a temporary ftp access so a colleague could transmit […]
I’ve been guilty of this several times over, but its easy to fall into the Field of Dreams Syndrome (FoDS) by focusing on the construction of the place (“build a virtual community and they will come”). I’ve rambled before about this, that if you look at real communities of people, it is just more than […]
