Unintentionally Blank

Ever heard web standards explained through the medium of hip hop? No? Then you need to watch this YouTube video on design coding. That’s all I need to say, enjoy

(Found via molly.com)

I had a giggle this weekend thanks to a Christian Heilemann tweet. Using a JavaScript document.write to print out a <noscript> element is beyond believable. The whole thing is its own paradox, document.write wll only fire if JavaScript is enabled and <noscript> can only be seen when JavaScript is disabled, the fact that the ad script that was responsible for the script also left the tag open and messed up the rest of the site only compounds the whole thing.

Stunning!

There is a lot of serious discussion going on regarding yesterday’s announcement about version targeting in IE8, so I thought we could take a time out, an short break in the heavy thinking with this brief interlude.

The UK has been slipping behind in broadband speeds recently and it looks like it will cost a lot to catch up and install the upgraded fibre that we need. That is, until the BBC reported today that it is possible to lay these super-fast broadband cables in the sewers to save money.

Is it just me or does this sound a lot like a scheme Google announced in April last year? If my toilet can give me a 100mbps connection, I’ll be happy. I’m just glad I won’t be the one laying the fibre!

Now, back to the debate!

Spam is top of a lot of people’s agenda at the moment. What with the new spam comments service that Darren Rowse has voiced complaint about (for the record, I don’t agree with it either) and seemingly a lot of spam getting through Akismet at the moment. I myself am finding a lot of spam getting into my email inbox at the moment, even though GMail is normally quite good at filtering it all out.

I don’t want to complain about spam right now though, as I received one of the less well thought out messages recently that gave me a good giggle. Very early this morning I received the following email:

MICROSOFT AWARD PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
#1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
Ref: BTD/610/07
Batch: 742701AE

Lucky Winner
You are Number(5) Amount won (1,000.000)One Million

Great Britain Pounds)
Contact our Fiduciary agent
Mr.James Bennett Claims Agent)
E-mail:claimsagentuk9@yahoo.co.uk

My claims agent from the Microsoft Award Promotion Department has a Yahoo email address? I can’t wait for the day I receive a well thought out spam email, until then I will continue to laugh whilst I dump these in the spam folder.

Had any ridiculous spam recently? I’d love to see what you get too.

Edit: More spam! I have just seen that Akismet has just passed the 2 billion mark, will nothing stop these crazy spammers?

Watching the keywords that drive traffic to your site or blog can show a few things; the interest in certain posts, whether users are finding what they search for when they arrive at your site and the amusing combinations and events that conspire to cause one of my posts to appear as result number 31 for the phrase “strange experience blindfold”.

Another interesting result turned up two days ago, when I received a couple of visits for the search top wordpress designs. Whilst touched that Google considered my design to be one of the top WordPress designs, I didn’t believe them and decided to look closer into why I appeared so high up the ranks for these keywords.

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