links for 2008-06-20
by Martin Belam, 20 June 2008
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"The result, combined with the 7-0 win in Kingston, means that Rene Simoes' Reggae Boyz have strolled through by an astonishing 13-0 aggregate scoreline". Forget everyone playing Andorra home and away, this is how to deal with qualifying minnows...
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"If, when signing up for a service, you format your email address as your.name+servicename@blah.com, should spam start appearing addressed to that specific address, you can be fairly sure that servicename is the culprit". Genius.
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"I’m starting to suspect that all these metric-vs-imperial complaints are the work of a single retired colonel who believes that we could get our whole empire back if we’d only start weighing things in ounces again". Gems leaked from the BBC logs.
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"Microsoft - they talk the big talk, but can they really pull the plug when they have to? XP has had more stays of execution than a governor's son represented by Alan Shaw; now the Plays For Sure DRM kill-off has been reversed."
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"Mail Online overtook Telegraph.co.uk and guardian.co.uk in May to become the UK's most popular national newspaper website, with 18.7 million unique users". I'll be starting a review series of the Mail Online re-design on Monday.
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"Instead, he urges readers to vote for market trader Eamonn Fitzpatrick, who will pack up his market stall for a month to campaign in favour of the government's 42-day detention plan". Who obviously can afford the cash that MacKenzie is bleating about...
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Good article but this caught my eye in the comments: "Hate to burst a bubble here but accessibility and standards have little to do with SEO". Damn right. I mean who cares if the page is accessible once you've got someone to visit it, eh?
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OMG a screenshot of AdSense using Comic Sans. This must have been a drunken prank at the Googleplex, surely?
Every time I see that Gmail 'add a plus symbol' tip my Spidey-Sense of Wrongness starts up.
Twenty years ago (I still have that email address; it gets *a lot* of spam), and no doubt substantially before that, sendmail would route any message into a folder if you appended '%folder' to the end of the addressee part.
You still see it in bang-path addresses, in the unlikely event that you ever encounter one in the wild. Last one I saw was on a business card of a bearded engineer whose satellite office was connected for email only by an hourly dialup fetch to a UUCP host.
Um, anyway. It should be a %. All this were fields. Get off my lawn. Etc.