Wednesday 16th April 2003
From Another Point of View
That’s twice now in the last couple of days that I’ve been pulled up for reading the source of people’s webpages. A few days back it was on Mark Pilgrim’s website, where browsing his code led to a spambot trap - I was curious as to why he was hiding a link inside a paragraph with display:none. I’m glad that he’s nice enough to make the robots follow a second link before permanently banning them, but I’m still a bit sheepish about reading pages that only a true geek would stumble across. And since you were asking Sam, I guess that’s why I was reading your html code as well. It seems like a natural thing for me to do; I needed to remind myself that I’m pretty much alone in that respect when I was out earlier; I was thinking out a routine to reformat the source of my weblog to improve the readability of the code. There’s not that much point really.
Anyway, Sam, you’re still a git. Even if Fireburst validates.
On a different tack, I wonder what xaosseed is thinking of all this. Trust me, I’m not a geek at all, at least compared with the rest of the people in this place. But from recent events, you’d be forgiven from thinking otherwise…