Posts Tagged nonsense

Linking permission - Posted 20:43 Saturday 23 May 2009

Three years ago I highlighted the way a company called Evrsoft decided how people could link to them. It was very precise – to the pixel – and to be honest was a pile of nonsense. A link is a link and I’ll be damned if I am going to ask anyone to link. My [...]


Facebook and a fine - Posted 11:34 Tuesday 25 Nov 2008

Facebook spammer fined $870m
“Does Facebook expect to quickly collect 873 million dollars and share the proceeds in some way with our users?” Mr Kelley asked in a posting on the Facebook blog. “Alas, no. …. But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse [...]


Forum search limitations - Posted 15:01 Monday 24 Nov 2008

Can anyone point to the experiences of forum owners that have had forum db’s crash because of searches? So many forums require you to complete a stupid damn captcha before you can Search. What catastrophic event occurred to warrant this nonsense? Which data was lost? What are you trying to do apart from monumentally annoy [...]