after some nifty footwork by perlmonger, scumbags people hotlinking direct to my images will see:
we finally decided Something Must Be Done when the image hits from Myspace et al were reaching five figures a month …
and also, we needed to do it for a new client site …
unbelievably, it’s 15 years tomorrow since Tim Berners-Lee launched his hypertext markup language. And the HTML programming language was released in June 1993.
it’s fair to say that the web has changed my life; I make my living developing web sites, for a start – and it’s a job I love. If I didn’t have to work for money, I’d still be doing webdev. And there’d be no LJ either, so think on!
there’s a nice Flash timeline on the BBC news site here (beware – for some reason it’s crashing Firefox/OSX here).
I’ve just had a phone call from someone. “Oh, you’ll be surprised to get this call, I expect”.
yes – I was. Because I had looked at his web site yesterday, and he extracted our IP from his logs (presumably), and discovering that I was a web developer, rang me up to see why I was looking at them, and what I thought of them.
now, I know that web logs catch this information – and indeed, we capture it ourselves, and analyse it. But I would never *ever* dream of phoning someone who had appeared in my web logs – I think that’s a real invasion of privacy.
am I alone?
if you ever wondered just why investors are pouring so much money into these social web applications with nice rounded corners, you could do worse than read this article by Wil Harris.
none of it comes as a surprise to me, but then I’m a cynical old bat, who believes that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
… he discovered that the NSA was using tracking devices when he logged on to the agency website on Christmas Day. He found the site was using two persistent cookies that would not expire until 2035, well beyond the life of most computers.
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US government agencies have been barred from using persistent cookies since 2000 because of privacy concerns. The regulations were imposed after disclosures that the White House drug policy office had been using cookies to monitor visitors to its anti-drug advertisements.
more from the Guardian here