jemjabella

Google May Harm Your Computer

I think Google is having a bit of a FAIL day. I just did a search for "prerogative" to ensure I was using the right spelling (that first 'r' occasionally catches me out) only to be told that Wikipedia may harm my computer:

I thought, eh.. never thought I'd see the day that wikipedia is caught out by spyware! However, I checked the source and there was no sign of any malicious code. So, on the off chance, I googled "cheese", and then "jemjabella". All links are showing "This site may harm your computer."

I wonder how long it's been like this for...

Update: it's been fixed.

Feedburner 'sploded?

What the bloody hell has gone wrong with Feedburner? I logged in yesterday to try and figure out why my feed subscriber count had dropped from 561 (highest it's ever been) to two hundred and something, to see a notice from Google about the whole shebang moving over to feedburner.google.com.

"Click here to move your account" etc... so I did. Only today, I'm down to 175 subscribers. Either Google have right royally screwed something up, or Feedburner have been staggeringly over-reporting subscribers for months. One things for sure, there's several sets of users missing from my subscriber info (e.g. there's zero Firefox Live Bookmarks readers, which I know is total tosh), and so something is definitely not right.

Have any of you guys had any problems getting to my feed? Any feedburner users experiencing similar problems?

3,460,000 People Missing an Opportunity

As a NoScript user (for the sake of speed and security), I'm sick of seeing the words 'Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting' so out of interest I did a little Googling. Surprise surprise:

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,460,000 for "Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting"

That's 3,460,000 results for lazy gits who can't be arsed to add a summary of their Flash/JavaScipt content. Just think of the possible improvements to usability, accessibility — and even SEO — that could be had by replacing that one little line with something more relevant to the content of each specific website...