Decaffeinated, Chris Clark’s defunct weblog

WWW? We don’t need no stinkin Ws

Sysadmins, please: the WWW prefix on URLs is a luxury, not a necessity. Yeah, it makes the URL a little more symmetrical; yeah, it helps your average technophobe identify an URL on a billboard without fuss (try throwing http://domain.com out there and see how far it gets you with the local geriatric community); but I’ll be damned if you’ll force me to use it.

Why the hell does apple.com.au contain no data? Does it really need to be www.apple.com.au? And you, bankwest.com.au, why can’t you be found? I just wanna wire some money to my roommate, do you really need those Ws to function?

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Coincidence?

It’s an odd word, coincidence. It makes perfect sense, linguistically… but it’s not very often we think about the words we’re using when they fall out of our mouths, slipshod, frightened and butt naked. Co–incidence; several things happening… together… appearing to be connected. I’m rambling.

In what appears to be an odd coincidence, images of a Panther and a Longhorn appear side by side on the preview page for Kate England’s yet–to–be–released Wild West Vol. 2 icon set. I assume the prickly pear and the six shooter to be unrelated.

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