Most regular Google users will recognise their malware warnings: “This Site May Harm Your Computer”.
It seems they’ve got a *touch* over-zealous this weekend. Today every site on Google UK was carrying the warning. Including, um, all Google sites…
StopBadware.org, the non-profit organisation that provides Google with the blacklist, is also offline.
Tech Corner and TechCrunch have more detail. Thanks to Stephen from Bony Toad for the screenshot.
Everyone knows Who’s Who: it’s “the definitive directory of everyone who’s anyone in Britain, and beyond, today”.
So imagine my surprise to receive a letter from Who’s Who. Why, they want to include me in Who’s Who of Britain’s Youngest Directors! Imagine!
Not that Who’s Who, obviously. How could one possibly make that mistake, eh?
No, this Who’s Who is published by Who’s Who Publications, not Oxford University Press.
Their strapline is “ad honorem de excellentia”. My rusty schoolboy latin understands this to translate approximately as “excellent ad revenue”.
And at £39 per copy, who can disagree? Their rigorous selection criteria include…
“[Young directors of businesses] where there has been an increase in net worth over the previous two years by at least £1,000.”
Read the letter and enjoy the full sales patter. Alas, the silver-embossed headed paper didn’t scan well.
The moral of this story? Splash out on the domains for your key products. WhosWho.co.uk is owned by Who’s Who Publications, not Oxford University Press.
Update: Some of *cough* “Britain’s business elite” are so delighted to be included in a prestigious Who’s Who Publications, er, publication that they brag about it.
Step forward…
Answer: probably not. But I think our new WhoIsHostingThis.com bot is pretty damn cool, regardless.
Twitterbots let you perform ‘command line’-style operations in Twitter (just like in Unix or DOS). You typically send a message, and get back a response via direct message (DM) or an @reply with the information requested.
How to use the @WhoIsHosting bot? It’s simple.
Just send an @reply to @WhoIsHosting followed by a domain. A couple of minutes later, you’ll get a DM back with the answer and a link for more information.
If you don’t want to subject your followers to the lookup, you can send a DM to @WhoIsHosting instead using the same syntax (eg, DM WhoIsHosting yourdomainhere.com). Again, you’ll get a DM back pronto. It’ll look something like this…
Learn more over at the all-new Who Is Hosting This blog, or more on how to create your own over at Steve Poland’s blog.
I’ve blogged about DreamHost before. I use them for microsites, staging servers and anything I need quick ‘n’ dirty hosting for and don’t want to deal with Cpanel.
They launched DreamHost invitations earlier in 2008, which let users refer new customers with extra freebies:
I’ve five DreamHost invitations codes. If you’d like one, drop me a line.
LayoffTalent.com is a jobs board for geeks facing redundancy c/o the credit crunch.
So if you’ve lost your job at a *cough* “pre-revenue” (read: business model-less) startup, post your CV/resume to be guaranteed* employers will beat a path to your door.
(* not guaranteed, *obviously*, it’s only just launched a few minutes ago).
If you are hiring, it might well be a fine place to shop for the kind of top notch geek talent that has lost jobs at eBay, Google, Mahalo, Real Networks, CareerBuilder.com (oh, the irony)…
See TechCrunch’s Layoff Tracker for a comprehensive reference.
Read more about Layoff Talent from the team behind it at the Red Robot Studios blog.
What do you buy the Bond villain who has everything?
They say…
We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations.
For when a *small* bag of bones just won’t do.
They say…
Life-size skull, humerus, hand (on wire), hip bone and sacrum (tail bone). Also contains a foot, lower jaw, clavicle, ribs, vertebrae, arm and leg bones in various sizes from life-size to mini. 4th quality bones may be imperfect, discolored, unfinished, or have missing hardware.
Ninjas: notoriously hard to buy for at Christmas.
They say….
Specially designed grappling hook folds down for compact and easy carrying. With a few twists the 4 carbon steel talons can be locked into position assuring a safe assent. Best yet, it is rated to over 800 pounds and comes with 33 ft. of tough braided nylon rope.
Nope, me neither.
They say…
Great for photographers, gardeners, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts.
As with any real estate, this soil sample is all about location, location, location.
They say…
Red colored soil sample collected from the 1947 famous UFO crash site in Roswell New Mexico. Small plastic bag containing soil sample attached to a Certificate of Authenticity.