Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

I hate sales calls. I’ve gotten a few from Sprint that have tested my patience. But only now has a sales call from a service I’m using caused me to drop that service.

This is where we find out that the permissions on Mac’s newest OS don’t always resolve properly for some software. At least we figured it out for you, so that if luck is with you and your Google-Fu is strong, you’ll find this page before going out of your mind.

Sometimes programmers are pretty sharp and ensure that their code covers all possibilities as far as unusual characters are concerned. Sometimes … well, they don’t even cover all of the possibilities for the not that unusual …

So, if you run your own web site, or if you are site admin, or are someone worried about statistics, or more specifically, what search engines are doing to your site, here’s a little tidbit of info for you. If you’ve been doing it for a while, you’re aware of “robots.txt” – a file you […]