The election voting period has begun. Everyone get out there and cast your vote :)
Wow, I cannot honestly believe I am writing this post today. Who’d have thought I would ever write a post about Magic Jack. For those of you who don’t know, Magic Jack is a VoIP product in the US. Known for their bad commercials and customer complaints, they’re a joke.
In any case, one of their commercials came on a few minutes ago. For some odd reason, I decided to look at their website. It’s actually not half bad. I took a look at their HTML and it’s pretty simple and straightforward. On their homepage, you’ll notice their banner:
Taking a look at their HTML, it would seem this banner isn’t what it seems:
And some of their JS would seem to back that up. Now, page counters are a bit outdated these days. But if you’re going to use a page counter, don’t lie about it. Don’t pretend it’s some indication of how many customers you’ve gained today.
Completely unrelated to programming at all, but found this item in the local news. Richmond-based Ukrops is probably selling. So long to a 70+ year supermarket chain Richmonders love.
As a general rule of thumb I try to avoid the debates on the English Wikipedia these days. I much prefer the low-drama community surrounding MediaWiki development as opposed to the drama-mill that enwiki has slowly become over the years.
I came across an RFC today in regards to a new “Advisory Council on Project Development” that the ArbCom has set up. I went back to read the original e-mail in which Jimbo set up the MedCom and ArbCom for enwiki. I fail to notice anything about ArbCom directing project governance or appointing a body to discuss this issue either.
I fear this is a major overstepping of the committee’s remit, and I am rather upset that they would choose to do this. It flies directly in the face of one of our guiding principles, that the community is ultimately responsible for the project and its direction. I understand the necessity of having functionary groups to carry out different tasks, else the wiki would’ve long ago degenerated into a useless scrapheap–some would argue it already has. This group is neither necessary nor desired, and I don’t see it filling some perceived void in the community.
For this reason, I have signed my statement of support for SlimVirgin’s statement, and I highly encourage others who still believe in “the wiki way” to do the same.