In my last 'Writing for the web' class we we discussing the merits of the following article:
www.useit.com/alertbox/9695.html . The article looks at 10 areas of websites that tend to get visitors out of sorts. Some of my comments as to the causes of bad searches regarded meta tags that weren't specific enough and/or did not allow for misspellings and bad page titles which do not clearly reflect the actual page content etc.

Some of my current peeves with websites are: pop ups, banner ads, flashing icons, animations, broken links and bad writing. Especially pop ups! Those dang things drive me absolutely crazy - especially if they are the ones that keep taking you to some disgusting porno site!! Thank the web gods for Pop Up Blockers!!

Watched "An Inconvenient Truth" the other day. I am not too sure I agree with everything but I DO agree that global warming is a problem that has been ignored for much too long. Scientists have been warning us of the problem for many years; it is too bad that so many politicians and policy makers ignored them. Maybe the problem would not be quite so dire if they had have listened all those years ago and started to work on better policies then. Ahh well, I am just one small voice in the maelstrom of propaganda. I wonder if enough small voices could, together, drown out the wild yammering of industry crying the blues over imagined lost revenue.

That's it for today

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