The presentation of “overs remaining” on cricket coverage still bothers me as a mathematician. “7.2 overs remaining” means 7 overs and 2 balls… but there are not 10 balls in an over! Outrageous.
I reckon they should do an “R-rated” season of #DrWho with The Stath as a cockney-hardman version of the Dr… “Fackin’ Daleks. Again.”
In fact, a version of Turkish with a “Tommy” as his companion:
Tommy: “What are we gonna do, Dr?”
Dr: “How the fuck should I know?”
It’s amazing how often asking for help, and the accompanying need to clearly articulate the problem, leads you to the solution before anyone even answers.
Michaela YoungPlacards declare "Menstrual blood is the equivalent of semen" and all references to women are removed
Well, this was illuminating. I had no idea TERFs hated trans-men as much as they hated trans-women. Obviously (?) I’m no expert but I struggle to see how the feminist principles that identify trans-women as a further degradation of female make sense in reverse. If anything the “trans-inclusive” nature of the Vagina Museum is to support “men who mensturate” and focus on physiology rather than sex/gender. If TERFs regard trans-women as men, then surely trans-men are simply women like any other? I guess that’s the TERF objection, then; the museum should be, in their view, intrinsically and overtly about women.
Is modifying the CSS on a website to avoid a paywall technically a crime? Asking for a friend…
Sometimes feel like I am literally the only person that looks at our print media and thinks “Wait, does that meet our #accessibility guidelines?”
I can only assume #Trump plans to invade Greenland if Denmark don’t do a “deal”, then
“[After the pandemic] suddenly people were used to working from home and in many cases I don’t think there was that same desire to have their child in school while they were at home,” he said.
I assume this is asserted without any evidence. Clearly this person never tried to work from home with children around.
Ignoring 404s from specific user agents with WordPress Redirection plugin
I use the WordPress Redirection plugin (https://wordpress.com/plugins/redirection) to manage redirects on our production site.
One of the more annoying things I deal with is random crappy bots that just crawl the site occasionally. Because they crawl so rarely (and inexpertly) they often look for ancient pages, or use ridiculous URL parameters (if anyone knows why they do this can you let me know in the comments?)
Rather than treat these as valid 404s, I think it’s best to ignore them completely. However, matching a user agent string in Redirection is not straight forward. To this end I wrote a Regex to match three of the most annoying culprits: MojeekBot, SeekportBot & Barkrowler.
Maybe it’ll help you too.
It’s nice to know that, even though I’m not based in an office anymore, I can still “fix people’s computers” by (metaphorically) standing behind them and watching them.