Entries published on November 22, 2006
My site is smarter than I am
Looking through my stats today, I found an incoming link from a blog written entirely in Chinese. Now, I don’t read Chinese (I know about half a dozen words of Mandarin, but couldn’t begin to pronounce them with the right tones), so I ran it through Babelfish and found that this person was — apparently — commenting on how “comforting” my site was to him.
This left me somewhat befuddled, until I went back and looked at the comment he’d left here, and then at his screenshot of, sure enough, Chinese characters showing up on the page.
Which reminded me that, …