Bloody Internet…

Oh man, why the hell is it so easy to get distracted on the internet.

I was laying in my bed actually doing something for my project (hah, unbelievable).

I wanted to look something up on the internet, if a hierarchical Public Key Infrastructure is really a transitive trust-model with the user explicitly trusting the low-level certificate issuer.

So I Wikipediaed (new verb! You saw it here first!) “PKI”. I see there a link to PKI, the Indonesian Communist Party. Hey, that wasn’t there before…

So I actually read about the Communists before reading about the PK-Infrastructure.

And then I wondered who put “PKI” in, I don’t think it was there the last time I looked.

The user “Idont Havaname” put it there. In Nov 2006. Did I last look at this page before than? It’s possible.

So I start reading his profile…

And land upon a list of “two cows” jokes.

I like this one:

Switzerland:
You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge for storing them for others.

Some of The Have to be Good

What?

Oh, it’s supposed to be “Them”. “Some of them have to be good.”

Yeah, that piece of typo adorns Technorati‘s new re-designed homepage, when you disable the CSS and see their motto as plain text (which is of course, the same way search engines see it).

I stumbled upon it because of the horrendous scrolling marquee they have on the top of the page, which was slowing Opera down. I hit one button to turn off their CSS, and I wondered where the m went. Was it a rendering bug, I thought, considering the have was italicized. But no, the source code reveals it was actually missing.

How embarassing.;-)

Screenshot evidence: