Archive for September, 2008

What not to index

Reading 27 Pakistani scientist being included in a swine list on a comment sort of got me curious. You can see the exact text in the upper portion of the image (or here).

Clicking on the actual link however takes you to Tech Lahore’s story page where the bread crumbs were indexed as a part of the comment summary. While it did introduce a funny (and I am pretty sure, unintentional) comment, it should not have been indexed in the first place. The reason ‘might be’ that the navigation list was not assigned a separate div in the template. I wonder if it can be avoided by updating the template.

Structural Ambiguity

I have a mail in my inbox which goes like this.

Can any body inform me about a good girls hostel near Govt College / District Courts/Secretariat Lahore.

Ignoring the lack of a apostrophe, its one of the rare occasions that I actually notice structural ambiguity in a mail. I am sure the sender intended to ask about a good girls’ hostel and not a good girls’ hostel. Good girls go to heaven.

(This post was posted using Deepest Sender, a Firefox WordPress plugin, just want to check if it works.)