The BBC’s story about Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, winning substantial damages from two UK newspapers (the Sun and the Sunday Times) which falsely claimed he supported terrorism contains a link to Yusuf Islam’s site – but when you click on it in Firefox… you end up chez Bill Gates. Interesting.
I know why it happens – the BBC reporter missed a colon out of the address, making it http//yusufislam.org.uk, which their website has interpreted as http:// http//www.yusufislam.org.uk (note the space). What I don’t get is why it redirects to Microsoft in Firefox, when in IE it just gives me the standard network error. I think there be some mighty clever gubbings inside that there browser… but which give a slightly unexpected result in this case!
Wahhey! I’ve just written a whole 150-word post about a missing colon! Watch out, Lynne Truss…
In other news, David’s started wittering on about something or other. Not sure what. But it involves the names Dafyd, Jennie, Bill, Tom, Dick, and Harry. And the French language. Approximately.
Firstly, it seems that you misunderstood the wittering…..either that or didn’t read the title of the site correctly…as that was “general randomness” after a day full of essay writing.
Secondly, i dunno’ why you need the nudge, nudge wink wink, “know what i mean squire, eh?” (Monty Python) as it’s a different person to the one you may be thinking about.
Many regards
The non-multi lingual one with a website!
Ah – different Jennie. Terribly sorry. Removed the nudges and winks.
I understood that it was general randomness… but you were still wittering!