The Web is broken for me, and it's all your fault Google!

nospam@example.com (Amir Mohammad Saied) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:28:47 -0400

UPDATE: Just uploaded some screenshots.

As you probably know Google started hosting popular JavaScript libraries back in months. Letting Google be your CDN is quite cool, to quote the project itself (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/) using this service:

...your application has high speed, globally available access to a growing list of the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries...

Oh wait wait wait! Global? Then there's got to be something wrong with Google's definition of "global". As far as I know Iran is part of the globe, and I believe you have to tell your users clearly if your mileage varies than theirs. Google has to tell web developers that by "globally" they actually mean "the World minus some countries".
Here in Iran we get silly "HTTP Authenticate" popups upon each request to that service; not just clicking on "OK/Cancel" multiple times hurts - but not loading JavaScript libraries will break the web page entirely.

Here in Iran websites are categorised in one of these three:

Those which are censored by the government

Those websites which will throw us "Forbidden" (a.k.a 403) while visiting from Iran, and

Those innocent ones which don't really believe we Iranians should not use their services, but they just consume hosted files in the services like one Google offers.

(well there's also some rare ones which works just fine, but come on they don't deserve a separate category )

So, please stop using Google's service (the other annoying one is Google code which does not let us browse project's pages, checking out from subversion repositories ...)

I call the web "broken", and it's all your fault Google.

DoD banned HTML email

nospam@example.com (Amir Mohammad Saied) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:52:55 -0500

It's always nice to hear some good news from topics you're interested in, isn't?
One of my concerns in recent years, is wide spreading of HTML emails, I do hate them, with no shade of doubt, they are one of the golden keys of spammers success; furthermore, it opens up holes in email clients, my email clients are always told to render HTML emails to text.

And what's the good news?
DoD has just dropped HTML emails support (as well as Outlook web access) and will block incoming ones. Well although it has nothing for me in direct, but hopefully it could lead to more discussions and probably, some logical solutions.

I'm Persian - Internet

The Web is broken for me, and it's all your fault Google!

DoD banned HTML email