Flashes of Panic

I’m dangerous today. I’ve started using mod_rewrite with some success, which means I now have enough rope to hang my web server. Or try Kasia’s comment spam hack.

(Oh, OK: mod_rewrite is a module for the Apache web server which allows the webmaster to rewrite URLs on the fly. So, for instance, if you were a professor who still had a lecture online linking the obsolete URL for one of our category pages, well… try it. And I didn’t have to create a whole hierarchy of pages containing redirects; it’s all in the server configuration file.)

I should really be serving 404s in most of these cases, but let’s face it, nobody checks to see if their links are bad nowadays.

Now playing: A Murder of One from August & Everything After by Counting Crows