loving the dot com

Recently it has come to my attention that web monkeys all over the Internet are getting all excited about Microformats and how they are “changing the web” – even one of the developers for Mozilla has started blogging about how exciting it is.

Don’t get your hopes up just yet though, it’s not as exciting as you might think.

The first line from Alex Faaborg’s blog puts it quite well into perspective:

Have you been over hearing people talk about microformats and thought to yourself ‘what are those?

To be honest no, no I haven’t. When I first heard about it I immediately assumed it was the latest semantic craze for web developers, and it seems I was right.

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Windows Vista has been on general release to the public for all of one day before this happens.

In a fantastic new twist by Microsoft, it turns out you don’t even have to have a virus or any other kind of malware installed on your computer in order to screw it up. Windows Vista’s speech recognition is apparently responsive to MP3s on websites and sounds from anywhere else.

“The firm (Microsoft) also said that voice commands could not be used for privileged functions such as creating a new user or formatting a drive.” – presumably in this case you just tell it to download a virus so it can do it for you.

Who’s going to be the first to put a video on YouTube with random speech saying “DELETE ALL MY FILES….YES” then?

Good work.