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1996 revisited

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

After receiveing what I believe was the third promotional email from my beloved mobile phone operator, showing this not-so-useful information

I was curious to see what sort of HTML did not even render images in Safari.

Behold:

<title>Sista chansen: Specialpris på Telia Mobilt bredband</title>
<base target="_blank">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.13" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#818177 leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" bgColor=#818177 border=0>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=middle>
<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #505050; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif">Ser mailet konstigt ut? <A style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #cf0566; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" href="#" target=_blank>Klicka här »</A></DIV><BR>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=590 align=center bgColor=#aaaaa4 border=0>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj1.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj2.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj3.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=top align=middle><A href="http://tr.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=250386&uid=124849854&&&http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=212313" target=_blank><IMG alt="Nu höjer vi hastigheten och sänker priset." src="http://adata.attraction.se/Telia/buss14/09-Utskick_v15/images/erbj4.jpg" border=0></A></TD></TR></TABLE><BR>
<DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #505050; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif">Vill du inte få fler erbjudanden från Telia till denna epostadress, <A style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #cf0566; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif" href="http://www.anp.se/oa/250386/4342584B72474751437243465143" target=_blank>klicka här »</A></DIV></TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML>
<img border=0 width=1 height=1 src="http://www.anp.se/Clicks.asp?sqid=250386&sid=124849854&pf_action=View&pf_Link=">

Wow – it is like a time machine to 1996. MSHTML did supposedly generate it.

Tags: funny, html
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Simple beats complicated

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Peter Krantz sent this clip from a Capoeira fight (rating: violent) which I see as a really good analogy for XP’s YAGNI and the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Tags: analogy, funny, XP
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