Sorry about that. Beta software snafu.

Will you please stop crapping all over the walls of our house? Especially right by the hot tub. We really hate that. Sincerely, Andrea & Brian

Being the webmaster of a University, and having to answer the webmaster@ email address, I get the joy of wading through metric tons of spam. My filter does a pretty good job with most things, but one class of spam it doesn’t deal with very well is link exchange requests. You know— the “I think our sites are similar and if you link to me I’ll link to you” garbage. A word to the wise: No university webmaster is ever going to link to you because you send them an email and ask them to. I won’t even link to half the folks within the university, in a vain attempt to keep the information architecture under control. Anyway, these link exchange requests usually go straight into the trash, but the other day I received on that gave me pause. It started out like this:

I have found your website humboldt.edu by searching Yahoo for “hotel california song meaning”.