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title: "Going bananas with the referers"
date: 2002-04-19T17:46:39-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/04/19/oooaaa/
author: Les Orchard
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# Going bananas with the referers

<p><a href="http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2002-04-17-a">Bill Seitz says</a> I've gone bananas with <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ShowReferers">this referers thing</a>.  And, well... yup I guess sticking it everywhere on my site qualifies.  :)  But, it was quick to write, and even quicker to rework since I just broke it away from using DBM files and switched to a <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MySQL">MySQL</a> table.  (Wow, DBM files.  One of those ideas that seemed cool at the time.  A full-on Berkeley DB would have been better.)</p>
<p>I'm pretty much going bananas all over the place lately with all these fun things going on around the net.  I'm like a kid in a candy shop, or is that a bull in a china shop?  Well, I'm far too skinny to be a bull.  Sooner or later I'll settle down, but it's fun having a working website and mad scientist laboratory to play with after the past few years of being too much of a perfectionist.</p>
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            <div class="content">Referrer has four R's. Tim Berners-Lee can't spell. ;)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">You know, I wondered about that, but noticed that many people were using a 3-R spelling of the word so I followed the herd.  This is not necessarily a Good Thing :)  Maybe I'll correct the spelling with a shotgun search-and-replace.  The mayhem should be fun.</div>
            
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