Comments on: 404 Julian Not Found

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:29:18 +0000

And yet the gate-crasher at your house-warming were able to find you easily.

By: Alan Green

Alan Green — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:07:04 +0000

I hope you never need to call the fire brigade

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:43:19 +0000

I know this probably won’t help you, but it’s pretty cool anyway. Apparently you can put geo tags into those QR codes. Here is a web-based generator.

Also: now that we’ve all got ubiquitous GPS devices, I’m kindof surprised that there isn’t a widely accepted practice of texting geo location information. Would at least put an and to these types of conversations: “Where are you?” “I’m around the back of Foo Street” “Where is that?” (etc)

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:35:53 +0000

Rohan, the dilemma is that the taxi driver doesn’t really want to get to to me as much as I want the taxi driver to get to me… If I was a taxi driver, I would drive off to find an easier-to-reach fare.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:32:13 +0000

It amuses me that my reputation for stupid games means that simple blunders can actually make me look cleverer in the eyes of my readers than I could ever actually be.

By: Mr Rohan

Mr Rohan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:26 +0000

This looks like a great way of sorting out those who really want to get to you and those who don’t..

By: John Y.

John Y. — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:27:17 +0000

Oh, I should mention that a couple of sub-subpossibilities for (2b) had also crossed my mind: (2b1) you were simply being lazy and (2b2) it was a sort of meta-post about being difficult to find; i.e. the post about being difficult to find was itself so difficult to find that the browser simply got lost.

By: John Y.

John Y. — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:20:17 +0000

Postmonitional indeed! (Though your “postmotional” almost kinda works too.) I was one of the saps who tried to follow the link to …something/something/404-julian-not-found in your earlier-appearing post, and wound up with an actual 404. Even before clicking it, I did have misgivings, but curiosity did me in. I figured there was approximately an equal chance that you’d (1) written a post about being difficult to find or (2) provided a bogus/broken link. Of the latter possibility, I figured there was approximately equal chance that you’d (2a) done it deliberately, to show off a custom OddThinking 404 page, (2b) done it deliberately, but without going to the trouble of making a custom 404 page, or (2c) done it accidentally.

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