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May 3, 2007
Warning
Thanks to the utter childishness of Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, clicking on any link to his blog (5thnovember.blogspot.com or order-order.com) will take you to the NSFW page3.com. This is a result of Paul's inclusion of javascript into his site in order to block deep-linking.
Yes, I know the permalink is a fundamental aspect of blogging, but that just illustrates what sort of blogger Paul is.
If he ever matures sufficiently to function as an honest member of the community, then he may see the error of his ways and remove the script. Until then you'll just have to cut and paste any links into a seperate window/tab.
Posted by Clive on May 3, 2007 11:29 AM in the category Miscellany
Comments
I tend to keep out of this ongoing thing with Paul Staines but this latest incident really fucked me off, I clicked on that link while at work and narrowly avoided my boss seeing that page. Nice one Paul.
Posted by: leon at May 3, 2007 12:05 PM
Totally pathetic and pointless exercise. All it actually does is piss off people trying to visit his site from either here or Bloggerheads. End result is to hurt his (and Iain's) cause. Still maturity is something I'll never expect from Paul or Dizzy in just the same manner as honesty and Iain.
Posted by: Balders at May 3, 2007 12:27 PM
You don't think he is doing it to wind you up by any chance?
Seems to have worked.
Posted by: Little Media at May 3, 2007 2:27 PM
Little Media, from a personal perspective I'm not particularly bothered. I hardly ever link to Iain or Paul outside of the Iain Dale microsite so it is hardly a big deal. The reason for the warning is primarily to save people like Leon from possible consequences when the redirect is to a completely different site.
More interesting to consider is how Iain would handle things if he is ever elected to Parliament. If he is going to be petty and revisionist over something as lacking in importance as a blog, then what will he do if he gets caught out big-time as an MP?
Posted by: Balders at May 3, 2007 2:40 PM