Tue 16 Apr 2002's Blog

Today seems to be a case of Small-World Scenario.

Vedant Kulshreshtha works in the London office of Merrill Lynch where I used to work. He mailed my today about an amusing error on the IBM AlphaWorks site. Go to their front page and hit the search button at the top without entering any query. You get (as of writing this) an "Agent Done" message. Play with the parameters in the URL and have some fun. Vedant seems to think IBM are "expected to built[sic] websites that serve as a benchmark and are an inspiration". Wishful thinking Vedant.

Update: Apparently they haven't even taken the basic security measures. You can access the $DefaultNav element and get to the Search Scope view, from where you can create new "Scopes". Obviously I don't condone this kind of behaviour and I leave out the name of the person who tried this first as I've never been sure if this counts as hacking or not...

Also today I got a mail from Scott Freeman thanking me for the site as he's currently learning Domino. Apparently his boss thinks he is a genius. Nothing strange there. Turns out that we went to the same school though. Now that is strange - not that many geniuses (genii ? see what I mean?) leave that school.

Another mail today was from Warren Muckell who happens to work in an office just round the corner from my flat. He's had a great idea for a simple way to create bar charts using a fairly basic view. The end result is something similar to this but sans JavaScript. May well end up as an article of sorts. So I thank him in advance...