I was planning to write about something completely different today. But then I came across this interesting post by André Gérard: How To Name a Publisher. Because I enjoyed it so much I tried to leave a comment. The captcha was very simple, and I tried several times, so I have no doubt that I entered it correctly. But this was always the result:

ERROR: Could not read CAPTCHA token file.

I tried to find a way to contact André to let him know about the problem, but I couldn’t. Hopefully he’ll get a trackback to this post and discover the problem.

Anyway, this brings me to my main point:

Test Your Blog

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As a software developer, I know the importance of testing everything. Even trivial changes where “nothing can go wrong” (famous last words of arrogant developers). Even the events that “will never happen”. I don’t know if Murphy’s Law is familiar to people outside of technical fields. Basically it says that anything that can go wrong will. Continue reading →