{"id":1753,"date":"2002-05-03T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T23:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2002-05-03T18:32:48","modified_gmt":"2002-05-03T23:32:48","slug":"did_somebody_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/03\/did_somebody_sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Did somebody say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why, yes, I do think someone mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bears-cave.com\/archive\/2002_05.php#1046\">Doyce<\/a> of course mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>, but even his mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> seems designed to point a reader (or Google) to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> location which is not, in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>, since it has some rather uncomplementary things to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>, which you probably won&#8217;t find on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> site, but which is worth reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> anyway, especially if it takes Google searchers who are innocently looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> to go to this post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>, which might serious make someone reconsider looking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> to perform the sorts of domain name registry that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> claims it does better than anyone else, but which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a> is unable to do in any sort of fashion that would be considered competent or diligent to anyone but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/article\/494\/\">Verisign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, yes, I do think someone mentioned Verisign. Doyce of course mentioned Verisign, but even his mention of Verisign seems designed to point a reader (or Google) to a Verisign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2697,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/15\/confluence_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":1753,"position":0},"title":"Confluence","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-May-02 10:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Three interesting stories from today's Register, particularly when read in sequence: 1. 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