Kisschievous

[j4]

In other Valentine-related news, I decided this morning that our intranet homepage could benefit from Googlesque topical Photoshopping. Three people outside our team emailed us to say they'd noticed. It's nice to know that people use the Intranet occasionally.

While we're on the subject of the web, the other half of the sentence which began "The web-browser and I ..." was "... were looking at different stylesheets" -- it genuinely seemed like the most concise way to express the facepalmworthy error I'd been making.

Our standards for coherent email may be skewed, though. Today we at Webmaster Towers received an email from someone within the University, the sole text of which (excluding sig) was "How can the University's mission statement be interpreted to include pampering to populist sentiment?!!!!" In the absence of any context, we were all quite baffled, so I'm throwing the question open to my readers. The best answer may win a prize, but I'm not promising anything.

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

methinks that's a .jpg not a .html in your first url?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Or chop off the extension entirely and let the web swerver work out what you meant.

[mair_in_grenderich]

cute.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Gah. My brain and I had a disagreement. 8-)

(Thank you!)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Your first link is 404ing.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Now fixed.

I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's actually rather sweet. [ Did your card get there OK ? ]

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

do you like tabs?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

pampering to populist sentiment

So much fluffier than merely pandering!

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Your post is far too much fun to deserve this dull answer (as, indeed, are so many of your posts) but I wonder if the mail comes as a gesture of disapproval of your Intranet modifications?

NSOH of the North-East.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

"The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence."

Populism holds that the common person's interests are oppressed by the elite in society. As the above statement is clearly elitist, alluding as it does to the selection of a group of persons whose personal abilities, specialized training or other attributes place them at the top of their field, it is clearly the case that the University's mission statement can only be interpreted to include pampering to populist sentiment by a loon.