Have you ever been to visit a website only to get a message in your browser window saying the site has a certificate error and recommending that you do not visit the site?  I wonder how many people are scared off from this. 

One of the sites I manage has always had this problem when accessing the control panel.  I know there is no danger, so it doesn’t stop me, but it does mean an extra irritating click every time.  And it does not affect users, just me.  Yes, Microsoft has probably been watching me for years, carefully waiting for the right moment to strike.

Anyway, today I noticed that Yahoo’s SiteExplorer sub-sub-domain gives the same error.  I assume it will be “fixed” soon, but it is heartening to know that even one of the biggest websites on the planet gets this kind of annoying bug, too. 

Much has been made of how careful one has to be when dealing with people on the Internet.  After all, you never know who you really are dealing with.  So imagine everyone’s surprise when we found out what was happening in the real world just a few cubicles away from a family member.

The Internet might add another layer of anonymity, but rotten people on the Net are still what they always were - rotten people.

With all the talk about Web 2.0, it was refreshing to read a little bit about “What happened to Web 1.0?” (Dead link removed) . I have a theory, some wise guy coined “Web 2.0″, possibly even some wise guy that I admire, as the new interactive Web. 

Everybody thought this was a really cool idea, because there was certainly no interactivity on the thousands of forums, the hundreds of thousand guest books, the blogs that actually preceeded Web 2.0 and all the article submitted to article directories.  And I am sure there was no interactivity whatsoever in all the newsgroups and feedback forms online, nor the javascript feeds that predated RSS.

I’m not sure we really have Web 2.0, as much as Web 1.1 . 

What?  Me?  Sarcastic?  Naw… 

ADDENDUM:

I should have mentioned above Yahoo! Groups, which have been around for at least six years, and I also recall when I first released my book Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum happiness, I remember setting up my own pages at Author’s Den, Published.com and many other places that gave people free reign over creating content on their websites.