As everyone should know now due to the blogstorm, Sitemeter hurts a whole bunch of sites on Friday and Saturday. The javascript code went wonky and shut down anyone using IE to look at the sites.

I find it hilarious that many of the folks who had sites affected had no idea and went about normal business, simply because they used Firefox, Safari or Opera and did not notice anything wrong. I just wonder how many people completely reformatted machines to remedy the problem. There were lots of fixes discussed on webpages that people couldn’t read, so I guess that is understandable.

Its also hilarious since on Friday night I was about to go to Sitemeter to see what they were all about and saw the news on Friendfeed before I made it to the site. Thanks Friendfeed, I will not be able to make fun of you for some time.

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