I heard a… uhm… “interesting” story from Chris. There was a time when he was reading my blog. His boss saw my blog’s banner and thought that he’s viewing non-safe-for-work-content. I heard similar things from several other people. Or, to quote Chad:

“When I met you at RailsConf, I was pleasantly surprised that your personality doesn’t match your pr0n website.” — Chad Fowler, referring to this blog

Or, as Tinco said, “the entire Ruby community wants to read your blog, but they can’t”.

I asked, why not use Adblock? “Too much of a hassle” was the answer I got.

I also pointed out that this is just my personal blog, and that it is clearly separated from the company blog. But the response was “But there’s too much interesting stuff on your blog!”

No more excuses!

Starting from today, there is no excuse anymore! I’ve added a “Censor banner” button, as you can see in this screenshot:

The state will be saved into a cookie, so even if you press Reload, the banner will stay hidden. Therefore, this blog is now officially Safe For Work(tm).

Update: it is now also possible to hide the banner by appending “?hide_banner=yes” to the URL, e.g.:

http://izumi.plan99.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/hunting-down-obscure-gc-bugs/?hide_banner=yes

What’s with your blog’s banner anyway?

The girls you see in the banner are actually friends of mine. Yes, I know them in real life. Those who live in Japan or who watch anime are probably familiar with the term “cosplay”. These girls like cosplaying, and I like this particular photo that I shot of them, so I turned it into a blog header. With permission.