On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Some many months ago, perhaps as many as two years ago, I set up a php module site with the support of Technology. It was a raging fad at the time to have this sort of format used in departmental web profiles. Of course, we have since seen how easy it is for unknown individuals to post questionable materials for inappropriate activities. Click here.

My department was assigned the subdomain of "property.edmonds.wednet.edu". To make matters simple, I just had the subdomain auto-forward, or "point" to esd15.org, which pointed to edmonds.wednet.edu/propertymgt. That way, I would be spending less time updating the php site at work (and the esd15.org site at home) and only have to worry about a single website.

Well, imagine my surprise when I checked traffic counts and found a flurry of hits coming from property.edmonds.wednet.edu. While the subdomain still automatically forwards to esd15.org, esd15.org no longer automatically forwards to propertymgt. In other words, if you type in the subdomain, you are taken directly to the blog site. Try it.

Who is looking after such issues? I had to point out the earlier problem to District staff before it was corrected. I am hoping that District staff may find time in their hectic schedules to make this correction as well. I wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea.