The power of a full stop.

I'm having one of those days.

I've just spent the last 30 minutes, half of my lunch-break sounding off about the lack of people interested in science fiction here on blogger.com.

You see I had discovered the profile page, and further, the fact that all of my interests had been turned into hyper-links.

I found lots of other bloggers with similar interests. But when I clicked on "Science Fiction." I got "No Profiles Found" and thought WHAT?

I couldn't believe that out of the hundreds of thousands of fellow bloggers none were SF aficionados.

Of course, it was me. Well actually, it was the underlying programming here that searches for those hyperlinks. You see, I had typed "Science Fiction." and there are no other people with that interest. However if I had typed: "Science Fiction" I would have discovered 7,600 bloggers. Spotted the difference?

Yes, that little "." (The full stop/period, the ., the 0x2EH) That was all it took.

So there we go. Waste of a lunch-break, going on and on about the lack of SF bloggers, and there are 7600 of 'em.

Wonderful.

Of course the server could have been a little more intelligent. Perhaps it could be. Perhaps one day it will. Perhaps, one day it will stop me typing complete rubbish and point out the error of my train of thought.

But I guess if it gets that intelligent, it may have other things on it's mind.

Ho Hum!