Only, for some unknown reason, the client decided that “the functionality doesn’t suit our business!” - Whatever that means.

Clients dream of making $100,000s with their online businesses, and seem reluctant to invest a few hundred dollars to get achieve their goals.

Do they look at the work involved, or do they look at the time-frame and think “Gee, these people are making good money, by charging $xx for a few hours work”

Corporations pay keynote speakers huge amounts for addressing their staff, for a 45 minute speech. Do they look at the speaker and believe that the speaker is earning that amount of money every hour of every day?

No, they understand two main points: firstly they are paying for EXPERTISE, knowledge and experience, together with the delivery of the message

Secondly, they are understand that they are investing in the future of their company. It’s not just a 45 minute speech - its an impartation into their staff, that in turn will see an improvement in performance.

When we build a shopping cart for a client, we develop a solution for their problem, and we are developing an asset that will be paying for itself over and over

You’ll find clients that want to take advantage of your expertise - so that when you try and help them out they totally miss the point and then turn round and blame you

All we can say to that client, is “What comes around, goes around” - So when the client finds that one of their clients abuses our client for carrying out the request, maybe our client will remember how we were treated previously.

Wer come up with such a simple solution to a problem that is holding back the client’s business - and the response is “the functionality doesn’t suit our business!” - Whatever that means.

And the way the client handles it - silence.

Of late many automated spam bots have been attempting to inject scripts, spam URLS’s and such into forms, comments, etc. This also pollutes website log files.

According to Bots vs Browsers much of the script injections are taking place in the User Agent (UA) Browser field.

“The last couple of weeks have been pretty routine around here. In our logs, we’ve sifted through a growing number of script injection hacks via user agent, some if which are getting quite creative with their HTML markup and JavaScript technique. We’ve also seen some new bots, and some old bots that are very active as of late.” - from BotsVsBrowsers Website (see 2008.8.3)

The following strings seem to be the most often used (and shouldn’t appear in any normal UserAgent string).

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