Have seen a couple of thinks this week about Hacking... One dealt with the Johnnie Lee Miller & Angelina Jolie / "Wargames" sort of hacking, & expressed the opinion that calling links & add-ons of this sort "Hacks" did a disservice to the fine folks who can change grades & move money without the owners knowing & all that good stuff.

The second piece, at Simplebits, talks specifically about CSS, & comes at the term from the other direction:

By using “hack” to describe often necessary code, a negative connotation can be attached, even if what we’re really doing is compensating for a browser’s shortcomings. When you hear someone say: “I avoid all hacks”, you’ve witnessed this negative connotation. Heck, we’d all love to avoid hacks — but we’re also realistic, living in the real world, and designing in 2005...

I guess I chose "blogger hacks" as a topic because that's what Google / Blogger call their user-generated add-ons. Funny how language changes over time, isn't it, and has different meanings in different contexts?

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