1. That string that can’t be googled

    So I was looking at old blog posts and I saw my one about looking for the string: ‘why does lvsnap_lockfile still exist’ And the fact that it was a not-quite-google-whack. So I thought I’d google it today and, whaddya know, 5 hits now. Three hits of which are me! The tumblr blog post itself, my tumblr blog and the blog page on my website. The two others were:

    c# - Will calling a File.Exist put a lock on a file? - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com/…/will-calling-a-file-exist-put-a-lock-on-a-file - Cached4 answers - 17 Feb 2009Exist() only checks that the file in question is on the file system at the specified path. It does not access the file data or headers in
    and, slightly more worryingly:

    Does slavery still exist?

    www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/slavery.htm - CachedWhat most people do not know is that slavery still exists. It is not a thing of the past. His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, GCVO (a cousin of the
    OK, so it’s been two months and I was supposed to check ages ago. But still, there we go, it takes *less* than two months for your ‘google whack’ post to get onto Google. And for someone as unknown as me, that’s probably an achievement? Not sure, I don’t know much about how Google finds all its knowledge. It’d probably be a worrying answer. Anyways, learning++
    Willow x