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Niraj Chokshi

Niraj Chokshi - Niraj Chokshi is a former staff editor at TheAtlantic.com, where he wrote about technology. He is currently freelancing and can be reached through his personal website, NirajC.com.
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Niraj previously reported on the business of the nation's largest law firms for The Recorder, a San Francisco legal newspaper. He has also been published in The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Times and The Age, in Melbourne, Australia. He's also a longtime programmer and sometimes website designer.

The Strength of North Korea's Code

By Niraj Chokshi
Jul 30 2010, 11:25 AM ET Comment

The Daily WTF, a site dedicated to poorly written code (which isn't always a bad thing!), uncovered a gem in the source of North Korea's official site.

To make something bold in HTML you have to flank it by "strong" tags, like <strong>so</strong>. The coder behind the North Korean site apparently got a little carried away and repeated the tag nearly 900 times in a row:

North Korea Strong Tags.png

True patriotism. Also, you should listen to this 2003 National Public Radio interview with the site's then-webmaster, Alejandro Cao de Benós. We reached out to him to see if he's still maintaining the site. (Seriously.) Expect an update if he responds.


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