OMGWTFPHOTOS!
I recently had a bit of a shock whilst looking at my web stats. I noticed a couple of instances of people hitting some crazy URLs in my photos section--specifically, it looked like they took a valid photos section URL and appended some URL encoded JavaScript to the end.
It looked like your typical bot spam, so I thought nothing of it, despite the fact that (in a couple of cases) the visitors arrived using perfectly valid keywords. It wasn't until I noticed a hit that had to be from someone here at the house that I figured something was up. (Speaking of which... hi Jen, thanks for visiting my photos page at 9:15pm tonight using Windows XP and IE7! Am I creepy yet?)
Either we had some sort of wacky virus here at the house, or something was wrong with my website. Since I'd just pushed a ton of updates from my dev site live, I figured it must be the latter (thanks Occam's razor!), but to my knowledge I hadn't touched the photos section, and Subversion confirmed this.
Turns out Lightbox Gone Wild! that I use in my photos section doesn't play nice with Amazon's ads JavaScript. I'm not showing ads on the photo page anyway, so it was an easy fix, but seriously... who'd have thought those two things would break each other?
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