B10[mg]

Today I messed with a script that would display a nice flag image for the chosen country (you can find images at, e.g. Flags of the World).

I was baffled by the fact that all of the images (that were in my test) were showing up fine, except for the Andorran Flag (yes, the flag of Andorra).

I checked the permissions on the images, but couldn't seem to find out why I couldn't see the flag. When I called it directly from my browser, it turned up ok! So I went debugging a little further and found out there was never a request on the server for 'flags/ad.png'.

Not long after seeing (or rather not seeing) that, it dawned on me. The top level domain for Andorra is 'ad'! So I looked in my Adblock and sure as hell, it was blocking it. (Thanks to Adblock Filterset.G Updater).

So I was on a hunt for Andorran domains and shortly after, I found out most Andorran sites are plagued by this capitalistic problem. None of the images on a .ad domain show up. Even worse, andorra.ad, existing of only Flash, doesn't show anything.

Maybe I will have to help out the Andorran people by filing a patch to the Filterset.G Updater... yeah, but now it's time to sleep (it's not like I care that much about Andorra anyway ;-)