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		blasdel on July 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: He’s Only in Field Service Why would the wordpress guys use a randomly-placed visible smiley-face gif for statistics tracking? Even an invisible one would be pointless, since they're running the webserver that's hosting the page.

nopassrecover on July 31, 2009 [–]

The smiley does look like it's floating. I assume the reason is for Wordpress sites not hosted on WP servers? Often people will be using WP without the expertise or ability to deal with server-side stats.

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