Archive for the 'bugs' Tag

Full Text Feeds in Wordpress 2.1

February 21st, 2007 (2007-02-21T22:57:12-0800) 2 Comments

Wordpress have inexplicably broken full-text feeds in Wordpress 2.1 but truncating any articles which contain a separator — used to reduce the length of articles on the front page.

If you’ve upgraded to 2.1 and not noticed yet (I mean, it’s not like we read our own feeds, is it?) the good news [...]

Tagged: , , , ,

Filed Under: Ben Ward's Journal

Gah! Mac OSX Text Render Doom!

November 19th, 2006 (2006-11-19T20:42:08-0800) 8 Comments

Right, for about a week now I’ve been having an issue in OSX whereby text is rendering very badly indeed. At random, characters are missing from blocks of text, be that in Web Pages (in Safari and Firefox) in subject lines in Mail.app, on captions on the Dock. All over. If you go [...]

Tagged: , , , , ,

Filed Under: Technology

Testing IE7 Revisited

March 20th, 2006 (2006-03-20T23:10:41-0800) 2 Comments

At the beginning of February I wrote about the fact that it seemed impossible to test Microsoft’s IE7 beta legally and without hacks without making a large financial outlay for Virtual PC and a fresh Windows XP license.

Today, neatly coinciding with the release of the second beta 2 preview I stumbled upon my long discarded [...]

Tagged: , , , , , ,

Filed Under: Technology

Ben-Ward.co.uk in Internet Explorer

November 21st, 2005 (2005-11-21T14:26:54-0800) 9 Comments

Jo reminded me on the phone that this site is currently messy in Microsoft’s favourite son. Since this design is going to stick around rather longer than I once planned, consider this a commitment to hack it into shape in a few weeks time.

In related news, Google Analytics reckons I’ve only got 35% IE usage [...]

Tagged: , , ,

Filed Under: Ben Ward's Journal

Microsoft Word vs. Ben

November 19th, 2005 (2005-11-19T19:20:52-0800) 6 Comments
Here I am writing up my final report and Word is doing everything in its power to frustrate me. One of the most irritating of its features is related to hung quotes (the use of which Stevie’s typography quest got me into and and I now respond to indented quotes in my documents with [...]

Tagged: , , , ,

Filed Under: Ben Ward's Journal

You are currently browsing the archives for the ‘bugs’ tag.

Categories

Ben Michael Ward.

Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.

Talk to me

Email

IM

AIM
iChat
Skype
Yahoo! Messenger
BenWardcouk
Google Talk
Jabber
MSN Messenger
talk@ben-ward.co.uk

Add me to your Address Book

  • Links