Archive for November 13th, 2007

Just steer clear for today

Grandad November 13th, 2007

Reasons I’m in rotten form today -

  • It’s cold outside
  • I’m cold inside
  • My Remington won’t read my mail properly
  • My back is killing me
  • I have to go into town as my library books are very overdue
  • And I have to get fitted for a dress-suit
  • Clients are hassling me
  • I have a lot of work to finish before the end of the month
  • I have to fit in a holiday somehow
  • I have writers block
  • Did I mention my back is killing me?
  • I’m out of pain killers

When I pluck up the courage and energy to go into town, I’m going to get even colder.  I won’t find parking, and I hate tailors [my inside leg is my business].  But I have to get a suit because the Golden Spider crowd are getting very abusive and are insisting that I go.  I told them I don’t want to but they are threatening to send The Heavies around to my house.  I suppose they are desperate for some kind of celebrity attendance to draw the crowds and the photographers.

I think I’ll kill someone when I’m in town.

That’ll cheer me up.

Gripes about blogging

Grandad November 13th, 2007

I am a law abiding person.  Most of the time.

I like to abide by the laws of the Interweb and write proper code according to standards.

I like things to validate.

Now, as you may have noticed, I have a blog.  It runs on WordPress, and that validates beautifully.  However, my site fails validation.  Why?

I have tried to clean up my site but all I get is this:

validation_errors

So all the errors are caused by code from Digg, Google and Blogrush.  There is nothing I can do about this, apart from removing them from my site.

Is there any way of fixing this, short of buying out the companies and fixing their code?  That seems a bit expensive?  I know if I write to them, they’ll just ignore me.

-oOo-

Another thing that p*sses me off is Blogspot.com

Why can’t they write code that works in Firefox? 

A few of my favourite blogs run in Blogspot and they appear to be fine.  Until, of course I go to write a comment.  I click on the Comment link, and I get this…

blogger

Now, I cant see the right hand side of this little popup.  I can’t resize the window.  I can’t scroll sideways.  In other words, it’s useless.  So I have to open the site in Internet Explorer.  I hate Internet Explorer.

If you have a blog on Blogger, and I comment on it, then feel honoured. 

I’ve gone to a lot of needless trouble.