Comments

I don’t know if it was affecting anyone, but it came to my attention that the old problem with writing comments in IE had reared its ugly head again. I suspect that it happened when I upgraded WP a couple of weeks back, and I just didn’t notice as I never use IE if I can help it.

Anyway, it’s fixed again now, and this time I’ll try and make sure I copy the updated file to all my locations I might edit from again.

Honest.

Shortcuts

One of the innovations I find I really dislike on computers is the meese mices mousen cordless mouse with rechargeable batteries.

Now, I’m not going to argue the point too much, because really it’s me who’s at fault rather than the mouse itself, but I’m forever forgetting to put the sodding thing back on its little recharging cradle overnight. So by the end of the week I’m getting either a) no mouse service at all, or b) error messages and warnings all over the place about “Mouse Battery is low”. Today is using option a.

Fortunately, I’m a truly sad git, and actually know most of the Windows® keyboard shortcuts, as well as the Firefox ones, which means I can still work fairly well even without the mouse. It’s an interesting thing in a lot of ways, because you suddenly discover a lot more about website design, and usability in general.

For instance, looking at d4d™ itself, and Gordon‘s where we’ve knobbed about with the site navigation so it actually appears last in the code is truly useful. A couple of shift-TABs to go back, and lo, I can get to anywhere on the site.

However, writing stuff in the WordPress “Write” window is an utter, utter bastard because of the way the order has been coded for where TAB sends you next. It’s something I’ll be looking at hacking about with in the future, I think.

It’s something that I’m sure I’ll be writing more about. Be afraid.

Anti-Spam etc.

Yes, again, I’m writing about Anti-Spam stuff on this site. It gets tedious, I know. But then, so does Spam.

Anyway, I’ve just installed a couple of other items, so if you do have any problems commenting (although if it’s marked as “spam” I’ll soon resurrect it anyway, don’t worry) then send me a mail and let me know. With luck the entire process will be invisible, and shouldn’t cause any problems (although I know that Spam Karma’s been chucking out some valid comments in the last couple of days) but well, it wouldn’t be the first time I’d been wrong on things like this.