http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog Ramblings of a geek Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:59:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems as though every time I open my favourite news sites or turn on a technology strand on TV, someone is talking about social network sites. They are usually declaring their evils, claiming them to be the haunts of pedophiles and criminals, or just pointing out the amount of ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/10/01/society-and-the-net/ After three hours of staring at books, installing a plug in for Firefox that allows me to render pages (screenshots only, but good for clues) as various versions of Internet Explorer and tearing out my hair, I figured out the problem. I even worked out why the layout worked a ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/09/25/ie6-is-not-broken-but-does-behave-oddly/ After my triumphant declaration yesterday that I had fixed all the compatibility errors, it turns out that the blog is now broken in IE6. This would be the blog that worked perfectly in IE6 but broke in IE7, of course! More frustratingly, when I restore the old theme (without the modifications) ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/09/24/still-ironing-out-those-compatibility-errors/ A while ago I noticed that the Blogroll had disappeared from this blog. As with so many things during my final months at my previous job, I just didn't have time to dig through the WordPress documentation to find out why. Today I did some nosing around and discovered that the ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/09/23/upgrading-wordpress-tags/ I have been intending to go in and fix Above the Fold for months. Months and months and months. Why? When Internet Explorer 7 was released they fixed a number of the escapes that had been used to target IE with fixes where the CSS doesn't render correctly. Sadly they didn't ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/09/23/css-ie7-compatibility-and-wordpress-updates/ It took a couple of weeks, but I finally have a computer and an Internet connection in my house. Canada is awesome and I'm very excited about settling in here. My Internet connection is amazing - 15MB download speed and it's not strangled anywhere (unlike my ISP in England strangling all ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/09/01/connected-at-last-i-missed-the-internet/ Tomorrow I am off into the great unknown, more commonly referred to as Nova Scotia, Canada. Big step, but I am very excited. Or at least I will be once I am through customs and secure in my new house! http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/08/08/new-challenges-await/ I haven't talked about this before because people from work know where this blog is and we didn't want to announce anything too early, but next month I will be emigrating. My mother is Canadian so I've had Canadian citizenship for years. It's always been a part of my long-term ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/07/20/big-changes/ This blog has been cleaned up, dusted down, upgraded to the latest of everything and made properly functional again. Hooray! On checking the status of the blog a couple of weeks ago, I noted that the posts were ordered backwards. A quick search of the forums revealed that this was a ... http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/02/27/welcome-back-to-functionality/ In preperation for dusting this off and actually becoming a better blogger here, I'm just testing the system. http://www.abovethefold.co.uk/blog/2008/02/02/testing-the-system/