Today I have no agenda for this article. Today I’m just going to write, about anything and everything, whatever I can think of.

I’m not going to write into Windows Live Writer, then edit and transfer it as I normally do: I’m writing this straight into WordPress.

Now there’s a certain reader who is having troubles viewing this blog using Firefox at times. He spoke to me about it via Twitter and asked if I’d changed any settings. I hadn’t but I checked just to make sure: Sure enough nothing was askew. I was a bit puzzled as to what exactly he meant; but today he sent me a screenshot and it clicked instantly – In a way at least:

This weird displacement has happened in Firefox and IE

As you’ll note from the screenshot; the text and the widgets are generally seperated from the themed background and have made their way to the extreme left of the screen…However the page index at the very top of the page hasn’t moved from its original position.

From this I can tell that the problem isn’t with the browser: In fact I’ve seen this happen using IE7 on my own computer; so a bug in Firefox or IE it is not. I believe that I operate like most bloggers and rent a space on a host server for my domain, – With Fasthosts UK in my case ( http://www.fasthosts.co.uk ) - from which I run WordPress as my blog client, as installed on the server by myself by means of FTP. Are Fasthosts to blame? Could it be that my installation has corrupted somehow? Logical deduction tells me no to both those questions: If Fasthosts were to blame; maybe for running dodgy servers, or lack of proper maintenance, then something more would have happened – Such as the problem worsening and/or Fasthosts issuing an apology and/or an excuse perhaps. Has my installation corrupted? Has, for instance, one of the .php files lost a setting causing an error? If it had then I’d get the above mess every time rather than just the once.

So we’ve eliminated most of the possibilities: The glaring remaining possibility is that there’s a bug in WordPress 2.6. Why do I say that? I never had this problem at all when I had 2.5 installed. Is it a problem specific to this theme that I’m using? I don’t know: I don’t know anyone else who uses this particular theme. Is it a problem specific to me? I don’t know: I’ve not heard of anyone else who has this issue; but I haven’t ever asked anyone.

Do any of you readers know anyone who’s experienced this issue either with my blog or anyone else’s blog – From a blogger or from a reader standpoint? If so I’d be interested to hear about it, so feel free to comment. If enough people have experienced similar, on not just my blog alone; maybe on other blogs also, then it might just be an idea for me to contact WordPress about the issue in the hope that they can somehow fix it. (Don’t ask me: I do dos and some VB – That’s all: php is beyond me at present. (Though I think I could quite easily master it given the opportunity, time, and resources.)) I’ll blog further about it if I get enough responses in the affirmative.

28.07.08 Addendum:

I’ve been meaning to add this for a couple of days: The fault, it appears, was not with WordPress itself, but with the php in the style.css file of the Serenity-Pink theme that I’m using: Because I’d put a number of long links in the header the line was overflowing in Firefox and pushing everything sideways. The solution – A simple edit:

style.css edit

(My thanks to MaXsiM  http://mxm-studios.com/blog/ for working with me on this and discovering the problem and remedy, as well as for providing this and other screenshots.)

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PC Mech ( http://pcmech.com ) are doing an online computer help show tonight at 8PM EST – That’s 1AM BST, Midnight GMT. Ok it may be late in the day - or should I say early in the morning, for some non-Americans, but such is life in the emerging global-village. Anyone – Yes anyone – is welcome, ( Spammers and all other fuckwits WILL be banned though.) so if you have PC or Mac problems, even Linux people, or even trouble with your iPhone, then drop along to http://www.pcmech.com/live [Link now fixed] at the appointed time. This happens every week, same place, same time. - I don’t have an advertising contract with PC Mech, no: Perhaps I should have one. Maybe the owner will slip me $10: Who knows? I advertise it because it’s good – Like everything else I advertise on this blog along with a personal recommendation – If I know it and I like it then it’ll get the kkomp.com seal of approval from me. If I only advertise it because I’m paid to do so but I know nothing about it then I’ll not say anything about it.

XoftSpySE for instance – I use it on my other comp and it’s excellent. I’d use it on this comp if I hadn’t lost the keycode to unlock it. Yes I do get paid if you buy it through my ad. Yes it does have the kkomp.com seal of approval. The very worst you can do is try a free scan: To discover more and get a FREE scan Click Here!  …So remove it if you don’t like it; if you do like it and you need (more) anti-spyware then buy the full version. It finds spyware that AdAware doesn’t find; and yes AdAware also finds spyware that XoftSpySE doesn’t find – So run both why not? AdAware has a functional free version: XoftSpySE doesn’t – So buy XoftSpySE and run the free version of AdAware every so often to clear up anything that got missed: ‘Makes sense.

And finally: Oh yes, Xara. Xara also gets the kkomp.com seal of approval. I run Xara Screenmaker 3D, Xara Picture Editor XS, and Xara XS. See the advertisment I’ve placed at the bottom of this article for more.

OK it’s just a load of commercialism today as regards the second half of this article. True; I’m making up for the almost ad-free state of the blog so far up until now. I might find you on PC Mech live tonight: Look out for Pagangirl: That’s me.

That’s all for now: Take care all. x