WordPress has gone all kinds of crazy today – just have a look at this comment section. What the hell is going on? The other day WordPress did some code changes and, be it coincidence or not, since then my comments have been doing weird things. Today there’s all kinds of crap going on in there, and it’s really bugging me.
I’m one of those really well adjusted people who can’t handle dodgy formatting issues. Everything has to be just so. One of my pet peeves is when MS Word randomly reformats your words, like switching to bold in the middle of typing a sentence. There’s not a lot I can do about my comment issues here since I don’t have any control over formatting stuff, but I will lodge a query with the support team after I’ve had a little wine whine.
While this is obviously not a big deal I really hate it when things don’t work, and it’s rare for me to handle these situations in a constructive way. I tend to scrunch up my face and swear and kick things and cap it all off by calling the offending object really mature names.
Oh, and do you think it’s possible to have a little OCD? Or is that like being a little bit pregnant?
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February 21, 2009 at 1:48 am
Rick
I’m with you. I am generally a laid back person, too, but something about my computer and my blog brings out the OCD in me. I spent hours trying to get my little music-player widget looking just right – learned a lot in the process, but was it worth the time? Probably not. Well, maybe, I think it looks damn cool.
Hope my comment looks right and doesn’t send you into OCD-oblivion!
February 21, 2009 at 3:24 am
Andy
well, at least the half-mile gap down to the comments has gone – that was a pain, or did no-one else get it?
February 21, 2009 at 10:39 am
itallstarted
Oh Andy, I hadn’t even noticed that big gap was gone, so hung up was I on the weird tabbing thing they’ve got going on now! It’s great that they’ve fixed that, but look at Rick’s comment – it just looks wrong! The text should be under the date and his name.
And Rick, I’m so pleased that you understand my pain! It was totally worth the time – don’t doubt yourself!
Thanks gentleman. I’m now off to line my shoes up in alphabetical order by colour.
February 22, 2009 at 7:20 am
mjrc
i used to be more concerned with how things looked on the blog until i saw my blog on a few different computers. turns out sometimes things look different for other people than the carefully placed way you have things laid out, so it’s almost not worth stressing about.
almost. : )
February 22, 2009 at 11:29 am
itallstarted
That’s a good point you make there Marcy! I’m still all old school and use Explorer – maybe it only looks dodgy for me and fine for everyone else. Must. Get. Firefox.
February 22, 2009 at 2:26 pm
mjrc
oh dear, yes, you must get firefox. then everyone’s blog will look better!
February 22, 2009 at 6:24 pm
itallstarted
Hmmm. Well I’m all firefoxed up now but it makes more of a difference backstage in my admin section than it seems to anywhere out here! The comments still look crap. Guess I’ll just have to cope!
February 23, 2009 at 1:45 pm
June
From someone who is currently massively OCD, I can say that it is possible to be a little OCD–mine tends to ’spike’ where it’s worse & then not as bad & so on like waves… just found your blog because of a search for punk covers. Glad I found it! I have 20/800 vision which is uncorrectable, so I can’t really see any aesthetic problems with how your blog looks. I’ve been trying to get a music player widget to work on mine & it just isn’t working the way I want it to–but OCD + neoluddite = serious issues with machinery.
February 23, 2009 at 8:07 pm
itallstarted
Hi June, glad you like what you’ve found! Am pleased the site looks ok for you. I’m hopeless with music widgets, I’ve never been able to get one to work properly for me, that’s why I use the basic WordPress audio player! Hope you figure it out soon, and thanks for stopping by.