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  • More phone foibles

    Yes, I’m still in the market for a new phone. I’m now 2 months away from the end of my contract which means that if I stick with O2 and Carphone Warehouse I can move contracts now. Except, well, they don’t have a half decent Android phone. At the moment the HTC Hero is the…

  • WordPress 2.9 and my pages!

    I updated to WordPress 2.9 yesterday. All appeared fine. That is, until I went to update a page today and found the Edit button didn’t work any more. Neither was the URL shortening for the page. And then I noticed that all the comments were missing. It appeared that the URL for the page was…

  • Beeb See Me 2

    I missed this at the time – I also got a mention (and more links) on the BBC Internet Blog weekly round-up. …blogger David Artiss was pleasantly surprised that he had some BBC bods commenting on his Wii post and more so that we’d linked to him from the blog

  • Plugin error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”

    Today I’ve had reported to me that one of my plugins (Simple Twitter Link – but I’m sure this equally occur in others) is generating the error “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode”. In fact, it generates it about 200 times. The problem? Well, it’s a bug in version 4 of PHP, so there’s not…

  • Microsoft Update – 0x8002802B Error

    On a couple of my PCs now I’ve had a problem where Microsoft Update stopped working, reporting the error code 0x8002802B. Looking this up in the Microsoft knowledge base yielded no results, but a quick Google and I found a “Fix it” utility from Microsoft. Sadly, that didn’t fix the problem. After much trawling I…