Category Archives: Rants

Rants and raves

Tesco Support, bad, really really bad, and accessibility failure.

Posted on 3/5/2012 by Rich

Follow Up to Tesco Contact Form!. So they got back in touch, of the 3 issues mentioned, they only talked about one. the fact I couldn’t read their email properly. Being asked if I have adobe reader to read their … Continue reading →

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Tesco Contact Form!

Posted on 2/5/2012 by Rich

This is a follow up to Tesco Spam. I had cause to use this contact form today. I had just ordered something from them and the email that came through was useless for reading without HTML, no text alternative and … Continue reading →

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Tesco Spam

Posted on 20/7/2011 by Rich

A few weeks ago I ordered from Tesco online. I then received one of their follow up emails suggesting I complete a survey, and then another and another … hourly. I wrote to Tesco: hi, thank you for spamming my … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird 5.0, what a load of crap.

Posted on 11/7/2011 by Rich

No not the Gerry Anderson one, sadly. But the pile of crap that Mozilla has released as the update to Thunderbird 3. No I’m not sure what happened to 4 either. Inbox keeps crashing, no idea why. Basic plugins don’t … Continue reading →

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Considering removing eShop from WordPress plugin repository.

Posted on 14/5/2011 by Rich

Within a year of releasing eShop I managed to get it onto the WordPress plugin repository. It certainly increased the number of downloads, and even brought in a little money – not that that was ever the intent. But I … Continue reading →

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WordPress plugin – IIS issues

Posted on 28/9/2010 by Rich

A case of strange but true tale of woe. A few versions back I added in some functionality to my plugin, eShop, for users to view their orders. I called the file user.php. A lot of my other files have … Continue reading →

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