Okay, having realized that most of the known world is probably browsing this thing using Bill’s big “e“, I decided to try a new theme that actually renders my sidebars correctly in that particular browser.  I was able to keep all of my widgets and my header so I’m pretty satisfied.

Good Reads

In other news, you’ll notice my new Good Reads widget.  I’ve recently joined that site.  If you’re a good reader and want to check out my profile, just follow the link on the book montage widget.

Explorer vs. Wordpress???

Okay, so I’m a Linux guy.  I still live in reality, though, and I teach in a WinXP environment at school.  I tend to use Firefox on my own workstation because I’m more comfortable with it.  Today, though, I looked at my own blog in Internet Explorer for the first time in awhile.  Surprisingly, despite Wordpress’ tightly controlled style sheet, Explorer stuck my sidebars at the bottom of my page, and tweaked half of my fonts all funky (even in my widgets!).  I tried to figure out what the issue was, and after a small amount of Googling, I discovered that this is a typical problem.  Apparently, after the most recent Wordpress update, the majority of blogs look fine in Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even Chrome… but not Explorer.

“Wait”, you might say, “Isn’t this the fault of Wordpress?”  After all, they did the update.  True, but you have to wonder what kind of funky (wow, that’s twice in one post) proprietary coding Microsoft has going on in there that it’s the only browser that screws with our blogs.

The Moral:

The point is, if you’re looking at my blog on Internet Explorer, I know it looks bad.  I just want you to know, It’s not my fault.