Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category

Royal Mail airsure track and trace: “Sorry. There is no data …”

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...

TM Streamyx and telephone down Port Dickson area 24th February 2011

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Sometime around 3pm the Internet connection died. The phone is also dead (no dialtone). There's no sign of my friendly local technicians at the local switchbox, so perhaps it's not just this area. Then again, perhaps nobody knows. I tried to fill in a "Contact Us" form at www.tm.com.my but ...

Google, Bing, other search engines OpenSearch link missing?

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...

Pos Malaysia Shipping rates / quotations for osCommerce and Zen Cart

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Pos Malaysia have updated their website in the last few days, with new page markup and new URLs. Either one of those changes would have broken the old osCommerce shipping modules I wrote. I won't be updating the old shipping modules any more, as random, non-improving changes to postal service ...

Expires header fails, max-age works: RFC1123 compliance

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

While I was testing the mobile version of the search at spider.my I noticed that my Nokia phone's browser was briefly presenting an unformatted version of the page, then applying styles, then adding a small image. Doing that once would have been expected, but it shouldn't have been doing it ...