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Firefox slacker than IE? Surely some mistake…

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Joe

I’m currently working with some other developers creating a PHP / SQL Server 2005 based site. The division of work is along the lines of I do PHP and SQL, and they take my less than beautiful code and pretty it up. This has worked very well, and because I tend to run IE6 on my desktop and they run Firefox, we catch a lot of browser bugs between us.

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Web’n’Walk to the Rescue

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Joe

Well, BT decided to throw some sort of unholy wobbly on me this evening and I ended up being unable to contact numerous sites I regularly use (including this Blog) and also experienced extremely slow performance on other sites and mail servers.

The irony was that I couldn’t actually get to BT’s ‘Service Status’ page – it kept timing out – which I guess gave some indication of where the problem lay.

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