Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

I noticed a minor bug in Internet Explorer 7. Tab is separated from the page (see picture). That extra space disappears when I move focus from Internet Explorer window.

I started to get a lot of spam comments, and yesterday I installed Askimet. This morning, I found a bug in Askimet. Don’t you just love to start a day with a bug?

This is bug report I sent.

I think I found a bug.

I have WordPress 2.1 and Akismet 2.0.

At “/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin” page (Comments > Akismet Spam) I have 51 spam comment, just enough for two pages.

There I can click “2″ or “Next Page »” link that leads me to “wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin&apage=2″ page.

There are links “« Previous Page” and “1″ that lead to “wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin&apage=” page (please notice that the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

At that page I get this error message:

“WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-50, 0' at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘spam’ ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT -50, 0″

I guess that is because I am at page “[...]&apage=” and it should be “[...]&apage=1″ (again, the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

Links “2″ or “Next Page »” point to “[...]&apage=2″ and links “« Previous Page” and “1″ point to “[...]&apage=” instead of “[...]&apage=1″ (once more, just to be sure, the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

I was very surprised today when I saw this advertisement in Windows Live Messenger 8 this morning. This looks to me like Arabic alphabet, but since I can not read it, I really can not be sure. I wonder why Messenger thinks I can read Arabic? Maybe my Croatian preferences confused it?

In any case, this looks like a bug to me. Why?

Commercial is there because somebody wants me to buy something from them. Right? But it should be written in language that I understand, otherwise I would miss it. Even if commercial is written in language I can read, it should be written in alphabet I could read. Commercial written in any other alphabet, even in language I understand, would miss me.

Maybe this advertisement is intentionally strange to intrigue me. If that is the case, it succeeded. I clicked that commercial and it leads to http://get.live.com/messenger/features.