>> Apparently this is a different Wordpress to the one that runs my blog,
>> constantly mangles my markup, and has a pretty but defective stylesheet
>> that makes bullet lists appear without bullets...
>
> You do realize that bullets showing or not in a list is a design choice of the
> theme, right?

Yes. But unfortunately one I can't change. (If I had my way, there's 
quite a few things I'd tweak - like the horrid sans serif font...)

None of this has any bearing on the most infuriating problem, which is 
WYSIWYG page editor which utterly mutilates any markup present. 
Fortunately I eventually found out how to disable this buggy mess so I 
can write HTML (semi)manually. This allows me to produce output which is 
at least half-decent. When the WYSIWYG editor was enabled, just clicking 
the "edit" button would cause the page to load into the WYSIWYG editor, 
instantly destroying all my markup. I'd then switch to code mode and 
spend 20 minutes putting all the markup back in. Now I've managed to 
configure it so that the hateful thing never shows up.

Also, apparently none of the pages that WP generates are W3C-compliant. 
They're tagged as XHTML Transitional, which is quite forgiving, but 
validation fails with stupid errors like "you can't put <LI> inside 
<LI>". Dozens of them.

More minor niggles include the fact that "pages" have to be strictly 
hierachical, and apparently you can't have breadcrumbs. You can set WP 
to email you if certain things happen. By default it emails you about 
*everything*. I've now turned most of these off, but apparently it's 
impossible to turn off the emails about new users signing up. Thus every 
day I get a dozen emails about fre### [at] qualityru signing up on my 
blog. Stuff like that.

> In any case, yeah, must be the Wordpress used by Fortune 500 companies:
> Not the one used by single geeks who fight their tools.

Microsoft Windows is used by Fortune 500 companies. Are you seriously 
suggesting that Microsoft Windows is a good OS?

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