So, looking through the SXSW convention, I see a lot of people have Blogger and Typepad gear, hats, t-shirts, that sort of thing. It sort of identifies them as bloggers, on shit hosts granted, but bloggers none the less.

Any thoughts on getting a cafe press or a spreadshirt thing going for mu.nu gear - any takers?

Cos, y'know, blogging is cool and shit. Yo.

Posted by: Tris at 03:45 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I'd be more than willing to submit a few designs for consideration.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at March 16, 2006 06:21 PM

2 That would rock! And of course, proceeds to Pixy to cover costs!

Posted by: caltechgirl @ at March 16, 2006 06:48 PM

3 I like the idea!

I'm in.

Posted by: RightWingDuck @ at March 16, 2006 08:01 PM

4 Sounds cool to me.

Although since I never produced the cartoon, the connection between Penelope Antikiopoulos and munu is rather opaque...

So you're more than welcome to contribute designs that actually make sense.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 16, 2006 10:23 PM

5 Yay!

Do you want to collate the designs Pixy?

Posted by: Tilesey @ at March 16, 2006 11:17 PM

6 Go for it.

What I'm thinking is a munu 2006 "World Domination Tour" shirt, with the munu logo on the front and a list of all the munu blogs on the back.

Don't know if we can fit them all on a shirt anymore, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 17, 2006 12:57 AM

7 Which email addy should we use?

Posted by: Tilesey @ at March 17, 2006 11:34 AM

8 Nah, Pixy, with the right font, they'd all fit.

Put MuNu World Domination Tour curved across the t-shirt at the top on both front and back, 2006 curved across the bottom on both front and back, and list the blogs in columns on both front and back.

That's one worthless suggestion I have.

The other 2 cents I'll throw in is a simple "Do You MuNu?

With the mu.nu URL on front and back.

Anyway, whatever form this takes, I'm a buyer!

Posted by: Vinnie @ at March 18, 2006 12:38 AM

9 My suggestion for a slogan:

Mu. Nu?

For those of you who unfamiliar with the Yiddish, see here.

Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at March 19, 2006 09:27 AM

10 I want a mu.nu nationality ellipse sticker for the back of my car. I know a shop which can cut one for me; should I get a quote on a production run?

Posted by: triticale @ at April 03, 2006 11:43 AM

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Sorry, Pixy, but I'm going to follow Rightwing Duck into WordPress Land.

Well, you don't have to worry about it, Apothegm is going to handle the technical details.

I could just shut off comments again, but my nasty troll wants exactly that. He thinks he can control my blog.

Who the hell makes fun of Alzheimer's and thinks it's funny anyway? I've done everything I can. Ignoring him, deleting him, editing him, shutting off comments. Can't ban him, he uses proxy servers.

I need the comment moderation that WP provides.

I love MT, but, due to the licensing issues, in order to upgrade I'd have to move off of MuNu.

I'd rather go back to Blogsnot. MuNu isn't just a host. It's family.

Posted by: Vinnie at 09:26 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 No worries.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 16, 2006 10:18 PM

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I know it's been said before, but I will appeal again--if a Munuvian does not know the correct way to add Blacklist entries, please don't!!!!!! I just had to unlist imdb.com, as well as several English words that, while possibly offensive to some, might be used in comments on Harvey's or Jim's blogs.

When in doubt, don't Blacklist everything, ok?

Thanks!

Posted by: Susie at 06:51 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I just tried to leave a comment HERE and got this message:

Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:

Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: blatherreview.mu.nu

Please correct the error in the form below, then press Post to post your comment.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 03:57 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 blather?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:00 AM

2 review?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:00 AM

3 mu?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:01 AM

4 nu?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:01 AM

5 mu.nu

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:02 AM

6 blatherreview.mu.nu

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:02 AM

7 I think you're imagining things.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:02 AM

8 I didn't write it in the comments, silly. It was in the URL field.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at March 15, 2006 04:11 AM

9 And it may specific to losli.mu.nu, or a few others, 'cuz I've been commenting at other Munu blogs including, now, this one!

Weird.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at March 15, 2006 04:13 AM

10 Weird indeed.

The comments text and the URL field are both checked by MT Blacklist, so it should happen either way.

Could you try again at losli and see if it's still happening there? Maybe someone had an accident with the blacklist but fixed it themselves.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 04:59 AM

11 Just checking: http://blatherreview.mu.nu

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 05:00 AM

12 Yay! It went through this time! All fixed.... somehow.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at March 15, 2006 05:13 AM

13 By the way, have your can't-find-munu problems sorted themselves out?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 05:43 AM

14 Most favorite ones are 'Wrap Boot', 'Stitchouts', 'Cordones', and 'Botas'. All the shoes have a rubber sole which makes them rustic and permits them to be worn in all kind of situations. Vegan designs are also yet another well-liked design of Toms.

Posted by: Expensive Watches For Men @ at March 03, 2011 01:26 AM

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Broken? Or just playing possum?

Hmm. That went through okay.

Let me know if you're having problems.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:20 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I've not been receiving Trackbacks lately -- and am not sure that they have been going out when I send them.

What's the deal?

Posted by: Rhymes With Right @ at March 15, 2006 05:13 AM

2 I forgot to restart the trackback filter after the server crashed, so for the past few days incoming trackbacks have been piling up. It seems to be working now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 09:47 AM

3 Trackback filter here.

1.75 million served!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 15, 2006 09:48 AM

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Hi!

A fellow munuvian (the very sexy Celeste) wants to set up an online shop to sell her handmade jewellery.

I'm happy doing the web design etc, but does anyone know of any good places to get server space, or a good online shop host etc?

Thanks!
Tilesey (aaaattttt gmail)

Posted by: Tris at 10:09 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I see this whenever I try to send on of my MuNuby friends a TB:
MT::App::Trackback=HASH(0x8369f70) print() on closed filehandle $FOO at /home/blog/www/cgi/lib/MT/App/Trackback.pm line 43.

¿Que es?

MT tells me that the TB was sent successfully, but when I click back over to leave a comment or some such, I get the above thingy.

Pix? Jimbo? anybody? Bueller? Bueller?

Posted by: caltechgirl at 06:22 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Huh. It's not supposed to do that. I'll take a look.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 14, 2006 12:49 AM

2 Evil cowlike object. Grrr.

Fixed now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 14, 2006 01:01 AM

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I have notifications setup where readers can enter their email address to receive an email when I put up a new post.

When I write a post, I select the appropriate option and click send.

It seems that it is not going out to my readers. It is only going out to my email, and my email is not even in the list. I am hoping this is a configuration error. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am assuming that my email is the email that was used to setup MT???

Thanks,

SR

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat at 09:58 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Our database partition just got filled up. With log files. Which I enabled when we were having fruitcake errors the other day.

Sigh.

Fixed now.

This could cause issues with some of the databases. If you have installed your own copy of WordPress (or whatever) and it is having problems, email me and I'll run a repair on your database.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:34 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

...done gone broke.

Actually, I never use it, and from what I can remember, it's always been broken.

Does anyone know how I can implement a new "search this site" function? I think I had whatever search code MT provided originally... perhaps I should use a Google or Technorati dealy?

Any i-clues?

Posted by: Kyer at 02:57 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I get this:
Invalid [] range "d-c" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ 196.7.0.160| 63.207.84.250| bestphonesellerinc@yahoo.com.hk| hellen4world81@hotmail.com, macrubyphonedealer@gmail.com| mobiletradingltd@earthlink.net| nomail@dontsendplz.com|([\w\-_.]+\.)?(l(so|os)tr)\.[a-z]2,|(babes|porn|boobs)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]2,|(cialis|meridia\b)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]2,|(diet|penis)[\w\-_.]*(pills|enlargement)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]2,|(free)[_.\-]?sex([\w\-_.]+)?\.[a-z]2,|(levitra|lolita|phentermine|viagra|vig-?rx|zyban|valtex|xenica at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 3098.

whenever I comment on a Munuby site, even just the letter "X".....

Did someone ban English again?

I know it's complicated, so I don't screw with it. Can we have a place where we submit things to be blacklisted and then someone who knows what they're doing can add them in a timely fashion?

Thanks

(oops-- didn't see the previous)

Posted by: caltechgirl at 10:03 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

What on earth does this mean:

Invalid [] range "d-c" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ 196.7.0.160| 63.207.84.250| bestphonesellerinc@yahoo.com.hk| hellen4world81@hotmail.com, macrubyphonedealer@gmail.com| mobiletradingltd@earthlink.net| nomail@dontsendplz.com| ([\w\-_.]+\.)?(l(so|os)tr)\.[a-z]2,|(babes|porn|boobs)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z] 2,|(cialis|meridia\b)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]2,|(diet|penis)[\w\-_.] *(pills|enlargement)[\w\-_.]*\.[a-z]2,|(free)[_.\-]?sex ([\w\-_.]+)?\.[a-z]2,|(levitra|lolita|phentermine|viagra|vig-?rx| zyban|valtex|xenica at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 3098.

That hurts my pretty little head just to look at it!

Update: Sorry, I broke the global interweb. I put spaces in to make it better

Update 2: Oh. And this is what happens when I try to post a comment .

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at 07:53 PM | Comments (23) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Anyone having problems getting to the Admin Panel or even just viewing their pLog sites?

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /admin.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 07:57 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Chris Muir Rocks!

Hop over to Day By Day or Mikey's place to see Chris's contribution to Mikey's recovery.

Drop a few coins in Mikey's paypal while you're at it.

Posted by: caltechgirl at 06:29 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1) So, when MT offers that "quick de-spam using blacklist" option, should I decline, or should I just be looking at the window it produces, to make sure there aren't any common words and phrases in it?

2) Someone has blacklisted the phrase "beaut," which makes it difficult for Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities to comment on my blog. Can someone help?

Posted by: Attila at 06:25 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Apparently, the string "benef" is bad in comments.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to bring these things up. It's hard to talk economics or pet food when you can't use the string "benef."

Does someone have the magic to fix this?

Posted by: Flibbertigibbet at 02:23 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Lord Pixy, Fellow MuNuvians and MuNuvian sympathizers, we may now begin the next step in implementing the MuNuvian World Order.

Step 3.14159265 of the MuNuvian World Order is now complete, Conferate Yankee has successfully infiltrated the Main Stream Media, his interview can be seen here.

You can stop by and congratulate him here.

Posted by: phin at 01:30 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Hi all,

Thanks to those who assisted me with creating a different format for my blog blockquotes. One problem still persists (just one!): How can I change the links (standard, active, etc.) colors within my blockquotes? I ask b/c the background color I've chosen for my blockquotes now makes it difficult to see any links within them. I tried copying the link codes from the beginning of the stylesheet template, posting it within the blockquote code, and merely changing the color parameters. No dice.

Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Rhodey at 10:16 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Insert a new section in your CSS (stylesheet) where you can put your blockquote link controls. Put the word blockquote in front of the A: , A:link , A:visited , A:active , A:hover code.
blockquote A: { color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; background: #000066; }Let me know how that works out for you.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at February 28, 2006 04:53 PM

2 This may be easier to read....

Insert a new section in your CSS (stylesheet) where you can put your blockquote link controls. Put the word blockquote in front of the A: , A:link , A:visited , A:active , A:hover code.

blockquote A: { color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; background: #000066; }

Let me know how that works out for you.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at February 28, 2006 04:54 PM

3 MW: Here's the code as I have it now:

blockquote A:link{ color: #C82536; text-decoration: none; }
A:visited { color: #CCCC66; text-decoration: none; }
A:active { color: #FFFF99; }
A:hover { color: #FFFF99; }

blockquote{

margin:15px 30px 15px 30px;
padding:8px 10px 8px 10px;
border: 1px solid #E8E8E8;
color:#030303;
font-family:arial, tahoma;
background:#E8E8E8;
}

***********

I originally had the bottom blockquote code to get the background and text different for my blockquote boxes; so, I added the blockquote link codes above that. I'm not entirely certain this was the proper course of action.

Nevertheless, what has happened is that LINK color has indeed changed to what I desired; however, the FOLLOWED and ACTIVE link colors will not change as I wish. (In the code above I have changed them back to the default stylesheet colors -- FYI.) When I changed those, they changed the FOLLOWED and ACTIVE link colors for the entire index page.

Posted by: Rhodey @ at March 01, 2006 12:14 AM

4 You just need to add the word blockquote in front of all the link entries.

When you are done, you should have one set of link controls for your main page that all start with a and one set of link controls for your blockquotes that start with blockquote a:.

You can use this same method to display different link controls in your sidebar also - just add the appropriate class name in front of a new set of controls.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at March 01, 2006 02:15 AM

5 MW: That did it!

Thanks so much, my friend!

Posted by: Rhodey @ at March 01, 2006 09:09 PM

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Since I updated the DNS a couple of days ago, there have been a number of people who haven't been able to reach munu, or some sites on munu, or who have had intermittent access.

As far as I can tell, though, everything is set up correctly.

For example:

# dig blog.mu.nu

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> blog.mu.nu
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29759
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;blog.mu.nu. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
blog.mu.nu. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.227

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
blog.mu.nu. 86400 IN NS kei.mu.nu.
blog.mu.nu. 86400 IN NS yuri.mu.nu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
kei.mu.nu. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.218
yuri.mu.nu. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.226

;; Query time: 845 msec
;; SERVER: 10.1.1.15#53(10.1.1.15)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 24 14:08:05 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113

The DNS checker at squish.net (a wonderful tool), returns:

Results

50.0% of queries will be returned by 69.72.215.218 (ns1.mu.nu)

blog.mu.nu. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.227

50.0% of queries will be returned by 69.72.215.226 (ns2.mu.nu)

blog.mu.nu. 14400 IN A 69.72.215.227

Anyone out there who is DNS savvy, could you take a quick look at what you are seeing from your point of view and leave a comment. I think that the problem is due to flaky DNS caching servers being run by various ISPs, but I'd like to be sure.

Update: I thought I'd managed to duplicate the problem on my wireless internet, but before I could do any real diagnosis it started working again. Damn.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:11 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Okay this is strange. My friend Tammi has been having this problem. She's on Insight for her ISP. I thought it might be a flaky dns too. Unfortunately I didn't have her tracert or ping the correct name. As this has been ongoing I'll see if she can do it tomorrow. Unless it's figured out by then.

Posted by: Teresa @ at February 24, 2006 05:05 AM

2 That's interesting. I've had reports of other people on Insight having the same problem. I'll see if I can work out what's going on there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 24, 2006 07:15 AM

3 No, I can't work it out. Oh well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 24, 2006 07:22 AM

4 I found that I had regained access to Munu sites (including my own) when I checked Saturday evening. Maybe my ISP is stupid and recalcitrant but finally surrendered to Pixy's indomitable will.

Yeah, that's it (because that kind of explanation makes much more sense to me than the scripty codey stuff.)

Yay Pixy!

Posted by: Debbye @ at February 26, 2006 12:42 AM

5 Yay! I think it may be because we changed DNS *servers* rather than just the DNS settings, and that can have a longer delay time. It still shouldn't have taken so long, but at least it's all happy now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at February 26, 2006 01:38 AM

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If you are getting a "fruitcake error" when trying to log in to Movable Type, or when adding a post or a comment or something, it's a problem relating to MySQL, and I'm working on it.

Update: It may be to do with the current spam-storm. It's all getting zapped, but that seems to be generating errors on MySQL, because Fluffy keeps killing the comment script while it is querying the database.

I've put something in place to prevent this from causing problems while I do a bit more digging.

Update: Found it. It was indeed the spam-storm. Over 100,000 spams in the past couple of hours, and no sign of letting up. Bleh.

All under control now.

Update: Currently clocking between 600 and 1000 spams per minute. All being rejected.

Update: Confirmed. Spammer smacked, errors stopped. Yay. Bed time.

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