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January 19, 2006

Domain names

I was gifted my own domain name, registered through GoDaddy. www.stevejanke.com will now by the domain by which "Steve Janke: Angry in the Great White North" goes by.

But I need to make it work first.

I've enabled forwarding, and that seems to work. But I have questions. Should I be modifying the nameservers identified at GoDaddy? They are pointing at the "parked" servers. Should I enable masking? If so, what do I need to be aware of? What about weblog configurations here? Should I replace the Site URL and Site Archive fields for the weblog with paths using "www.stevejanke.com"?

Any other advice? Any other landmines I need to know about? Thanks all.

Posted by: Steve Janke at 04:09 PM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 18, 2006

Tuesday Mikey Update

GOOD NEWS!  from DaGoddess.

Posted by: caltechgirl at 01:10 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 17, 2006

Mikey Update!

Joanie has the latest details here.

AND a way you can help! If you have flight vouchers or frequent flyer miles that can be transferred, let Joanie know, so we can get Mikey's MIL on a plane to San Diego!

Posted by: caltechgirl at 04:40 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 16, 2006

Default Template Files

For all those MuNuvians who like to tinker with their sites and mess up your templates and want to just start all over with a clean slate...

Jim has uploaded all the default templates for MT and they are linked below the fold.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 09:16 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Trackbacks

I feel guilty for even posting after that last post (we're all thinking about you Mikey).

Is anyone else getting new, enormous piles of trackback spam? Pixy, is one of the pets asleep at the wheel?

And worse, when I try and blacklist them, I get

An error occurred:
mkdir /home/pixymisa: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 104

jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2957.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2959.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2963.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2965.

MT-Blacklist Version 1.6.5
Script execution time: 21 seconds

Thanks for the help!

Posted by: Ogre at 12:38 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 15, 2006

Terrible News-- Updated!

Fellow MuNuvian Mad Mikey
has suffered a stroke and continues bleeding into his brain.  Please
send up all the good thoughts and prayers you can spare for him and his
family.  Mikey's had a lot of health challenges (he is also on
dialysis), and lately just seemed to be getting one hit after another. 
More updates as they come in....

Drop over to his site and let his family know you're thinking of them

Update! From Da Goddess:

Mikey had surgery tonight to remove the blood clot and stop other bleeding. His intracranial pressure is rising (not a good sign) and he remains in a medically induced coma. His wife is trying her best to be strong, but it's difficult.

Da Goddess and Smash and some others are going to be setting up a fund to help out the family, as they certainly won't be bringing in any $$ for a while, as Mikey has a long recovery ahead and his wife will need to be with him in the hospital. Details forthcoming on their pages.

Posted by: caltechgirl at 11:42 PM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Multiple Author Blogs

If you have a blog with several regular contributors, like MuNuviana, you can link back to the post author's everyday blog or to their e-mail address by changing a small snippet of code:

In the posted by line, just change the text from

<$MTEntryAuthor$>

to

<$MTEntryAuthorLink$>

Simple as cake!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 06:48 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

*tiny little plea for chivalry*

A certain someone recently brought to my attention that now that the comment spam epidemic of early '05 is now history, that my preview-before-commenting booby trap can go away. I'm cool with that.

Now, could some kind soul share with me what code it was that I changed in the first place to get it to be all wonky and annoying? Specifically, what should I change on which template? I have pop-up comments...I think for now I'd like to keep 'em. I don't have the mental fortitude to be tinkering alone tonight...I left my mad scientist jacket at work.

Posted by: Tiffany at 01:46 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 13, 2006

More TB Woes

Following up Kipper's post, the TB spam filter must be way out of control. At least 75% of the TBs sent to my site fail. I'm getting almost no spam, but I'm also getting almost no TBs!

Posted by: Rusty at 09:59 PM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 12, 2006

Web Design Help

OK, so I am kicking off a new website designed for those who are infertile and hate their lives and everyone around them. I have found a picture I want to use and everything. What I haven't been able to do is design the page, mostly because I absolutely suck at web design (for example the skins on my webpage are bust and I've no idea how to fix them) and I hate doing it.

So-anyone know any good designers?

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 04:31 PM | Comments (24) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 11, 2006

Flickr

Hi there! New Munuvian aboard! And one who is trying to figure stuff out Thus some hand holding may be in order, if anyone would be so kind and willing.

I am new to all of this and god knows the head is swimming just thinking about designing the site and trying to make it look like something more than a template... but that is another post.

So after searching the search function for Flickr and finding nada... what I am wondering is whether anyone here has experience using Flickr (I have a free account until I decide if I think it will work well) on a mu.nu blog? In particular how to post more than one Flickr photo in a blog entry (I have set Flickr up with my fidgetyknitting.mu.nu blog and tested to it with individual photos, which works- but would like to put up more)

Any ideas? Many Thanks!

Posted by: Stinkerbell at 12:16 PM | Comments (21) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 10, 2006

Posting Via Email

Does anyone know if we have the ability to post via email? I see Eric did not receive and comments on his post so should we take that as a no?

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat at 02:29 AM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 09, 2006

Last PDA Post for a While

At least on MuNuviana. For our fellow MuNuvianans who don't have Palm based PDA's, there is nothing in the way of blogging software that Ted, Republicrat, or I have been able to find for the Pocket PC type PDA's. So, the other valid option is to blog via email. There are a couple of plugins for MT that enable blogging by email. Are they installed, by chance? If not, could they be installed? I'm sure that our Windows PDA brethren would be eternally grateful.

Posted by: EricC at 06:40 AM | Comments (12) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 07, 2006

More PDA Blogging

For those who are interested, I reviewed four PDA blogging tools for the Palm OS. If you have a Palm OS based PDA that has a live connection to the 'Net, whether the connection is WiFi, GSM/GPRS, EV-DO or a bluetooth modem, these tools will allow you to blog in real time from your PDA.

Eric's PDA Blogging Review

The state of the art is not bad at all. If you are thinking of getting a new PDA or Smartphone, take a look and find a tool you like.

Posted by: EricC at 02:49 AM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 06, 2006

MT Question - "Rebuilding"

If I do something simple like editing a comment on a post, do I have to Rebuild the entire blog or can I get away with just Rebuilding Indexes only? Anyone?

Posted by: Gary at 06:06 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

2006 Bloggies

Hey so if you haven't noticed, the 6th annual Bloggies Awards have started, it's time to nominate your favorites, and of course by that I mean Munuvians.

Go Here for More Information

This is, in no way, a plug for my blog.
nyuk

Posted by: Oorgo at 12:31 AM | Comments (36) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 04, 2006

Uncooperative MT-Blacklist

Folks, I'm probably missing something obvious, but can anyone help me with the following: I'm plowing through the holiday gift of spam, and MT-Blacklist is being very useful. However, when I add say "bobs-animal-lust.com" to the list, I can't get MT-B to go through any remaining comments and extract those which match the entered domain, using the blacklist. MT-B responds to my request by saying, "Out of the last 250 comments, there are none on entries for which you have editing privileges that match your search criteria."

This is of course a blatant lie, because I'm only trying to work on my blog and I've been deleting comments via MT-B for a while, one by one. I don't mind swinging the bloody sword of Blacklist individually, but I would prefer to automate the process where possible.

What am I doing wrong?

Posted by: Country Pundit at 07:40 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Trackback question again!

Okay, peeps, I know I posted about this last week, but I just can't help but bring it up again. (Now that I have access to Munuviana, I'm going to take advantage of it.)

I cannot figure out what is going on with the trackbacks for my blog, Cardinal Martini. The trackback links don't work, except when they do.

See, for example: http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-tb.cgi/143581

That is the TB link for this post: http://cardinalmartini.mu.nu/archives/149370.php

Strange thing is that if I ping that TB link from either my own blog or from Munuviana, then the pings go through and the trackback is listed. But when I ping that exact same TB link from either Haloscan or WizBang's standalone thingie, the pings fail. I also know from a couple of other people, one using Wordpress and the other using Blahgsplat/Haloscan that their trackback pings to my blog aren't working either.

I've checked the activity log, and I can't find anything about pings being rejected.

Does anyone know what's up with this situation, and how I can fix it?

Thanks!

Posted by: Cardinal Martini at 09:48 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 02, 2006

HowTo: PDA Blogging

If you are a PDA geek, like Michele and I, then you definitely want to check out my new HowTo. This one explains, now that you have a PDA template, with comments enabled, how to install a tool to blog live from your Palm PDA to your MuNu blog. What more could you ask for?

Posted by: EricC at 07:23 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

January 01, 2006

Sandcrawler Invasion

I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that I'm still not getting emails for comments and track backs, but I revealed the address bar in a comment window and somehow it's displaying a Jawa Report emoticon!

Never mind - it went away. I guess it wasn't part of the problem just junk in the cache! (no offense).

UPDATE: Actually I just posted an answer to a comment, and the Jawa came back!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:09 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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