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April 18, 2005
Emailing code?
Does anyone know that code to insert on a template where you can click on it and it just generates a new email message? I think it'll help against the Spamster.
I want that on mine but am a technophobe.
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Do you want a form that they fill out and it sends you an email?
Posted by: Eric @ at April 18, 2005 03:15 PM
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I use the code found here...
http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php
And it works really well at preventing spam.
Posted by: Gir @ at April 18, 2005 04:44 PM
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Gir, that's the one! Thanks!
Wish I had a cool dancing graphic like Moosey's. Love that thing.
Posted by: Helen @ at April 18, 2005 05:22 PM
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Thanks for the link to hidemail..nice and neat service....
Also check out the free temporary email address site under www.mytrashmail.com.
Posted by: anonymous email @ at September 29, 2005 01:47 PM
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hey, does anyone know the code for a dancing gir graphic, so i can put it on my myspace? i cant seem to get it off anything...please help...
Lex
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April 17, 2005
Anti-Spam Weapon
I am sure the great and powerful and wise Pixy Misa is already on top of this but just in case it somehow escaped his attention, I thought I'd better mention it. After all he is only human (we think) and it is my duty to do what little I can to help.
Anyway, I found this at a site called
Synthstuff. It's a handy little thing called
Spamlookup. It's a MT plugin that helps block spam. It apparently does a good job.
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April 15, 2005
Thingy
Just updated PHP on the server. This requires doing a complete rebuild of the web server, adn that ha a nasty habit of resetting everyone's access permissions.
If you run into any problems, like not being able to rebuild your blog, give me a yell and I'll get it fixed right away.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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Works fine! I've been publishing all over the place and no hang ups!
Posted by: Jeremy @ at April 17, 2005 04:45 AM
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Yeah, I think I managed not to screw it up this time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 17, 2005 04:10 PM
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April 14, 2005
trackback marauders
Anyone know how to get rid of trackback luncheon meat and how to stop it from happening?
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Oh well, it didn't really take all that much of a search to figure it out on my own.

Posted by: Tiger @ at April 14, 2005 11:02 PM
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La la la...
Don't mind me.
(We used to do this all the time. Now that the software all works perfectly, we hardly ever do this. So sad.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 15, 2005 05:09 AM
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New MuNu Blogroll?
It was inevitable, really. I liked my blogroll in MuNuvian citizenship order...but now it's in alphabetical order and I can't find SHIT!
Nothing really important; just venting. Guess it's time for me to start marching to the beat of the same drummer.
Fixed! Yay Pixy!
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Victor:
The blogroll is available in several different formats, including the one you want. If you read Pixy's Blogroll update you'll be able to find the file that corresponds to the one you're looking for.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 15, 2005 12:03 AM
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Unless I screwed something up, which is always a possibility. Let me check...
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 15, 2005 02:26 AM
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Doh!
Sorry about that, Victor. Fixed now.
I had the two javascript files swapped around.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 15, 2005 02:33 AM
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MuNu Central
I've added an entry for the munu home page to the automatic blogroll thingy. Just so you know, it shows up as "MuNu Central".
Now I'm going to watch and see how that affects its Ecosystem rank.
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Carnival of the Munuvians, Mk II
A while back, I floated the idea of a weekly or fortnightly or somethingly Carnival of the Munuvians, highlighting the best munu has to offer. A number of people sent entries to me, and I sort of sat on them...
Well, I still think it's a good idea, so I'm going to give it another go, only this time with extra anchovies! I've set up a new blog:
Carnival of the Munuvians. (I realise that it doesn't look very festive, but that will change.) And I'm setting up software to feed posts from the Carnival blog straight onto the
front page of mu.nu. You can see the software at work with Automated Ambience, which is a mirror of my blog as a phpBB forum.
What I'm looking for is a team of editors to manage the Carnival. There will be two types of entries: Features, which feature a single outstanding post and can be entered at any time, and the Carnival itself, which will appear on a semi-regular schedule.
All you will need to do is enter posts in the blog; all the copying and stuff will happen automagically. Let me know if you're interested!
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I still love the idea! I might even produce a post once a month that'll be worthy of submitting!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at April 14, 2005 03:29 AM
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Right! Managing editor: Spork.
Who's on the city desk?
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 14, 2005 03:51 AM
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You don't want to do that, I'll always win!!
Posted by: Tom @ at April 14, 2005 07:57 PM
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A carnival sounds like a great idea. I'd participate, at least sometimes.
Posted by: Eric @ at April 16, 2005 04:46 PM
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Let me know what I need to do for management (heh..anyone else watch carnivalè?) sake and I'll be happy to assist an any way you need me.
Let me know what you're looking for in a template style as well and give me a week or so. (Complete freebie. You're hosting and I sort of feel like I owe you something. I just want to thank you for getting me off of blogger. Oblige me. (Unless you really want to design it on your own.)
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April 13, 2005
Pull Down Menu Master Template Updated
The master template post for the Mu.Nu pulldown menu has been updated to update itself automatically. As our quest for world domination accelerates I gave up on trying to keep up with manual updates.
The post - located down on the right under Useful Thingies has all of the instructions you need to set up the list. Do this after you have followed Pixy Misa's PHP
instructions.
Many people have asked in the past about how to format they type in the menu, and my standard response is “I have no idea.” This does nothing to change that!!! I offer it as is and hope some you can get some value from it. If you ever figure out how to format the type - let us all know!
And Welcome to all of the Newcomers. It's great to have you here.
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I'll be updating pulldownd.i to include the Javascript - I've already done this with pulldown.i.
I'll give you access to the Blogroll system too, so you can take a look.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 12:50 AM
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Stephen;
I was never able to get the text stylng to work either.
Paul
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 13, 2005 07:21 AM
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I haven't given up a manual updating yet only because I insist on having spacings between short lists. I need my MuNu in recognizable chunks. Helps me find my daily reads.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at April 14, 2005 03:39 AM
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Hmm...I can't get the javascript version to work for me...
Posted by: Gir @ at April 15, 2005 01:07 AM
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 15, 2005 05:40 AM
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When I click on "The List" there are no entries :-(
Posted by: Gir @ at April 15, 2005 02:18 PM
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Um. It's not supposed to do that.
I'm going to tweak the include file a bit, and then you can try it again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 16, 2005 08:33 AM
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April 12, 2005
Mu.nu traffic
Equal with Instapundit?
Interesting...
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Alexa really has messed up entries for mu.nu.
I've contacted them, we'll see if they do anything...
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 12:25 AM
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 12:29 AM
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That graph makes it look like we're sucking readers from the puppy-meister.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 12:30 AM
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On the other hand, Professor Puppy makes $4000 a week off Blogads. I must be doing something wrong.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 08:59 AM
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I'm sure if we did Mu.nu-wide ads we'd pull in the same. Of course, then we'd have to do ads - groan :-(
Posted by: Daniel @ at April 13, 2005 12:38 PM
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
Money - yay!
Ads - no yay!
I'm not going to be doing mu.nu-wide ads. I have some thoughts on advertising, but nothing that's going to be munu-wide. Everyone is free to run their own ads, of course.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 13, 2005 03:37 PM
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speaking as an ad hater, Yay!
Posted by: Eric @ at April 13, 2005 05:15 PM
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As yet another ad hater, I would always be willing to donate to keep this fine service ad free.

Posted by: ethne @ at April 14, 2005 06:34 PM
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Pixy, however, steadfastly refuses to put up a tip jar...
Posted by: Daniel @ at April 14, 2005 06:42 PM
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April 10, 2005
The New New Munu Blogroll
Hi all. A little while back I set up a new, automatically maintained blogroll system for Munu, but I never really explained how it works.
The blogroll is maintained by a blog called Blogroll. For each new Munu I create a post that simply lists the name and domain name of their blog. View a series of extremely intricate templates (some as much as three lines long!) it then magically creates various styles of blogroll for people to use.
To use these blogrolls, you must first set up your blog to be creating php. This isn't hard, and here is how you do it:
Go into the Weblog Config page for your blog, and click on Preferences at the top.
Scroll down to the Archiving section, and for the entry labeled File extension for archive files, put in php.
Now go into Templates, and select your Main Index template. The file will be set to index.html; change it to index.php.
Now rebuild your blog, and you're done!
Once you've done this, you can use the PHP include command to include blogrolls (and indeed just about anything). Like this:
<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/mli.i"; ?>
There are a few different styles available for the blogroll:
mu.i is a simple listing of the Munu blogs sorted by the date they joined
nu.i is the same listing in alphbetical order
mli.i is an HTML list, in date order. Depending on your stylesheet, this might put little dots next to each entry, as seen at Ellis Island
nli.i is the same HTML list in alphabetical order
pulldown.i is a listing of entries for the pulldown box style of blogroll. You can see a pulldown box blogroll at Hold the Mayo, but Stephen doesn't seem to be using the automatic list yet.
We can easily create any number of alternate styles. The combinatorial explosion holds no fears for us! Just let me know what you'd like, and if it's not too completely impossible, I'll get it set up.
Hmm. I just had a thought. With a bit of tweakering, I should be able to get it to maintain the old Javascript blogrolls too. Hang on a tick... Done. The mu.js and nu.js Javascript files should now get updated automagically too.
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Those are pretty slick Pixy. I used the pull down with include code You could do the same thing by building a new MT module, but this is easier. I was working on putting that together.
Can I access the include files directly to see how you did what you did?
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Try using pulldownd.i

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 11, 2005 02:46 AM
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Hey Pixy,
I used "pulldown.i" and it works except that it doesn't actually select the URL and redirect.
Also, could you provide a version that has a target="_blank", for those of us who prefer that method of linking?
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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 12, 2005 12:07 AM
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Oh yeah, I didn't include the Javascript code in the include file. I'm doing that now, but hang on while I test it.
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Sorry, couldn't wait, once I saw the changes you made it was obvious. It works fine.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get it to do a target="_blank".
By the way, if I put an include file in /home/ecowper/www/scripts/, can I call it with a ./scripts?
Posted by: Eric @ at April 12, 2005 04:24 AM
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Yeah, ./scripts should work.
I'm going to see if I can find a way to tell the script to do a target="_blank" without making a whole new include file. Should be possible.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 12, 2005 06:27 AM
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April 09, 2005
Find the Munuvians!
Sometimes I like to use my long commute as an excuse to get silly!
P C D T Y T S U R A J O H N N Y O M
H I A N I C M R U E S N E P R O N A
Y R V P A M O R K I R S T E N L I C
S E E L E H C I M I E R U E H S L K
G I B S D R T O T O A L E X I A K L
E K O S K A A A L A U R A M L R N I
E O X E M I S C N L G S O N Y A I N
K O E R Y H T I H R I N E L K H R E
C M N T R O K E M E L N E I A E F R
O A H S W T E I S Y L A S S F N O W
R D O I O P Y T N X X A T I L L A A
E F R M L T E D N G L I N D A R Y L
L I N E E V N E E U Q N P N E R O E
G S U S I E S B L U E A N G E L R M
A H I E L L I B E J U I I K K O O U
L W M E A V E Y H L K T C A T W D R
S I T H T E R E S A D I E C N A O G
J L A C E T T E X O R A I R N N N I
A L O C I L B U P E R V S I R A A R
T I T R I C A L E Y R R E H C Y O L
T E A I C C I D U O B L R Y A N O J
Not everyone is in it, sorry. But, there are 76 Munuvians hiding in the puzzle. (There are also a few non-Munu names sprinkled about. Have fun!
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Dude! I'm in there! I saw me! I'm upside-down, as is par for the course.
Thank you

Posted by: Helen @ at April 11, 2005 09:16 PM
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Hey! Found me as well. This is fun. Off to find who else is in there.
Really, I deserve this break. Do you know how hard I've been working?????
Posted by: Rachel Ann @ at April 17, 2005 06:58 PM
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New Munu Review, Part 2
Another slew of new neighbors, and not a crotchety old man or 3AM loud music partier in the bunch. Well, maybe one or two of the partiers but at least they listen to decent music.
Go say hi to:
Kitty Says
Pole Dancing In the Dark
American Warmonger
Beekeeper
Grumbles
Alex In Wonderland
Weasel Manor
(Well, go say hi to Ethne at Pole Dancing, Eric at Grumbles and Alex in Wonderland. The other's haven't parked the U-Haul yet.)
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American Warmonger has his first couple of posts up as well, although he isn't completely moved in yet.
Posted by: Eric @ at April 11, 2005 05:47 PM
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Okay, I'm just about there. There's still some photoshop work to do with the background image but I set up a redirector at my old digs and in the process of moving over all my posts off of blogger.
Now's the time to nit pick about my template while I'm in the mood to do major changes.
Posted by: Jeremy @ at April 13, 2005 11:15 PM
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Fluffy Strikes Back
I just happened to be watching the processes running on the server when we got hit by a trackback spam flood. Ten seconds later, Fluffy the Spam Watchdog woke up and killed it. Works as designed.
Yay!
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Posted by: Mookie @ at April 09, 2005 05:24 PM
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What I want to know is, whose job is it to take Fluffy for a walk after he/she's eaten all that spam?

Posted by: Susie @ at April 15, 2005 02:00 AM
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April 07, 2005
Spring Cleaning
The Blacklist was overfull again. I managed to wipe several hundred entries by forbidding character codes like "& 110;" and eliminating all of the lines that had used those. Spammers are using these more and more frequently to circumvent alphabet filters and the Blacklist was loaded with them.
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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 11:45 PM
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By the way, MT-Blacklist 2 handles these automatically. Of course, we're not on MT 3 yet so we can't use it.
I'm going to do a test upgrade this weekend. I've made a complete copy of the current system, and we'll see what it does.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 08, 2005 02:57 AM
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I know the big deal is now trackbacks, but this would help those that don't want to have their comments closed. What if we inserted something like email services do, where if you want to leave a comment you have to type the word that you see in a little random jpg, and it would just be a short series of random letters or a random word.
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They're called "captchas" and they are evil.
I will be making them available soon, and people will be able to decide whether to use them or not.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 01:06 PM
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Why are they so evil? Besides the fact that they are an utter pain.
Posted by: Mookie @ at April 07, 2005 04:12 PM
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Is it possible to have it work only on older posts? I'd be fine with having that feature, but finer with not having to make legit guests use it on recent posts.
Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at April 07, 2005 05:11 PM
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April 06, 2005
Turning off pings
I know a while back we found a MT way to turn off comments after a certain number of days.
Is there a similar way to turnoff trackbacks after "X" days? Trackback spam is killing me.
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No, there doesn't seem to be.
And ConversationKiller (which I installed a while back) seems to have croaked.
I'm going to run some experiments - a single SQL query should be able to do the trick for the whole of munu.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 03:01 AM
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Pixy:
MT-Close2 will do this, and on a universal or blog by blog basis. It is also reversible.
P.
Posted by: Light & Dark @ at April 07, 2005 06:34 AM
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Hmm.
Oh yes, we tried that, but it gave all the users access to close/open comments on every blog. I'll see if there's an update or some way to fiddle with it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 07:33 AM
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No updates. And it's rilly sloooow.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 07:45 AM
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Rilly rilly slow. It's still going. (Tested it on the old MT2 Ambient Irony.)
I did the same thing using SQL and it took 1.4 seconds.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 07:56 AM
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And 0.0342 seconds to undo.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 07:57 AM
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April 05, 2005
The New Mu Review
We've got a load of new neighbors. Everybody go say hi to:
Rhymes With Right
Possumblog
Something for the Weekend
Seven Inches of Sense
Stolen Beauty
View from the Pew
A Swift Kick and A Bandaid
Professor Chaos
Cal Tech Girl's World
Some are already cranking out content, some not quite yet.
Hey, who's doing the updates for the Munu blogrolls?
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Posted by: Ted @ at April 05, 2005 10:46 PM
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Jim, now I need to show you how our automatic blogroll system works!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 05, 2005 11:52 PM
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I can edit the hell out of a text file. Show me the way, Pixy!
Posted by: Jim @ at April 06, 2005 03:02 AM
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Nope, no text files involved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 06, 2005 03:41 AM
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Ooh. You're scaring me.
Posted by: Jim @ at April 06, 2005 10:05 AM
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So when do we rename the blogosphere the Pixy-sphere?
Posted by: Simon @ at April 06, 2005 10:21 AM
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I tried using the MTInclude tag for the blogroll, and it didn't work because MT couldn't find the file. How can I make it work?
This is what I did:
<$MTInclude file="http://munuviana.mu.nu/archives/nu.inc"$>
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at April 06, 2005 01:13 PM
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Shouldn't that be "Nu Mu Review?"
Posted by: Victor @ at April 06, 2005 01:36 PM
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David, do you mean the Munuviana blogroll? There are instructions for it over here.
Posted by: Jim @ at April 06, 2005 01:41 PM
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No, that's the old one.
For the new one, I'm using this:
<?php include "http://blogroll.mu.nu/mli.i"; ?>
(Assuming you have your blog set up to generate .php files.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 12:23 AM
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Have to run, but I'll post more details shortly.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 12:23 AM
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That Professor Chaos cannot be trusted. Oh, wait ...
Posted by: Leopold Stotch @ at April 07, 2005 02:20 AM
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Is the domain for View from the Pew supposed to be piewview.mu.nu rather than pewview.mu.nu?
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 03:07 AM
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Anyway, I added pewview.mu.nu for us pedants. We can always fix things up later. That should be our motto.
I've added these to our central blogroll; I'll give the Munuveteers access to it - it's actually just another blog, but with strange templates that generate blogrolls in various formats. Munuviana, Ellis Island and my blog use it now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 07, 2005 03:12 AM
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OK, I went and said hi to all the new kids. But back to the more important question - who IS updating the rolls and how do I get it to be a drop-down box.
Also, with so many of us, do we have any plans for an invasion soon?
Posted by: Elizabeth @ at April 09, 2005 02:45 PM
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Pixy has crafted some devilish new system that he'll be presenting to the honored assembly in the near future. In the meantime, here's the pulldown blogroll.
Posted by: Jim @ at April 09, 2005 03:37 PM
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March 31, 2005
Ellis Island is open for business
The great and mighty Pixy Misa has set me up with the tools necessary to help get new Munuvians started up. I've gone through the Ellis Island queue line to enlist the help of each immigrant's sponsor in verifying that they still want to be Munuvians (some of the nominations are pretty old) and in getting the basic info needed to set up the new blogs.
I encourage all Munuvians to keep an eye on Ellis Island. If there are no negative votes after a week (or so) the nominee will become a Munu as soon as Pixy puts in his "Yay". If you've got a concern over a prospective neighbor you need to speak up. Likewise, if you approve of a nominee blog your vote of support is very...um...supportive. Ellis Island is our vetting process and it will only work well with participation from the Mucommunity.
I'd also encourage all Munuvians to nominate worthy blogs. We need to attract the cream of the crop* in order to finish taking over the world. When you do nominate somebody please get a few bits of basic info and include it in the nomination post.
- Firstly, check with the person and make sure that they want to move their blog to Munuviana. Do this before nominating them.
- Secondly, specify a contact email address.
- Thirdly, the new user account and blogname will be set up with whatever is listed in the nomination. If they want something different please specify. If it's a multi-person blog make sure to list all of the participants.
- Lastly, if they have their own url that will be used for the blog let me know what it is.
* Okay, what the hell does this saying actually mean? What sort of "crop" gives cream? Are we harvesting cows here? I should probably ask Jen.
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Um, not to come over too benevolent-dictator-for-life-ish here, but could you wait for a confirming "yay" from me before Munuviating people? I don't have so many worries about fragmenting the Munu community these days, as I think it's pretty solid, but...
Do feel free to poke me with a stick if I don't show up and give my blessings though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 31, 2005 08:58 PM
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Oh, and yes, cows. Duh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 31, 2005 09:04 PM
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I have cleverly edited the post to reflect deference to your majestic dictatorosity.
Posted by: Jim @ at March 31, 2005 09:41 PM
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We have three more Munuveteers on the way as well, so as soon as I finish my radioactive spider breeding program setting them up, we'll really be able to cut loose.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 01, 2005 12:17 AM
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Oh, and on the multi-person blog subject: It's not a rigid rule. If a blog has two people now, and may be adding another one but they don't know yet, no sweat. And if anyone here wants to add another user, again, no problem.
Well, the only possible problem is with name collisions. We won't be seeing Susie287 any time soon, but we already have a couple of different Pauls and Lindas. Uh... None of them being super-rich British rock stars, as far as I know.
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 01, 2005 12:20 AM
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Yays liberally applied.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 02, 2005 12:57 AM
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"Um, not to come over too benevolent-dictator-for-life-ish here"
It's ok Pixy.
Strong men turn me on.
Posted by: Helen @ at April 04, 2005 02:13 PM
Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at April 04, 2005 11:36 PM
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"Firstly, check with the person and make sure that they want to move their blog to Munuviana. Do this before nominating them."
D'oh! I missed this post before making a nomination the other day. The rule used to be that we would consider them BEFORE contacting them so's nobody got their feelings hurt if they were rejected. I still think that's a sound policy. And getting contacted out of the blue to be asked to join might give the warm fuzzies.
Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at April 07, 2005 01:47 AM
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The Nuclear Option
Is anyone here familiar with Nucleus? It supports multiple blogs and authors, has a nice set of plugins, and it's free. (Free as in open source as well as free as in no money.) It's the first open-source blogging package I've seen that supports multiple blogs well.
I'm going to give it a whirl for a few days; it's available under Fantastico so it's just a couple of mouses away. We'll see how it goes.
Hopefully better than Expression Engine, which is a
cow for running multiple blogs.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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And the name starts with "nu", which is a plus.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 31, 2005 03:52 AM
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I thought it was Nu-cu-leus. I think you mispronounced that.

Posted by: Ted @ at March 31, 2005 09:49 AM
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March 30, 2005
Trackback Spam
I'm being deluged with trackback spam. The IP Deny Manager doesn' t block it (IP: 210.117.67.217). Is there anything I can do besides delete them one by one?
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I'd guess delete them individually...IF you can find where they're tracked back to.
I cannot locate some of my trackback spam....
Posted by: Mad Mikey @ at March 30, 2005 04:33 PM
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The email notice tells you which post it is.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at March 30, 2005 04:48 PM
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Would it be possible to assign very large random numbers as trackback ids? I think that should reduce trackback spam.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at March 30, 2005 06:04 PM
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You can despam one of them using MT Blacklist, then use Blacklist again to zap all the rest automatically, using the De-Spam button. (You have to change it from searching for comments to trackbakcs.)
Or I could do my daily-ish sweep and clear them all out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at March 30, 2005 11:32 PM
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Thanks. The attack seems to have abated (for now) I closed trackbacks on every post that was hit, so that might help. But I'll remember Blacklist for next time - it didn't occur to me that it handled trackbacks, d'oh!
Posted by: David Boxenhorn @ at March 30, 2005 11:37 PM
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