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September 11, 2004

What Happened?

I know I've gotten behind in updating the pull down list. I came here to check the list to see who is new but somebody went an alphabetized the thing. It used to be You could tell who was new because they were at the end of list. That made them easy to add to the pull down script.

So if you are new here, let me know.

If you happen to have a handy list of all the recent Munubies, even better.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:01 PM | Comments (86) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 10, 2004

Little Formatting Question

Now that all the cool kids are spelling Dan Rather's name with the superscript "TH" in the middle, I realize I need to be able to do superscript as well. Anyone know how?

Posted by: Attila at 09:26 PM | Comments (93) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Stats

Pixy:

For some reason AwStats is not showing any numbers for the last couple of days...I tried updating twice but nothing. Did we have a meltdown? Can that data be retrieved?

Posted by: Simon at 08:41 AM | Comments (82) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Bastards Again

I had to shut down comments for 15 minutes just now due to a munu-wide spam flood.

Should be back to normal now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:56 AM | Comments (68) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Help, Mt's got me and I can't get up!

Helen advised me to paste my post here:


As you may know, I was - amazingly - allowed to join the hallowed ranks of Munuvia last month. In the meantime, we have had birthdays and 3000 miles on the van and all sorts of other distractions (most good, some not so much).

Today at lunch, I sat down and rolled up my sleeves and said to myself - "Self? It's time to learn MT 2.x and get this website up and roaring"

Here's the progress:
- I have confirmed that Jennifer, at Scriptygoddess, is indeed, a goddess
- Likewise Movable Style
- I have discovered that 12 Tylenols do not a lunch make
- I made a banner heading... THAT I HATE

This shouldn't be so hard, right? I want a template like the one I have now - a centered table. Like everday stranger or drunken bee. 2 columns - 1 for posts and 1 for stuff. But not spanning the whole page.

Anybody? Please?

My gratitude awaits....

Posted by: Elizabeth at 12:24 AM | Comments (82) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 08, 2004

Many, Many Thanks

Pixy Misa (Andrew), I've never properly thanked you for giving me the opportunity to blog in your domain. I've enjoyed every minute of it thus far. I've appreciated your immediate response when I've had difficulties, as well as the excellent and willing help of Madfish Willie, without whom this blog would not have the format with which I feel most comfortable.

I really, really appreciate all you've done for me. I hope I will find myself able to express my thanks in a more concrete manner soon.

Again, thank you.

Posted by: Nathan at 09:41 PM | Comments (74) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 06, 2004

Carnival of the Munuvians

Assuming our latest DNS burp is settling down now, I'll move on to our next special feature:

The Carnival of the Munuvians

Yes, every week/fortnight/month/other interval (delete where not applicable) we will be featuring a parade of all the best that MuNu has to offer!

Email me at carnival -at- pixymisa -dot- net with your best recent post (where the definition of recent is something I'll leave up to you) and I'll present them all next Monday at the all new MuNu portal site.

Update: The launch of the Carnival has been put off until next week - Monday the 13th of September. This gives all you slackers time to get your entries in. My thanks to the 9 people who already have.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:02 PM | Comments (94) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Remembering Comments Info

Ever since this darned issue about MT not remembering Comments info came up, we've been wondering what the fark is the problem.

As a temporary fix-it, Carla suggest -- in a comment over at Don's:

Instead of clicking on "Comments" from the first page, click on the permalink. Save your personal info there, and repeat the process for commenting. For some reason, the "Post a Comment" section of the permalink does save the info, while the separate "Comments" box from the front page does not.

So, the permalink (usually the timestamp on the post) remembers the personal info, but the Comment page doesn't!

I don't know anything about programming. But, if anyone among us knows about it, then maybe s/he can identify what's included in the Permalink code that makes it remember pesonal info that's not included in the Comments coding.
If we can find that out then we may be able to finally fix this.

In the meantime, click on the Permalink (timestamp) to comment in MT and leave your info there. Ignore the Comments button and enjoy being persona grata from here on out!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 01:19 AM | Comments (86) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 05, 2004

The Bastards Are At It Again

Hi all.

The latest trick from the comment spammers is to include a link to a non-spam domain in their crap. Examples I've seen today include gmail.com and hotmail.com.

Please take a moment when you're blacklisting someone to make sure you're not zapping one of these domains as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:27 PM | Comments (84) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

mt plugin installation

OK, I've done a fair bit of searching round MuNuviana and the like, but I can't find anything on how to install a plugin on MuNu. My designer wants to install a small plugin for my new skin that shows the 'top commenters' on my site. She would usually install it "into the plugin dir. in the dir where mt.cgi file is, and obviously on mu nu it isnt set up that way."

Any ideas on where she should install it folks? Or aren't I sposed to be installing plugins? Thanks

Posted by: goldie at 08:40 AM | Comments (119) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Oh Lookie!

MT 3.11 is out. Good thing I hadn't already upgraded...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:17 AM | Comments (75) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 04, 2004

You can never write "Home" again...?

Apparantly the word "home" is a no-no over at our mermaid's Lyrics of Life in LA.

My comment was disallowed due to "questionable content: home.*\com"

I had to change "drove home from work" to "drove from work", and "drove home" to "drove on", before I could post the comment.

I know that this has been addressed before, and the solution to this problem might be a good addition to the Useful Thingies and Doodads sidebar.

In the mean time, it'd be cool if someone could let Kirsten know how to get rid of the ban on the word "home".

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 10:41 PM | Comments (84) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 03, 2004

Paypal button

I have just volunteered to help a good friend build a Habitat for Humanity house here in Mississippi. Not only are we building it, but we're raising the funds as well.

That being said, I'd like to put a Paypal donation button on my blog in hopes that my 15 readers will kindly donate. How easy/difficult is it to set something like that up? I'm sure cutting and pasting the HTML code for the button is easy, but not sure of the specifics of setting up the Paypal account. Now that I've typed all this, I guess I could check the Paypal site. D'oh! If anyone has any experience with this, though, your thoughts would be appreciated.

Howard (3leggeddog)

Posted by: Howard at 02:24 PM | Comments (78) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Sitemetering Pages

So how do I do the thing, recently recommended somewhere or other, of putting sitemeter on individual pages? I saw it recommended somewhere or other, and I'm expecting a lot of internal hits for this weeks entry in the Carnival of Recipes (posted for informational purposes only) and even more when I host said Carnival.

Posted by: triticale at 01:30 PM | Comments (104) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Sticky Tape?

Does anyone know how to sticky tape something to the top of the page? I'd like to put in something like a "Please pray for" list on top.

Also, I would like to add a radio thingee to my blog, but I can't get radio blog to work. I can't hear anyone else's radio blog except funkaliscious.

Thanks all.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at 08:28 AM | Comments (75) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Archive fun

Okie, I am extrememly new at HTML stuff...but I'd like my blog to only show one entry at a time. How would I make the archives not be daily/weekly but by post? Any ideas?

Posted by: Rachel at 04:48 AM | Comments (69) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 02, 2004

Mayday! Mayday! PHP incluudes Crashing and Burning

HELP!

My PHP includes just went belly up, and I'm at a lose as to why. It says:

Warning: main(http://patriotparadox.mu.nu/amazon.php): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/nick/public_html/index.php on line 1070

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://patriotparadox.mu.nu/amazon.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/nick/public_html/index.php on line 1070

What am I doing wrong? I never changed anything, I promise.

Posted by: Nick Queen at 08:17 PM | Comments (79) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Let's Say

Let's say I have two web pages and I only want to
load the one that is the newer of the two.
How can I determine which is newer without loading them both first?
Sort of a load a page and it forwards you to the newer(of the two) page.
I know how to do the forward. Just not the choosing which to forward to.

Of course I'd like to know in the context of using the tools availible here to me as a munuvian.

Can anybody help me?

Madfish Willie? Pixy? Bueller?

Update, the decision part is figured out, now all I need is a php utility/command that returns the date when a file/url was updated.

Posted by: spacemonkey at 05:43 PM | Comments (74) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

*There is a battle being waged*

As some have discovered, an ugly smelly alien creature has commandeered Beyond the Black Hole. Although, I survived the onslaught, Bird Brain, Miss Kitty, and Bill Bulldog were turned into ash after some flashlight was shined on them. I have found the alien's Achilles heel, but this seems to be a job that I and some of my wee friends, who have joined in this resistance movement, are too insufficient in mass and strength to mount much of an effort in ridding the Earth of this menace. I am hopeful that I might get a few other to join. If you would like to become a part of the team attempting to regain control of Beyond the Black Hole, please try to get a message to me, somehow.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 01:28 AM | Comments (75) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

September 01, 2004

Skinning

So, how exactly, does one create multiple blog skins (see Captain's Quarters for an example (blog skins 2 and 3).

I am trying a new-fangled kind of thingy (I think) but am not entirely sure of the mechanics involved.

Help!

Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at 10:24 PM | Comments (77) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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