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June 02, 2004

Please?

Pretty Please?

Posted by: Daniel at 10:25 PM | Comments (112) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Less Dead

Without actually claiming to be alive, as such, I am now much less dead than I have been for the past five weeks. So if you were wondering when, if ever, I will get around to doing something-or-other - over even answering your email - the answer is very soon.

At least my email seems to have survived the Great Disk Drive Disaster of 26th-30th May 2004 (not a particularly catchy name, I know, but since I seem to be dealing with at least two disk disasters a month these days, that's what I'm stuck with) and they're all highlighted in pretty colours, so I will actually be getting back to you and loading archives and all that cool stuff.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:23 AM | Comments (118) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Thingys & Doodads - FavIcon

I was over at Ambient Irony the other day, and noticed Pixy's little icon image to the left of the URL in the address bar and in the tabbed window in Mozilla. I've seen them around, but haven't really tried to find out how it was done. Anyway, I left a comment over at Pixy's and one of his fans left directions. The directions were of a general of enough nature, that I had to do a google search on "favicon".

One of the results was FavIcons From Pics at Chami.com. It offers a little program that takes your specified image, converts that image to the proper size, gives you a preview of the resuling favicon image, let's you download the image to your box, gives you the HTML code and complete instructions to implement the icon.

Below is the procedure I used to install an image of YellowDog for Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon and some of the obstacles I encountered along the way.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 02:11 AM | Comments (114) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

June 01, 2004

A website I never set up pulls up a post from my blog.

Um, I was glancing at my stats and saw a referral from a website: www.johnkerryisanasshole.com.

(I'm purposefully not hyperlinking. Try typing it in, if you don't mind.)

When I went out there to check the site + content, it immediately refers me back to this post by my blog-bud Loren:
http://civilization-calls.mu.nu/archives/011911.html

Do you see what I'm seeing? [rubs eyes] If so, is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks,
Linda

Posted by: Linda at 09:44 PM | Comments (128) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

NuMuNu

WooHoo!!1! A nu MuNu!

Everyone go by Pam's joint and tell her thank you for the cool new banner image and Happy Anniversary!

If anyone has any display problems with the new design, let me know. I need to know what browser & ver, resolution, operating system [Mozilla 1.6 / 1024x768 / Win XP] and exactly what the problemo is. A screen cap would be nice too so I can actually see the malfunction.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 05:21 PM | Comments (117) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 31, 2004

Another Day, Another Challenge

I'm diddling about with Chez Cheese, and it occurs to me I'd like to have categories. Now, I've consulted the MT users manual and looked about at other blogs and mucked about with my template... all to no avail.
So can someone tell me what code to insert, where to insert it, and how to make a linkable list on my sidebar pointing to categories? Also, can I go back into my previous entries and assign them to a category as well?
Or should I just give up and go back to boobie pics what I know?
Thanks in advance.

Posted by: LeeAnn at 09:19 PM | Comments (117) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Mozilla Madness - Radius Corners

I noticed over at Rob's new Xset design that he had really neat rounded corners for all his boxes. I thought that was a neat effect to soften the hard edges of most common designs.

I've been poking around the last week or so trying to look at different methods for making these rounded corners. I discovered several different methods, but none that are really fast and easy. All methods involved images and adding 1 or more div classes to your CSS and Main Index Template. All but one method were static width solutions that would not resize with a liquid width column.

Until I ran across this gem while I was looking at some WordPress templates.

-moz-border-radius: 10px;
This code, inserted after the other border declarations in that div will result in a bordered box with rounded or radiused corners. This will only display in Mozilla browsers. I guess you could say it is a bonus for using a standards compliant browser.

If you want to selectively insert radiused corners, you would use the following code to achieve a radius on each corner of the box.

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
It appears to me (on my monitor anyway) that the bottom radii render a a bit more jagged than the top radii for some reason. Maybe it's my video driver or just something on my end.

Below is a thumbnailed screen shot from Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon. I went kind of crazy and radiied everything with a corner. All the radii are 10px, the comments are 9px, and the comment numbers are 8px top and 9px bottom.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 05:07 AM | Comments (123) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 30, 2004

Of interest to some?

Blog Software Breakdown

Posted by: Tiger at 03:34 AM | Comments (118) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I coulda, woulda done ---

Hey, see all those nasty beastiality links in the comments? If I had of had access to the comments in my MT console, they would be gone.

By the way, if you have noticed a lack of updating to the Beyond the Black Hole blog, it seems that we noticed a lack of interest in what we had to say. Bill Bulldog, Bird Brain and myself have been discussing what to do with the space. Miss Kitty, as usual, is just being catty.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 02:49 AM | Comments (123) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 29, 2004

Thingys & Doodads - Ecosystem Rank

Tired of being an Insignificant Microbe or Flappy Bird or Marauding Marsupial in the TTBL Ecosystem?

Want to show those Large Mammals and Mortal Humans a thing or two?

Well, now you can be a Giant Man-Eating Alligator or Tyrannosaurus Rex or even a Drunken Idiot if you choose to be.

All you have to do is modify EZ Bear's Ecosystem script. I got this from our very own Toasted Marshmellow, Emma at Miss Apropos.

Here's how to do it:

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 04:46 AM | Comments (130) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

New Tear

Anyone know what a new tear attack is? My firewall seems to intercept them all the time.

UPDATE: Hey ya'll, I just put up my new title graphic. Anyone want to go have a look and tell me what ya think? Yeah, just as I figured, all of ya'll are too busy. Oh well!

Posted by: notGeorge at 12:16 AM | Comments (124) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Carnival of the Vanities

I don't know how many of ya'll are aware that I am gonna be hostin' next week's Carnival of Vanities, and the followin' week, Pixy Misa is the host. It is time for all Munuvians to shine, so send me your submissions. roguegenius[at]hotmail[dot]com COTV in the subject, give me the URL and title to the post you are submittin'. I'll do the rest.

Posted by: Tiger at 12:03 AM | Comments (139) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 28, 2004

Help a Munuvian Out?

Not me; Ace of Spades. He could use some design assistance, as his archives are not currently accessible the way things are set up.

I recommended Rob at XSet to him just off the top of my head, but I think there are more than a few Munuvians out there who have the requisite mad skillz with respect to MT design, no?

Anyone feeling charitable? Go lend the guy a hand.

Posted by: Ilyka at 09:21 PM | Comments (151) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

the look

Have you ever seriously courted a woman who made you feel as shy as a teenager at a high school dance because you felt a special attraction to her? Have you taken your time during that courtship, being careful not to rush the relationship, because you didn't want to fuck things up?

Did you bide your time, handle everything like a total gentleman and then finally see THE LOOK? I have, three times in my life.

THE LOOK is something that you can't plan and you can't schedule. It happens when the time is right and you'll know it when you see it. It's all in the eyes, which suddenly seem to sparkle like the stars in a clear, midnight sky. If you look closely, you'll see a strange combination of surrender, challenge and fear in those eyes, and if you look too deeply, you'll feel as if you're one step away from plunging off a cliff into deep, mysterious waters.

You feel surrender, challenge and fear, too.

When you see THE LOOK, you know that the woman wants you as much as you want her. She wants you THIS NIGHT and she's ready to give herself entirely to you. The touch of her hand suddenly feels different. She walks more closely with you. A kiss on the sidewalk turns into an embrace and you want to burn with a blue flame from sheer passion. You want to meld with that woman's soul.

You don't have sex after you've seen THE LOOK. You make love, and it feels wonderful. After that first night, you'll never see the same look again, but you'll always remember it. And it will send tingles down your spine.

I haven't seen THE LOOK in a long, long time, and I miss it.

Posted by: Key at 08:23 PM | Comments (128) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Is it me or Susie?

A few days ago I cloicked ontp Practical Penumbra and got a post from February 20th titled, I think, "Sheesh! Learn to spell!". I refreshed and I got the current page.
But, for three days in a row now, all I can get -- refreshments included -- is that dang Feb 20th post.

Is anyone else having this problem? Every other blog loads fine. I'm in Mozilla 1.6, but I get the same result in IE.

Can everybody else read Susie? I need my Susie fix!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 02:16 AM | Comments (138) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

More Tech Questions

I have a bouquet of them this time; let me know if any of you have the answers:

1) Do I need to figure out a way to place my SiteMeter icon on pages other than my main page? Another blogger told me I need to do that--but since it's on my sidebar, shouldn't it know whenever someone visits my site? I tried to figure out how to get the icon to display when someone follows a permalink back, but I had a hard time with that. But I do know that I'm still getting more "page views" per week than I am "unique visits." So it must be counting pages other than the main page. Right?

2) Does anyone know the html for an em-dash? I have a "cheat sheet," but it doesn't work. Unless I'm not supposed to be placing the given code in < >'s. Please advise.

3) How do I create an RSS feed for my site? People are asking, and I'm lost at sea on that.

Thanks so much for all your help--past, present, and future. You are the bestest friends a bloggirl could have.

Posted by: Attila at 01:24 AM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

May 27, 2004

Thingys & Doodads - Site Stats

I ran across some code over at the MT Support Forum the other day. I think you may like it. It's just a few lines to count the total number of blogs entries, total number of comments, and a comment/entry ratio. I modified it for my site and put it with my other site statistics like the sitemeter and ecosystem scripts.

Here is the code:

Total Entries: <MTBlogEntryCount><br />
Total Comments: <MTBlogCommentCount><br />
Comments/Entry:
<?
echo number_format(<MTBlogCommentCount>/<MTBlogEntryCount>,2);
?>
<hr />

Here is the ouptput:

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 11:53 PM | Comments (137) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Thingys & Doodads - Best of Me

Let's say you want to display a list of links to some of your best posts... the stuff you are really proud of (my list would be empty, but that's another story)... how would you do that?

I was doing a blog tweak for Linda at Auteriffic, and she asked me if I could do something with a select category for her poetry to display in the sidebar. I don't think this is what she was looking for, but it exactly what you need to display a "best of me" series of posts in your sidebar.

Enable your category archives.
Create a Best of Me category.
Assign that category to the posts you want to display.
Cut & Paste the following code into your sidebar where you want your list to appear.

<div class="sidetitle">
Best of Me
</div>
<div class="side">
<MTEntries category="Best of Me" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
</div>


I have the code sample up over at the MadLab, at the bottom of the sidebar, if you want to see what the output is. I used an existing category for testing. There are only four posts in that category, but you'll get the idea.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 07:23 PM | Comments (138) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Comments go ker-splish

Hello Munuviana! I got an email this a.m. from my blog-bud, Loren. He wrote:

Linda, we have a problem with the site. I was posting replies to comments -- this is how I'm going to handle comments from now on (and I will post a notice to that effect) -- and got bounced off at about 11:25. Couldn't get back on again until almost 1 a.m., and this is the fourth of fifth time this has happened.

Not sure that this was anything but an ISP hiccup, but has anyone else had probs posting comments late at night in the N. Hemisphere (like maybe during a backup, or something)?

Just wondering's, all.

Cheers,
Linda

Posted by: Linda at 03:57 PM | Comments (135) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

My comment info went poof.

I have honked up my blog. Not bad mind you but honked it just the same.

Could I get somebody to look at my individual archive page/style sheet to see why the boxes and labels associated with them don't show up on IE but look GREAT on mozilla.

I am a world class moron who doesn't make backups before I change stuff.

Help a moron get a clue. Have pity.

Update:the boxes are 'there' you can click them, mru's show up, but highlighting won't select them. help.

Update: Feh, got rid of the html style crap that came as default and now it works swimmingly. Thanks for all the help everyone!

Posted by: spacemonkey at 02:42 AM | Comments (137) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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