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April 22, 2004

Thanks for the hand

I got a bit of comment spam awhile ago and was at an impass as I can't get to every MT console I need through my cable connection. For some reason, when I am on cable, it only recognizes the first one I sign into. So, whoever is responsible for it now being gone, I am muchly appreciative.

Posted by: notGeorge at 02:46 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 21, 2004

Another nit to pick

I know I come up with some of the pettiest things, but really, would it be possible to post the munu roll on Ellis Island so there is some way to navigate elsewhere without backing out of it when you are done looking and voting?

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 11:12 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

MuNuby ???

Is anyone having problems with the update/trackback/ping thingy?

It keeps expressing irritation with me when I post.

Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at 05:53 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Another stupid question

Do you have to actually have people read stuff on your blog to qualify as a blogger? If so, I guess I might not be a blogging mouse, after all.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 02:45 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 20, 2004

Interesting Styling Problem

I'm having an... interesting... styling problem. Take a look at one of my individual entry pages - say, this one. It doesn't look very special, right? In fact, it is pretty ugly.

But the code that I am editing and then posting into the template looks great if I look at it on my own home computer. It looks like how I want it - with some nice styles and everything. I use IE both times and the styling is in the document - not on a separate style sheet. But, hey, what's happening? Don't say its an IE thing, because it does the same with FireFox.

Is it something when MT is converting all of those starting tags?

It's odd. And I'm a little confused.

NEVERMIND - I figured it out. Suffice to say, I'm an idiot. Now you can all just make fun of what I did. I'm still tweaking some though.

Posted by: Daniel at 07:38 PM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm just sayin', you know

Not meaning to be mean, as it might dry up the free cheese supply, but me thinks Madfish Willie ought to post some useful help on how to make clickable links with MT.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 04:52 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Just wondering

At work, a big part of my job is system optimization - making things run as quickly and as efficiently as possible (can't always have both at the same time). Sometimes it's necessary to tell the users that although something would be nice to have, it might be impractical.

The last post about time zones made me think of this. Pixy, when you do these magic fixes or patches, how much does it cost in terms of overall system speed? Are there certain kinds of magic that aren't worth the overhead?

I work on mainframes, so this PC stuff is pure curiousness to me.

Posted by: Ted at 03:13 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Miss Kitty Update

Bird Brain has been a bit disappointed at the lack of well wishers for Miss Kitty. I am not all that sure I want to wish her well myself, what with the times that she has come with an inch of taking my life, but still, she is a fellow creature and I am sure it is not all that fun at the Morris the Cat Clinic for Felines with Substance Abuse Problems.

As for myself, thanks to someone having left a very nice wheel of baby Swiss cheese unattended earlier today and having a few days of not worrying about having a cat breathing right on the back of my neck, I am feeling like I am on the top of the world. Bird Brain, Bill Bulldog and myself would love to have as many of you as possible come around for a visit every once in awhile. Of course, we also realize you all probably have a lot more important things than to keep up with what a Parrot, a Bulldog and a Mouse, and maybe our Miss Kitty, once she has kicked that catnip addiction, are up to on occasion.

A special message to Kang. A. Roo: Will you please stop emailing us to death asking if we will let you take Miss Kitty's place. We don't have room in our house for a kangaroo, and besides, our unnamed human benefactor is the one in charge of who or what gets to live here.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 03:01 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 19, 2004

A couple of comments and a question

I was on Ms. Apropos blog and saw that her Munuvian list was showing updates and was ecstatic, thinking yeah! and then looked at mine and it was now showing updates. I examined her source to see if maybe there was a new code for the list showing updates that I had missed but found she just had a special blogroll listing for Munuvians. Oh well.

Miss Kitty is going into treatment for her catnip addiction problems and Bird Brain is asking that you flood the comments with well wishing messages for her.

Now to the question: Can anyone explain why updated posts from Beyond the Black Hole show up almost halfway down the listing on the Recent Post listing to the right even though they might have been posted only a couple of seconds ago? Give your answer in mouse speak, preferably.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 05:47 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 18, 2004

MuNu Pull Down Additions

New entries coded for the pull down menu

<option value="http://ace.mu.nu/">Ace of Spades HQ</option>
<option value="http://publicola.mu.nu/">Publicola</option>
<option value="http://auterriffic.mu.nu/">Auterriffic</option>
<option value="http://desertraspberry.mu.nu/">Desert Raspberry</option>

UPDATE: The new entries have also been added to the full script - see Madfish Willies list of tech stuff in the side bar. In the future, I will paste new sites there as I update my own template.

UPDATE:The spelling of Auterriffic has been corrected here and in the full script.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 06:30 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Useful Thingies

Thanks to Madfish Willie we now have a list of useful thingies over on the right.

...

No, your other right. Yes, that's it! Click!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:02 PM | Comments (27) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 17, 2004

YourSQL

Hi-ho everybody!

I ran an experiment yesterday in which I converted the whole MuNu Movable Type database to MySQL to see if it would make a difference in performance.

It does. It makes a big difference.

It seems to be three to five times faster for normal-type stuff, and fourteen times faster in my super-killer stress test.

Now, obviously we want to convert to MySQL ASAP. Only problem is, the conversion program itself is abysmally slow - it took about eight hours to run. And any posts or comments made while it's running will be lost.

So, what I propose to do is this: Next weekend (which is a long weekend for me, fortuitously enough) I will turn off posting and commenting (with a nice friendly message) and convert everything. As soon as it's done, I'll turn everything back on, and you can all jump in and do whatever it is you do.

I'll post a more exact time closer to the day. One thing to be aware of - if you start writing a long post, and then I turn posting off, and then you click save, it will go bye-bye. So what I might do is copy the database and leave posting turned on; that way you can save your post but you will have to copy it manually to the new system (cut-and-paste).

Does any of this make sense to anyone?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:00 PM | Comments (30) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Thingys & Doodads - II

In this edition of Thingys & Doodads, we'll look at the extended entry thingy and detail a javascript doodad to improve the blog interface, making your site more reader friendly.

Let's discuss the extended entry thingy. Since this post will be fairly lengthy, we can use it for an example. I'll do the main discussion points in the # Entry Body and put the javascript and installation instructions in the # Extended Entry

First, from the Movable Type User Manual: ENTRIES

# Entry Body

# Extended Entry

Collectively these two fields make up the body of your entry. You can use the two fields however you like: you could split up your entry over the two fields, or you could completely ignore the Extended Entry text and enter only the Entry Body text. Movable Type allows you to split up your entry for more flexibility in the display of that entry; for example, if you write very long entries, you may not want your entire entry on your index pages. You can use the two fields to control what gets displayed, and where.

Note that when the text of your entry and extended entry fields are output into your public weblog, paragraphs--blocks of text separated by two line breaks--will be automatically converted using the Text Formatting option you have selected. The default formatting is to enclose paragraphs within <p> and </p>> tags, and to convert line breaks to <br /> tags. If you do not want this formatting to occur, you can select None for the text formatting.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 07:17 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Blog Entry Times

Hi. Thought I'd pop over here with what could well be a truly idiotic question: how are the default times set for our blog entries? Is there a way I can use MTto change the posting times on my individual blog (Little Miss Attila) to correlate with Pacific Standard Time in the U.S.?

Let me know. Thanks!

Posted by: Attila at 12:13 AM | Comments (17) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 16, 2004

MAC OS X MT Tip

If you are using Safari for blogging - or for very much of anything you need to go to Unsanity and download their nifty little free Safari widgit.

As much as I am a fan of Apple and really love Safari, I can't for the life of me understand why they built in a 60 second timeout. The Unsanity widgit will fix that.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:29 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The Prodigal Hound has returned

Yes, it is true. Bill Bulldog has been found and he tells the story of the whole sordid affair for any that would care to hear it.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 02:43 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 15, 2004

Lost Dog Notice

Lost, White Bulldog. Answers to the name Bill Bulldog. Keyboards with index claw of left front paw. Last seen at Beyond the Black Hole on April 13, 2004. If found, please contact Mr Mouse or Bird Brain at Beyond the Black Hole. If a cat answers, hang up. Miss Kitty has stated that she refuses to be involved in any way with an recovery efforts pertaining to Bill Bulldog.

Posted by: Mr Mouse at 06:40 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

A call to arms!

Sir Robert of XSet has taken to the field to defend his honor and the precepts of humor. Those very same precepts that Munuviana itself was formed upon! Help the hamsters of justice defeat the evil forces of form letter spewing PR hacks. Stop by command central to pick up your orders and get a look at the other units in the field.

In other blogwar news, Michele of A Small Victory (a friend of Munuviana for many an age) is raising forces to do battle against Dastardly Dean the Munu Hater. Battle will be joined on Monday. The goal - raising the most support for Spirit of America.

Let Michele know that she has the support of the hamsters of Munu. And maybe a cow puppy or two. I did.

Posted by: Jim at 11:25 AM | Comments (19) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

April 14, 2004

MT ain't the only sheriff in town, it seems (but Blogger ain't never been the deputy)

Wow, Electric Venom abandoned MT for Word Press. Some of the feature of Word Press:

  • Instant publishing with no rebuilding
  • Full standards compliance
  • Integrated blogrolling features
  • Password-protected posts
  • Dead simple upgrades and installation
  • Dozens of styles and templates
  • Multiple authors
  • Multiple categories
  • Sub-categories
  • Semantic elegance
  • Uses PHP and MySQL
Of course, a couple of these features are available with MT, but I like the password protected post idea, the integrated blogrolling, and publishing without rebuilding. I am not quite sure what is meant by semantic elegance, however. Maybe that means there will be automatic spell checking.

So Pixy, how is Minx coming along? Are we gonna be able to kick Word Press butt?

Posted by: notGeorge at 08:22 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Thingys & Doodads - I

Thingys & Doodads, aka javascripts and MT coding, are things that can make your blog more reader friendly.

One of the doodads I like to employ on my site is to list the blogs that link to a particular post under my posted by line. I figger that if they link to my site, the least I can do is to make sure my reader can see who linked what from where without having to open the trackback window. Think about it for a second... how many times do you click through the trackback window to see who linked to a post... none???

Here is a sample of what the code produces:

ThingysDoodads.gif

In the extended entry, I have listed the code and given instructions as to where to insert it into your template. If you have any trouble installing it, let me know and I'll help you out.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 07:31 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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