I am under attack by the comment spam robots. I need reinforcements. Tiger blog.

Posted by: Tiger at 05:11 AM | Comments (129) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Add this to your appropriate template(s) to enable smilies:

<MTMacroDefine name="happy" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="sad" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_sad.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="happy2" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="grin" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz1" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz2" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz3" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="razz4" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>
<MTMacroDefine name="wink" string="">
<img src="http://www.mu.nu/Forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="">
</MTMacroDefine>

Also, if anyone wants to set up a nice proper regexp set of smilie macros, feel free to post it here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:01 PM | Comments (118) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 17, 2004 01:07 PM

2 Where in one's template does one insert this?

Posted by: Susie @ at January 17, 2004 07:23 PM

3 Somewhere near the top.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 18, 2004 01:42 AM

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Posted by: Nick Queen @ at August 02, 2004 08:29 PM

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Pixy,
In a later iteration of Minx, how about an add-on or integrated RRS aggregator? (is that what it's called?) Might be a worthwhile followup project.

Posted by: Ted at 01:35 PM | Comments (122) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

How about a code snippet, or some such to make a webring from the MuNu domains? You know what I'm talking about - with the /previous/random/next/ links?

Posted by: Jim at 12:33 AM | Comments (118) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

There's a demo of the Minx editor widget thingy up on the Minx development blog here.

Let me know what you think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:51 AM | Comments (134) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've loaded Steven Downe's referrer system onto Mu.nu.

To use it, simply cut and paste this into your template:

<script language="Javascript" src="http://blog.mu.nu/referrers.js"></script>

<div class="sidetitle">
Referrers
</div>

<div class="side">
<script language="Javascript" src="http://blog.mu.nu/referrers.js"></script>
</div>

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:17 PM | Comments (126) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Umm - Pixy? What's this that I read over at Slashdot?

"The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer with us, after waves from Cyclone Heta swept over Niue's thirty metre cliffs, destroying everything. Although only one person died, the damage is so bad that there is talk of winding up the country , meaning their fortuitous ccTLD could go the way of .su. Perhaps the easiest way for Slashdotters to help Niue would be to choose a .nu domain over the dull alternatives."

Just curious. I kind of like our TLD...

Posted by: Daniel at 12:01 PM | Comments (138) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yes, I saw that.

While I'd be very unhappy if the nu TLD disappeared (taking mu.nu with it), it isn't likely. The su TLD still exists and works today, and it's been a long time since there was a Soviet Union.

I think it's just another case of Slashdotters getting overwrought (as is their wont).

According to this article, there are 110,000 active .nu domains, 70,000 of which are used in Sweden (apparently nu is Swedish for "now"). I doubt that a TLD with 110,000 active domains (at 60 euros a year each!) would get closed down in a hurry.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 13, 2004 12:30 PM

2 Also, the talks regarding Niue becoming part of New Zealand mention Norfolk Island as a model. (Norfolk Island is part of Australia.)

Norfolk Island has its own TLD, .nf.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 13, 2004 12:34 PM

3 even if the island does go down the pan, with 100,000 nu domains it will be taken over by someone - thats way to much guarenteed income to pass up!

Posted by: Robert @ at January 13, 2004 02:12 PM

4 What's a TLD?

Posted by: Victor @ at January 14, 2004 02:31 AM

5 Top Level Domain.

More specifically, .nu is a ccTLD - Country Code Top Level Domain.

.com, .net, .org and so on are non-cc TLDs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 14, 2004 04:19 AM

6 If I ever notice that www.denbeste.nu suddenly becomes www.denbeste.blogspot.com, I'll worry. 'Til then: Let the cow puppies graze!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at January 14, 2004 04:20 AM

7 If the worst happens and .nu does disappear, we will have a home at munu.net. Not quite as nice, but better than blogspot.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 14, 2004 08:54 AM

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I've got the new server, configured just the way I wanted.

Happy happy!

Just waiting for Fantastico to be installed, then I can start loading stuff up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:00 AM | Comments (131) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Sweetness! Congrats Pixy, I'm doing a happy dance in your honor.

Posted by: Jim @ at January 13, 2004 01:56 PM

2 You're too good to us. Enjoy the new toy, we certainly will.

Posted by: Ted @ at January 13, 2004 07:07 PM

3 Yay!

~M 0.o Kie~

Posted by: Mookie @ at January 13, 2004 10:48 PM

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How do I make it so that when the pointer is over an image, instead of showing something like "Image1.jpg" it shows what I want? Like A Small Victory used to have with the little dead girl.

Posted by: Mookie at 12:14 AM | Comments (120) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

My friend Carolann drew this. I haven't fudged with it any, so this is the original as it is on paper. View image

Posted by: Mookie at 07:49 PM | Comments (132) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 12, 2004 11:19 PM

2 Ha!

Posted by: Victor @ at January 13, 2004 02:24 AM

3 Cool!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 13, 2004 04:20 PM

4 I like it.

Posted by: Tiger @ at January 16, 2004 01:00 AM

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Mu Nu is getting a new home!

The new server is an Athlon XP 2500+ (nearly twice as fast as our existing Celeron). It has a gigabyte of memory (twice as much as the existing box), 240 gigabytes of disk (four times as much) and 500 gigabytes of bandwidth per month (five times as much).

Also, it has Fedora Linux, CPanel, and Fantastico, so lots of cool new toys for you to play with.

I should be getting the keys within 48 hours, after which it will take a week or two to get everything set up over there (depending on how busy I am with other stuff).

Company: Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:31 AM | Comments (143) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 07:07 AM

2

Actually, it will probably only have 180GB of usable disk because the two 60GB drives will be mirrored. I hope... (It has two 60GB drives and a 120GB.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 12, 2004 10:11 AM

3 Yay!!

Posted by: Jim @ at January 12, 2004 11:54 AM

4 Testing to see if the comments will remember me with IE...

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 02:40 PM

5 nope....*&#!!&^%$#@!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 02:41 PM

6 still trying to get the comments to remember me....

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 03:39 PM

7 It's got to be a ME issue since the problem is happening on both IE and Mozilla...anybody got any ideas to how to fix it? My commenting ratio is going to plummet if I have to identify myself over again every single time...

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 03:41 PM

8 Still trying....

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 03:58 PM

9 Hmm. Are any cookies working? In Mozilla, Tools > Cookie Manager. Make sure that it's not set to block cookies. Take a look in Manage Stored Cookies and see if anything's in the cookie jar.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 12, 2004 04:02 PM

10 Ok--I think I've got it fixed! Thanks! Yay!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 05:06 PM

11 Got confirmation: Mirroring is go. Which is good, 'cause a failed disk on MuNu would be a bad thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 13, 2004 02:53 AM

12 So, it wont take so long to load a Comment? WOO HOO!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at January 13, 2004 03:14 AM

13 Yep. It will give us a bit of a boost until Minx is ready.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 13, 2004 05:01 AM

14 Hello folks nice blog youre running

Posted by: lolita @ at January 20, 2005 01:33 AM

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I haven't posted one of these in a while, but this one is just too funny to pass up...

(the URL is http://munuviana.mu.nu/sex.gif)

Posted by: Daniel at 05:20 AM | Comments (131) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Just as a note:

Over the next two or three weeks I will be taking copies of all the MuNu blogs and pushing them into Minx (which is running on an entirely different server) just to see what breaks. This shouldn't affect anyone in any way, but I thought I should mention it.

I've grabbed Practical Penumbra, Jennifer's History and Stuff and Munuviana so far, and they're giving Minx a good workout.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:10 PM | Comments (129) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Hope I don't break anything!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 07:12 AM

2 You might have bent it a little.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 12, 2004 09:18 AM

3 Yay! It remembered me! Yay!!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 05:04 PM

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Damn. I was busy entering this entry and my computer crashed. This time it was apparently a problem with the video drivers rather than my carnivorous mousie.

Anyway, we've just been hit by a stream of literary spam:

The world is a beautiful book for those who can read it.

Posted by: Campbell Jamie at January 10, 2004 05:06 AM

Truth is a kind and gentle lie.

Posted by: Miles Eli at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property.

Posted by: Walker David at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

People who do not think far enough ahead inevitably have worries near at hand.

Posted by: Camuto Andera Camuto at January 10, 2004 05:04 AM

There are as many translators as there are humans.

Posted by: Townsend Maya at January 10, 2004 04:32 AM

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Posted by: schlanger karen at January 10, 2004 04:14 AM

Anyway, I've added them all to the Blacklist and de-spammed everyone. My good deed for the day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:19 AM | Comments (127) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Well, I finally have my skinning technology worked out and am ready to start working on the skinning of the MuNuviana group site.

There's still on small little glitch that I'm working on, though. It seems that the new skins inherit some of the properties from the previous skin. These properties are mostly the borders, padding, and margins. If they are not explicitly declared in the new skin, they are not changed and show up in the current skin. I've found a work-around by just zeroing them out at the top of the div class code that is affected.

Now, the only other thing that needs to be corrected is a small strip of background color that gets left behind. If you refresh the screen or scroll down the page, the strip goes away. I'm still looking at that and working on a fix. If anyone has experienced the same thing, let me know how you overcame it.

When you select a particular skin, the javascript will set a cookie. When you return to this site, it will remember your skin preference and use that setting to display the content. I have it up at the MadLab if you want to check it out and see how it works.

If anyone wants me to use their stylesheet to skin this site, please e-mail it to me in .doc file format at MadfishWillie@hotmail.com and I'll include it in the list. Personally, I think it would be neat if everyone sent a skin, but that's your decision.

Pixy, in order to do this, I'll need access to the index file and to be able to upload the javascript and the skin stylesheets to a directory I'll call /styles off the current path. I have to make two changes in the head section: 1) declare the path to the skin's stylesheet and 2) install the script filepointer. Then, I need to insert a sidebar section with the code and links for selecting the desired skin. Also, if I get a lot of skins, maybe I should put them in a dropdown box instead of a list. Give me some feedback on how you want to implement the selection process.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 01:29 AM | Comments (159) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

All I can figure is it's one of those "earn millions without ever leaving your home" schemes...I've been noticing that the latest trend in comment spam is for sombody to use a real-sounding name and a real-sounding comment, but the url they leave is some commercial site. I've been adding the urls to our blacklist, but that still leaves the comments in blogs other than mine own...

Stoopid Google....

Posted by: Susie at 01:28 PM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yeah I noticed that too. Fortunately I've only had a couple and they have been on the oldest posts on the site.

Pixy? Hows this for a Minx feature? Within the comment alert email, include links to delete the comment and / or blacklist the sender without even having to faff about with the UI? Whadda you think?

Posted by: rob @ at January 09, 2004 01:42 PM

2 Doh! I left a comment here, but I included and example of some comment spam and MT Blacklist ate it.

So, in a word, yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 10, 2004 12:08 AM

3 In another word, MT Blacklist does this, and Minx will do the same.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 10, 2004 12:54 PM

4 It must work!!! I had about 8 email comment- notifications of this new subversive kind, and all the suspect comments are already gone! Yay!!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 06:40 AM

5 Yay!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 12, 2004 06:48 AM

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Posted by: Susie @ at January 12, 2004 07:15 AM

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I know that usually this particular blog is a clearing house for various Munvianans bits and pieces like welcoming newcomers, helping on templates and the like. And I know everyone gets asked from time to time where does the .mu.nu bit come from? And I even know that the .nu bit comes from a little island called Niue, which sold their rights to the domain to a company called NuNames. It meant a tiny island in the Pacific found a way to supplement their incomes a little.

Little Niue got smashed yesterday by a massive cyclone. You can read about it here. Now I don't often preach or anything, but given the connection between Munu and this little island, I'd like to suggest some kind of Munuvian effort to help our cousins on this island. There doesn't seem to be any appeals setup yet, but the Australia Red Cross has some information and the NZ Red Cross are setting something up.

Just letting y'all know.

UPDATE: Pixy found the link for the donations to NZ Red Cross for this.

Posted by: Simon at 05:21 AM | Comments (124) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

to introduce myself.

I'm a man of wealth and taste."

O.K. so taste is purely subjective and the only wealth I possess is a wealth of opinion and imagination.

My name is Stephen Macklin and I write a blog called Hold The Mayo currently residing @ Blogspot. At the invitation of Rocket Jones, my blog will be moving to mu.nu.

In the process of making the decision to become a Munuvian, I visited most if not all of your sites. If I left a comment it was probably using StMack It was the quality of most of what I saw and read that sealed the deal. I hope my blog will measure up.

It will probably take me some time to get the mu.nu site set up to my satisfaction. I understand design well - which is good since that's how I feed my family and pay the mortgage. But 99.9% of my design work is stuff that gets printed on paper, so tweaking the template will require some trial and much error.

In the mean time I will continue to post to the blogspot site and I invite you all to stop by.

UPDATE: Tweaking the template went better than expected. I have stopped posting new stuff to the blogspot site.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:47 PM | Comments (139) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay! (Does traditional Pixy dance of welcome.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 07, 2004 03:19 PM

2 Welcome aboard, Stephen!

Posted by: Jim @ at January 07, 2004 03:43 PM

3 Is that dance before or after the the traditional Pixy chugging of beer?

Posted by: Ted @ at January 07, 2004 07:38 PM

4 WOOT! Welcome

Posted by: Mookie @ at January 07, 2004 07:43 PM

5 Yay!!! Welcome StMack!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 07, 2004 09:41 PM

6 Hello, and welcome!

hln

Posted by: hln @ at January 07, 2004 11:14 PM

7 Chugging the beer is part of the dance, silly!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 08, 2004 12:21 AM

8 Woo Hoo!! Welcome, Stephen! There're plenty o' Munuvians who can assist in any errors you might wish to avoid the trial of. (oof! bad structure!)

We are present; We are the future; We are Munuvia.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at January 08, 2004 04:07 AM

9 StMack: Welcome to the Party!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at January 08, 2004 05:07 PM

10 Welcome!

(clears throat)
I believe someone mentioned dancing and beer?

Posted by: Linda @ at January 08, 2004 11:08 PM

11 *giggles*

Welcome to the Mad House Mackie!

Posted by: Cherry @ at January 11, 2004 10:55 PM

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Pixy's busy with Minx. It all sounds impressive to me. Anyways, so there I am, gazing at the latest MuNu entries, and, well, look what I found. Methinks Pixy's been busier than we thought.

Posted by: Simon at 01:30 PM | Comments (119) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Ambient Irony has been somewhat self-absorbed of late, not doing much linking or commentry on other blogs, not even my fellow Munuvians. But Steven Den Beste's latest (or second latest) post got me thinking, and now I've got a Clueless-a-lanche!

Yay! Look, ma, readers! Well, Sitemeter hits, anyway.

Update: How's this for a comment:

To quote my good friend and political idol, Darth Vader:

Impressive...

Posted by Bill Whittle at January 7, 2004 03:19 PM

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 PM | Comments (164) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 That's quite a nice spike you've got there!

Posted by: Susie @ at January 06, 2004 09:09 PM

2 That's impressive. Maybe you should think more often?

Posted by: Simon @ at January 07, 2004 02:36 AM

3 But this thinking stuff is hard!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at January 07, 2004 04:57 AM

4 Bill Whittle! I am so-o-o-o-o-o-o hating you right now!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at January 07, 2004 06:25 AM

5 But this thinking stuff is hard!

But it burns fewer calories, and tends to make life less painful in the long run. Would that more people practiced it regularly.

Posted by: Victor @ at January 07, 2004 02:53 PM

6 Wow. I'm speechless with both admiration and envy.

Good show.

Posted by: Linda @ at January 08, 2004 11:01 PM

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