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November 11, 2003

MT help plea + News

I'll just get straight to the point, and I'm hoping some of the MT gurus amongst us can help:

1. how do I block the Comment spam? I keep blocking the IPs but I read somewhere there's some kind of code you can add to block it out. Can someone please point me to where I can find this?

2. Pixy: any luck with the EntryIfComments plug in and uploading my archives? Or are they all still stuck in the big Crash of 2003?

3. What do I need to do to get the comments section to "remember" people?

In cheerier news, should any fellow Mununiks be in or near Hong Kong on 26th November, I'm trying to get the first HK Blogger "Convention" organised. Convention is a loose word here. Let me know.

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November 10, 2003

Blogiversary

Kang has been postin' for one whole month now. Go by and congratulate him. He likes cash in case you were thinkin' of takin' him somethin'.

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November 09, 2003

Growing name recognition

Margi Lowry writes:

What a FINE catch! Mr. Green. A Munuvanian? Those are some cool people.

Hmm, looks like people are starting to notice us, and without any proselytizing, either. <semi-inappropriate analogy>We're sort of like the Jews: world domination, behind the scenes...</semi-inappropriate analogy>

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Moon during eclipse

I took this picture with my Sony digital camera last night during the full lunar eclipse. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it's not too bad.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 07:44 PM | Comments (138) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

November 08, 2003

Air Munuviana update

Over at Rocket Jones. Pictures.

Posted by: Ted at 08:59 PM | Comments (137) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Susie Spouts Off

I haven't posted anything here in awhile, but not having anything interesting to say never stops me on my own blog, so I'm not going to let that influence me here.

Anyway, I want to thank Jennifer for interviewing me, and Mr. Taylor (aka the Bartender) and Daniel for sending in a question. Your ~~bribes~~ thank you cards are in the mail.

Victor, I'm sorry I forgot to mention that you went to zulu time too. Now post something, OK?
And not another weather report--it's frickin' 27 degrees F here and I can't find my gloves!

Bob finished his great detective story--go read it! In order it goes Part One, Part Two, Part Three. You younger kids (Daniel, Jennifer) get the older ones (Mookie) to explain the genre to you first.

Speaking of Mookie, her dad drags her out to look at eclipses...poor kid.

LeeAnn has a cool new tagline: "agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial". LOL!!!!

Posted by: Susie at 04:28 PM | Comments (135) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Logo...

Hows this for a new MuNu logo? View image

Posted by: Mookie at 12:46 AM | Comments (139) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

November 07, 2003

All Hail Pixy Misa

Just a quick thanks, Pix, for fixing the header graphics on my blog. I love them. I owe you.

And I am not saying this in any high-school kiss-up kind of way.

Thanks

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 10:25 PM | Comments (142) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Writer's Noose

Can I just ask what happens to Writer's Noose now the whole sorry saga has come to a grizzly end? Does it just one day mysteriously drop off the world famous (and much envied) MuNu blogroll? Is that Chuck's final revenge?

While I'm at it how does that blogroll work? For example the semi-secret JenLab ain't there. Is there some secret process to making the list? Ooooh, I know, we all get to vote and then Pixy decides anyway. That works, right?

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November 06, 2003

Wups

I spent the money for the new server on Dungeons and Dragons goodies. So it will be at least another month before we move.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing... The longer I leave it, the better the deals will get. And the current server has two very strong points in its favour: it works, and it is dirt cheap.

Meanwhile, I'll get the forums up and running, and maybe tweak the MT installation a little. Couple of new plugins and such.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:23 PM | Comments (148) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Crying Crocodile Tears

Nobody loves the lowly kangaroo.

Posted by: Tiger at 03:05 AM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

November 05, 2003

Blog Tweek Testing

Is there a way to test tweek changes to my blog without saving and rebuilding everytime? I know in blog*spot, there was a preview feature to use before accepting changes. Also, how come a design change only works for a day then starts screwing up? I take out some of the weird scripts that may be causing it to mess up, but still not effective and had to change back to an earlier design index. Thanks for the help?

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 09:33 PM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Not sure I understand.

"Also, how come a design change only works for a day then starts screwing up?"

Can ye provide more detailed info?

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 06, 2003 04:09 AM

2 Initially, I had my blog set up with two columns and no "gutter" or margin in between them. I changed the margins and main column width% and put in a gutter and it worked fine for half a day. Then it started throwing the sidebar down at the bottom of all the posts for some reason.

Right now I have the design back with the gutter in it and a smaller main column width%. I want to see if it going to do the same thing again tomorrow. Before though all the margins and gutter were balanced, now they are not balanced as you can tell.

Posted by: The Bartender @ at November 06, 2003 04:20 AM

3 It doesn't work in Mozilla, by the way. In fact, it's pretty much illegible.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 06, 2003 06:28 AM

4 Mr Green is also not Mozilla-friendly in his lovely new 'decor by Jen'--I just vist him and the Bartender with IE...

Posted by: Susie @ at November 06, 2003 07:09 AM

5 Susie, did you have the same problem at jenlab when I had the Mr Green template up? (And if so, why didn't you tell me?)

Posted by: Jennifer @ at November 06, 2003 09:49 AM

6 Are the sidebars floating elements? Those can get messed up based on the content that's in the main element they are defined in. If you don't have enough real estate for a fixed item like a graphic or a table with defined size plus the sidebar either the content won't start until after the sidebar or the sidebar will get pushed down below that fixed size item.

Posted by: Jim @ at November 06, 2003 11:48 AM

7 Mister Green looks fine for me in Mozilla. I'm running version 1.5.

I just brought it up in IE - the two look almost identical.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 06, 2003 11:52 AM

8 I guess it's my referers script that's causing the problems. I took it out and it works again. But why didn't it do that last night and earlier this am when I pulled the site?

Jim - Thanks for the info. (I'll file that away for future reference to help some other dumbass like me in the future.) My columns are set up as percentages of width. I know how to set up for fixed width by setting the pixel width, but how do you establish and absolute fixed position.

I cannot seem to find anything in the MT on-line user manual to accomplish some of these things. Is there another on-line resource someone can point me to?

Posted by: The Bartender @ at November 06, 2003 05:33 PM

9 Hmm...I have 1.4...think that could be it?

Posted by: Susie @ at November 06, 2003 10:31 PM

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Foxtrot blog humor

Heh - "Close your tag..."

DFM

Posted by: Daniel at 07:51 PM | Comments (136) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Luuk Hosting

By the way, I have a little bear that is making his way round the world to take photos and have his passport signed. For those of you in mu.nu that are interested, let me know on my site.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 08:40 AM | Comments (131) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

MuNu Mk II

I'm looking at moving mu.nu to a new server for a couple of reasons. I'd like something faster, with more disk space and memory and bandwidth - not because you guys need it (except that a faster CPU will speed up Movable Type, which can be a bit sluggish) - but so I can play.

The other thing I'd like to get is cPanel. cPanel will allow you to jump from just having a mu.nu blog to having all sorts of mu.nu goodies - email, chat rooms, forums, and, um, stuff like that. FTP logins, mailing lists, spam filters, subdomains, a file manager, databases, SSH access...

Anyway, take a look at the link above, play with the demo a bit, and let me know if you like it. The software costs $1400 to buy, but if I go with the right hosting company, I can get it for $10 per month instead. But there's not much point if none of you munukeys will use it...

(I'd also get this useful munukey manager, but you won't get to play with that...)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:18 AM | Comments (137) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Fair Play vs. Rampant Linkage

This is an important post that everyone should read.

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November 04, 2003

It cannot be!

Steven den Beste says:

That's not a characterization of Europeans I recognize. I would suggest instead the word effete, for which my dictionary offers three meanings:
1. decadent: characterized by decadence, overrefinement, or overindulgence
2. weak: lacking or having lost the strength or ability to get things done
3. barren: no longer able to reproduce
Yes, I think that pretty well summarizes it.

<snark> I don't think SDB and the word "summary" or any of its derivations belong together. </snark> Munuvians, I fear Steven den Beste is not himself. But who would have sufficient skillZ and motive to undermine him?

Only Al Gore. Having invented the Internet, he clearly possesses the requisite knowledge, and being a cyborg he would be able to hack even SDB's site.

Munuvians, we must arise and rescue Steven from the clutches of the Robotic One. To arms, to arms!

Posted by: Tim at 06:46 PM | Comments (155) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Logo

Oughtn't we have some kind of logo? I mean, Cheddar X has one, the Alliance of Free Blogs and Hatred of Leftists or whatever they're called has one, so shouldn't Mu.nu? That would be cool. Like a jpg or something that we all have on the sidebar.

I can't draw to save my life, so I am not volunteering or anything. But I am weighing in on this-it should have a hamster in it. Definitely.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 04:33 PM | Comments (144) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 There is no going back after this, m'dear...with a spicy logo in hand, we will officially be...A CULT.

Posted by: Don @ at November 04, 2003 05:18 PM

2 I thought that we had a whole bunch of them made up. Ted has a bunch and Mookie has some. Also we had all those neat sidebar buttons... now if I could only find them - it was a little while ago...

Posted by: Daniel @ at November 04, 2003 06:13 PM

3 We definitely are a cult. It's true. I suggest a hamster (possibly dancing) with a greek letter mu and nu in the background. They can be dancing too, maybe.

Posted by: Tim the Michigander @ at November 04, 2003 06:49 PM

4 The munu buttons are here

and we are a kitten! the satellite picture proves it! (but we can be a cow puppy if everyone else insists)

Posted by: Susie @ at November 04, 2003 06:59 PM

5 No, the kitten is great! How can we argue with satellite pictures?

Posted by: Daniel @ at November 04, 2003 08:44 PM

6 Could we have a hamster with cow markings? Or a kitten with cow markings?
But no udders. Udders are just creepy.

Posted by: LeeAnn @ at November 04, 2003 08:54 PM

7 My cat looks like a cow! He has markings like a holstein dairy cow! His name is Harold! He craps outside! He is cool!

Posted by: The Bartender @ at November 04, 2003 09:42 PM

8 I vote for a platypus with holstein cow markings

Posted by: Kang A. Roo @ at November 05, 2003 12:17 AM

9 He craps outside!

Always a good thing.

He is cool!

Yup.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 05, 2003 12:46 AM

10 Jennifer came up with a bunch of cow and cow puppy logos ("Got mu?"), and I remember something about asking for a viking kitten with cow markings once, but I guess we never settled on anything. I definately think we need a logo. Maybe a kitten and a hamster grillin' up a veal steak on the barbie? Nah...

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 05, 2003 02:19 AM

11 How 'bout a cameo-type thingy (think of like the MGM logo) with a calf sticking it's head out of the oval (maybe drinking from a milk bottle) with a ribbon underneath that reads "mu.nu"?

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 05, 2003 02:26 AM

12 "Got mu.nu?"

Posted by: The Bartender @ at November 05, 2003 02:45 AM

13 If you people come to any kind of agreement, I can make one. I gave up when everyone wanted a different variation.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at November 05, 2003 04:43 AM

14 I vote hamster with cow markings.

I'm all about going cult, babies.

Posted by: Helen @ at November 05, 2003 07:26 AM

15 We're not a cult. We just worship Pixy, have strange blogs on our roll, follow the "golden 7 rules", pledge alliegence to....ohhhh, hang on a sec.

Let's get one of those voting things setup from Pollhost or some such, get this sorted. Then we can finally unleash ourselves on the world...bhwuhahhahahaha

Posted by: Simon @ at November 05, 2003 10:22 AM

16 RATS! OUR LOGO SHOULD BE RATS! LOTS OF RATS! LIKE IN WILLARD, OR THE NOO-YAWK SEWERS!

In other news: He craps outside!
It takes so little to keep you happy

Posted by: Victor @ at November 05, 2003 01:35 PM

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Survivor: The Blogosphere Edition

I'm trying to put together a Blog version of Survivor. I already asked Master Pixy for a seperate blog and if he sees fit to grant me that request, I'll need a banner designed. As I recall, one of my Munuviana friends has the capability to do this. Who might that be and would she be able to design a banner for said blog? Let me know...DWatkins3@ossva.com.

Posted by: Don at 02:22 PM | Comments (139) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Is it just me?

Or are we getting slower? Especially popping comments on MuNu blogs seems to be taking a long time. RSS pulls are still lightning fast but opening a page off of an RSS link is also taking a while.

Or is it just me?

Posted by: Jim at 09:53 AM | Comments (140) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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