Anyone want to crawl through the Ecosystem, add up all the links for the mu.nu bloggers, and work out what sort of critter we rate as a group?

I'd do it except that it's time for my nap.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:34 AM | Comments (157) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Good reason to use Sitemeter rather than Blogpatrol.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:53 AM | Comments (157) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 And what was the good reason? Or was that a question rather than a statement?

Posted by: Susie @ at August 31, 2003 12:02 PM

2 They show more hits was the reason, I assumed.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at August 31, 2003 12:09 PM

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Munuviana has jumped another couple of categories and is now a Flippery Fish.

And Ambient Irony has transformed itself into a Marauding Marsupial!

I get a lot of those where I live. Both ring tails (so cute!) and brush tails (so not cute!)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:39 AM | Comments (156) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

How do I "enable Category archives."??
Thanks

Posted by: Mookie at 03:45 AM | Comments (169) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

For Publius, for Rocket Jones
For Cherry's Ram-b'-lings
For Mookieriffic bloggery
all spread by Susie's pings

Munuvia, Munuvia,
dogs shed their fleece on thee.
And crown thy good with bloggerhood
and Collinize for free!

The irony is ambient
at Pixy Misa's blog
the Michigander's name is Tim
and Tuning Spork's is Bob

Munuvia, Munuvia,
dogs spread their pee on trees.
And crown thy good with bloggerhood
and JenLars' hist-o-ry!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 02:20 AM | Comments (173) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I like it!

Posted by: Rachael @ at August 31, 2003 02:39 AM

2 opps. haven't updated the URL on the comments page. lol

Posted by: Rachael @ at August 31, 2003 02:39 AM

3 Nice

Posted by: Jennifer @ at August 31, 2003 02:50 AM

4 Great! (Now I'll have it stuck in my head all day).

Posted by: Tim the Michigander @ at August 31, 2003 04:13 AM

5 bravo!

Posted by: Ted @ at August 31, 2003 04:32 AM

6 Woot!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 31, 2003 04:54 AM

7 Wow! We have our own anthem! Cool! Now we just need a flag and we can apply for foreign aid and field an Olympic keyboarding team....

Posted by: Susie @ at August 31, 2003 06:29 AM

8 I can do a Flag! Just tell me what to put on it! =D

Posted by: Rachael @ at August 31, 2003 02:53 PM

9 Hmmm. How 'bout a marauding marsupial climbing the leg of a higher being with the caption "I tread on thee"? Or not.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at September 01, 2003 04:07 AM

10 LOL Tuning Spork

Posted by: Cherry @ at September 01, 2003 05:20 AM

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Well, I found this whatchamacallit in the dropdown thingee from "view" in my browser doohickey, and changed to "smallest" text size. The list of munuvians returned to the right side, but the calendar and everything else is still at the bottom! IE IE IE......oh.... poo... (that's my new theme song!).

Posted by: Susie at 09:28 PM | Comments (163) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

In a single bound, Munuviana has leapt from Insignificant Microbosity to Crunchy Crustaceaness!

Though something is slightly odd, as the details page lists both 3 and 8 inbound links at the same time. Perhaps an update is in progress right now...

Meanwhile Ambient Irony has at last escaped birdhood and become an Adorable Little Rodent! Squee squee!

Thanks for the ping tsunami, Susie!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:45 PM | Comments (155) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

First, you need to have Category Archiving enabled. You can find this in Weblog Config, on the Archiving page.

Then, add this in a suitable spot in your main template:

<div class="sidetitle">
Contents
</div>
<div class="side">
<MTCategories>
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a><br>
</MTCategories>
</div>

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:32 PM | Comments (158) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I like the category feature, and have several already that I use. How can I list them on the side so people can click a category and see just those entries?

Posted by: Ted at 06:24 PM | Comments (165) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Of blog maintainence and blond jokes, I have some of each....

Reisplay, the Calendar (tho' not the "Calendar thingee" title) and everything below that are showing BELOW the posts for me (though the MUNU blogs are listed to the right as I assume they are intended to be...)

Re: the activity log--glad you saved a copy for posterity...some of the seach inquiries were quite amusing....

Re: Categories--there ain't none! Shall there be some with Pixy Misa's patented cool graphics? Or is that asking too much of the Benevolent Ruler of Munuviana?

Re: blonde jokes--my sister emailed me a gazillion one-liners. Here are a few of the choicer ones:

How Blonde Was She?

She Was Sooooooooooooooo Blonde.....

She thought a quarterback was a refund.
She thought General Motors was in the army.
She thought Meow Mix was a CD for cats.
She thought Boyz II Men was a day care center.
At the bottom of an application where it says "sign here", she wrote
"Sagittarius".
She thought Eartha Kitt was a set of garden tools.
She thought TuPac Shakur was a Jewish holiday.
Under "education" on her job application, she put "Hooked On Phonics".
She spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said
"Concentrate".
When she missed the 44 bus, she took the 22 bus twice instead.
When she went to the airport and saw a sign that said, "Airport Left",
she turned around and went home.
When she heard that 90% of all crimes occur around the home, she moved.
She thinks Taco bell is the Mexican phone company.

AND, last but not least .............
She had a shirt that said "TGIF", which she thought stood for "Tits Go In
Front

Posted by: Susie at 04:59 PM | Comments (162) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 LOL

Posted by: Ted @ at August 30, 2003 06:28 PM

2 Re: Display: It's your big fonts getting in the way, I think. It doesn't happen with Mozilla, but it does with IE. IE is poo.

Re: Categories: I'll set it up so that everyone can add categories. That should engender a certain amount of chaos. Once it settles down a bit, I'll see about cooking up some graphics. Have to get the new Ambient Irony layout done first...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at August 30, 2003 07:07 PM

3 I told you! I inherited my big fonts from my mother, and it would be danged unnatural to get 'em reduced!!!!!

What? no html in comments? what kind of blog are you running here, oh Benevolent Ruler?

Posted by: Susie @ at August 30, 2003 09:01 PM

4 How do you keep a blond(e) distracted for hours?
Write "To see something funny, turn paper over" on both sides of a piece of paper. (I've actually done this to people, who actually turned the paper over more than once.) Another fun thing to do is gesture towards the sky and say "Look, a dead bird!" (hint: dead birds don't fly too well)

Posted by: Tim the Michigander @ at August 31, 2003 04:19 AM

5 LOL Tim!!!

Posted by: Susie @ at August 31, 2003 06:31 AM

6 she was sooooooooooooooo blond

Posted by: ed skeans @ at October 16, 2005 03:05 AM

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Yes, Jennifer, Munuviana is part of the Ecosystem. Though so far it's among the most insignificant of the Insignificant Microbes, outgoing links will still work fine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM | Comments (161) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 See, though, that "Jennifer" should be a link to me. You don't get the whole "gratuitous linkage" concept, do ya?

Posted by: Jennifer @ at August 30, 2003 05:18 AM

2 Hmm, don't you think TTLB will get suspicious when a certain ten blogs have more links than Instapundit. You're gonna get us all expelled from the Ecosystem -- but hey, if we go down with a big explosion, maybe we'll all get Instalinks. And that's the raison d'etre to blogging anyway, right?

Posted by: Tim the Michigander @ at August 30, 2003 06:08 AM

3 hey! that's how i found this place

Posted by: aldahlia @ at August 30, 2003 06:28 AM

4 Yay, I got pinged! ;-)

Posted by: Jennifer @ at August 30, 2003 04:28 PM

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I cleared out the Activity Log, since it was getting a bit big. Of course, I saved a copy first for posteriority.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:45 AM | Comments (175) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Trackbacks are a link-tracking system. If, in a post, I was to link to - say - Ted's post about cats Movable Type would see the link, realise (automagically) that it's a link to a post on another blog, and send that blog a ping. Assuming that Ted's blog is working properly, it will record the fact that I have made a comment about his post. By clicking on the trackback link under his post, Ted can see who has linked to him and what they have said.

How do I get the link to go to the post rather than Ted's blog? Well, under each post, where it says "Posted by so-and-so at 11:24 AM", the 11:24 AM is actually a link to the post. Right-click on the link and Copy Shortcut (Copy Link Location in Mozilla) and then paste it into your blog at the appropriate place. Viola!

There's more details to be found in the Movable Type Users Manual, but that's all you need to know to get started.

One extra trick: You can list as many links as you like in the URLs to Ping box, and they will get pinged (ping?) as well, so I can quickly and easily ping all the mu.nu blogs at once. Like this.

Update: Or maybe it will puke on my shoes instead.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:04 AM | Comments (160) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

What exactly is trackback? pinging? How does it work? Can you point me to a 'blogging for dummies' site for answers?

Coming right down to it, the "Pixy" part is easy, but is that last bit 'Meesa' or 'Misa'?

Werds is importnent, thass wyy I use so manne uv them.

Posted by: Ted at 10:08 PM | Comments (174) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

At least that's how I settled on it after 10 minutes of trying all possible variations.

I'm easily amused.

Posted by: Ted at 10:04 PM | Comments (154) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

The layout looks kind of weird with the sidebar being longer than the body, so I'll post a few things just to pad it out and make sure it's working right.

My regular blog is Ambient Irony; I go by the name of Pixy Misa (my real name being a secret known to only a few... dozen), and I run the server that hosts mu.nu. Like most of my fellow Munuvians, I'm a former Blogspotter, now a wandering minstrel, a thing of threads and patches, of rambles, blogs and dispatches...

I blog about whatever happens to be crossing my mind when I happen to have a free moment and it looks like it won't get me into trouble. This includes technology - I'm a geek, after all; anime - as I said, geek; funny stuff I found on the 'net; and other blogs and bloggers. Although I'm not apolitical, I rarely blog about politics, though from time to time I'll point to a post or a blog that I think is particularly insightful or informative.

As for me - Well, I'm ten years old, I live in Japan with my mother, and whenever I get the opportunity I transform into my evil alter ego and wreak havoc on the people of Tokyo. Mwahahaha!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:55 PM | Comments (175) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

From the magical land of Munuvia, where bloggers' dreams come true, this is Munuviana! (Damn, I keep typing Muniviana.)

Coming soon - content! Maybe.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:40 PM | Comments (159) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I am posting in a blog that's not even here yet...could this be any cooler?

Dear Pixy, you may delete this entry.... I am overtired and silly (oh, wait--that means I'm normal....)

Posted by: Susie at 01:55 PM | Comments (149) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)