Thursday, June 30, 2005
(8:46 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Haloscan is not working
As of now. At several sites, I have gotten errors saying not to post comments more than once every thirty seconds, then saying that I have over 10,000 more seconds to go if I want to post one. It seems likely that the service will be unreliable throughout the day.That is not to say, however, that blogological dialogue is not possible. Jared Woodard of our sister site à Gauche has
On another note, at around 6am, there was incredibly loud thunder in the greater Chicago area -- it was actually setting off car alarms. Reportedly, when it woke up Anthony this morning, he immediately assumed it was a nuclear bomb.
UPDATE: Didn't Word used to have a feature where it would bring up the "open" box in the last folder you used? It seems unnecessary to default to "My Documents" every time, since there is, in fact, a big honkin' button that can take you directly to that folder in case of emergency. Having had my coffee supply disrupted somewhat, I just stared at the window for a minute, thinking, "Where did all my files go?" I was too groggy to be really worried, though.
Since I still can't post comments, even though 6 other people can, I would like to point out that Long Sunday is unlikely to make any immediate inroads into our market share due to declining participation from key bloggers, rampant absenteeism among listed contributors (LSINO's, let's call them), and their continued failure to write link-whore-able posts. (I solve The Weblog's rampant absenteeism problem by not listing contributors. It was funny, though, the last time Robb posted -- you remember him? He used to post here kind of a lot -- and someone asked in comments, "Who are you?")
UPDATE (2): Adam Robinson makes Update #2 once again -- since I can't leave comments at your site, either, e-mail me an article telling me the rest of your damn story! The Times cut you off at "the next day."
UPDATE (3): I've decided that this is going to be the "obnoxiously self-referential post." I feel like we've all shown remarkable self-control in that regard lately, especially me, so I'm going to indulge myself today.
So here's the question: What would everyone think of changing the page so as to make one massive sidebar on the right hand only? I'm thinking this would be the order of the items:
- Recent Posts
- Ad Box
- About the Weblog
- Weblog-related Materials
- Blogroll
- Scholarly Resources
- Google Search
- Unapologetic tackiness
But no, I'm never going back to the yellow background color, ever, unless Monica Bennett promises to post once a week for the next two months -- or, failing that, unless some yellow partisan manages to convince Tara Smith to agree to a similar regimen.
UPDATE (4): Obviously plans have changed somewhat. Faced with the prospect of either starting to do actual work or tweaking my blog template, the choice was obvious. I saved a backup of the old template, so changing back is a simple matter. Now you have a visual to assess.
