Wipe Your Feet
As you can see, we have new digs. Told you I was busy.
Work is still ongoing and, inevitably, there will be things to tidy or hammer into shape. Or at least cover with a rug. If you spot anything scandalously up-buggered, do let me know. I’ll add it to the enormous list.
While I faff and tinker, and grumble about plug-ins, by all means pass the time by poking through the Reheated series.
Do make yourselves at home. And oh yes, open thread.
Took me a while to notice, but…
Another suggestion:
The comments all display their timestamps as “X minutes ago”.
How about displaying the actual date/time instead?
X minutes/hours ago does avoid the GMT computation issue. Given that we’re spread all over the globe here. I’ve never seen it done but “current time at this location” might help. Or “in current local time”. While I generally don’t have an issue having had to think in GMT for much of my career, for me it’s NBD per se. But having worked internationalization (I18n) issues a good bit, I’ve wondered how “normal” people process these things.
ooh, edit button is under the gear icon. Got it.
X minutes/hours ago does avoid the GMT computation issue.
Reasonable point. I don’t suppose it would be practical to display both forms? On occasion I have wanted to begin a reply with the time of the comment I’m replying to because it was so much earlier in the thread. But no big deal.
Done. That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
Better “Recent Comments” links on the sidebar. Now shows 10 comments with the date & time they were posted. Looking now to get the blogroll back – hopefully without the broken link checker having a melty….
Still can’t fix the bloody side bar dropping to the bottom of this page. Caused, I think, when I attached a 3000 pixel wide photo – so massive pictures in comments are maybe not a good idea.
More picture tests…an attachment with
url links
And a link to Conan
Done.
Thanks. Let’s see how everyone else likes it.
That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
Perhaps you could append something to the time like “That’s Greenwich time, as God intended” or even a reference to us heathens and Ungrateful Colonials. 😀
Added “website”
No discernible difference
A “delete comment” function would be nice.
[ Glares at Chris. ]
I’ll have you know that my silliness is of a high order and greatly enhances the ambience.
(Baka, by the way, is Japanese for foolish or silly. See “Baka bomb” for a bit of curious history.)
A “delete comment” function would be nice.
I agree. It might also be handy to allow more than 15 minutes to edit a comment.
There is no limit to the crazy.
Oh, good Lord. The Barbie Murders by John Varley (1978).
IIRC some of them got a thrill by wearing wigs and merkins in private (pun intended).
pst – The baka was directed at David.
I spent 20 minutes trying to fix a “page width bug” that turned out to be him viewing the page at 110%
I can’t do a delete button for the comments as the delete permissions are set at the user level and can’t be inherited down beyond “editor”. It would mean allowing non-admins delete rights on the database.
If I can find the function that runs the edit post timer I’ll extend it. But as Bender would say
Comment editing is 15 minutes.. If anyone has been a complete
orokamono – then at least they can replace the comment by editing…
If anyone has been a complete orokamono…zura janai katsura da
[ Whines ] Da-vid! Chris is forcing me to learn Japanese!
pst – The baka was directed at David.
Okay. But now I am sad that my silliness was ignored. 😀
I spent 20 minutes trying to fix a “page width bug” that turned out to be him viewing the page at 110%
Ouch. If I had kept a journal of every dumbass mistake I made…
I can’t do a delete button for the comments as the delete permissions are set at the user level and can’t be inherited down beyond “editor”.
[ Slaps forehead. ]
David, grats on the new place, may all your neighbors be silent and well-behaved
Done. That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
I got through one level of grad school streaming BBC 7 radio channel (before it became 4 Extra and went to crap). It was a bit disconcerting when I’d be working very late on something and some old time radio show segued into CeeBeebies childrens’ programming which began around 6 AM ish UK time, but was midnight-ish my time. So I got used to the +6 give or take for converting local to British time.
So – added the Bogroll page – link in the sidebar next to archives and fixed the sidebar display issue on page 3 of the comments for this post.
I think the spoiler tag doesn’t play nice with the theme…so out it goes!
(from the French word “Spolier” –
“il est un spolier, il a vendre le meche!“)
As to the forward and back buttons being the wrong way round – they are if you are laying face down on your back.
On one bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
WTP – thank you, that’s wonderful!
This is going to seem very random, but the style of the poem reminds me of my grandfather (that’s where the “face down on your back” thing came from – I have a strong suspicion that it’s a Spike Milligan line – he was a big “Goons” fan) who loved limericks and rhymes and introduced me to Suess and Roald Dahl. I think gramps is more responsible for my sense of humour than anyone.
He loved to read to me – so “Emil und die Detektive” by Erich Kästner, Stig of the Dump, The Hobbit and the Just William books were amongst the fare.
I’ve just had the strongest memory of sitting on his lap on Sundays listening to “Round the Horne”, probably around 1967, and squealing with delight at the word play from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
Of course youtube has the content :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfMGeuLe_M&ab_channel=FINDADMAGUS%27ComedyChannel
“But now I’ll regally of to bed
To sleep off the nonsense
I’ve just said”
WTP – thank you, that’s wonderful!
That piece, or more precisely bastardized versions of it, was quite popular in our Boy Scout troop back in the day. A similar one was:
For some reason, my father latched onto that one and on long road trips would suddenly blurt it out as a way to break the monotony. When I was 16 and we took our legendary (to us) “big family trip” cross country to California, I took that as a sign it was my turn to drive.
“Emil und die Detektive” by Erich Kästner
! So the black and white German language subtitled movie I saw as a child was based on a novel! I never knew that.