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Monday, June 25

Tagged And Released

Wickedpinto tagged me:

Each person starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to then report this on their own blog with their 7 things as well as these rules. They then need to tag 7 others and list their names on their blog. They are also asked to leave a comment for each of the tagged, letting them know they have been tagged and to read the blog.

Well, okay then:

I have broken every major bone in my body, with two exceptions.
My favourite sport is parasailing. I do this every Sunday without fail, except when I am actually in traction. (See 1.)
I own a 6-foot teddy bear named Inigo Montoya.
I once ate an entire Thanksgiving turkey without gravy.
I am a tetraploid mutant, having 92 chromosomes. I also have two livers.
Despite that, I am unable to metabolize alcohol. Any alcohol I consume remains permanently in my system, like dioxins do for other people.
When asked to provide random facts about myself, I invariably lie.

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Wednesday, June 20

New Design

I've been working with our graphic designer on a new template design for mee.nu, and this is an example I've worked up:

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1 Are you sure about two-layered navigation with the site-wide bar on top and blog-wide bar below? It looks a bit... frame-ish. The picture going under the top bar seems like an attempt to counter-balance the stackiness and create a more integrated appearance. However, my difficulty is, I don't know what to suggest. Overall, looks pretty good.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, June 20 2007 03:48 AM (9imyF)

2 We pretty much need that full-width bar at the top, for the ad and the mee.nu logo. Below that we (and the users) have a lot more freedom. And if you're a paying user you can do anything you like.

Our designer is working on variations of this, and she's better at it than I am, so she might come up with something better.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 20 2007 03:54 AM (PiXy!)

3 thweet.

I assume the templates are going to be editable CSS so we can change fonts, colors etc?

Posted by: blackflag at Friday, June 22 2007 12:02 AM (Mq5jS)

4 Absolutely.

I'm also coding up a module to automagically crop, mask and filter images so that you can just drop them into the standard template without having to mess about in Photoshop.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 22 2007 02:08 AM (PiXy!)

5 Heck yeah! I want one of them sweet awesome layouts razz

Posted by: NthPower at Saturday, June 23 2007 01:12 AM (PV/4J)

6 What's the skinny on that update scheduled for the 24th we were talking about? Did it cause more problems?

Posted by: Will at Thursday, June 28 2007 01:01 PM (olS40)

7 I've forgotten what I was planning to do on the 24th... I think it was the user groups/forums/multiple authors thingy, in which case it was delayed due to the database bug (and also due to it not being finished).

If that was it, then I've finished coding it and I'm testing it now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 28 2007 09:31 PM (PiXy!)

8 That sounds like it. I'm going to be away from the tubes for the next day and a half, otherwise I'd volunteer to be the guinea pig.

Posted by: Will at Friday, June 29 2007 02:20 AM (SOx9v)

Pixy, that is absolutely an awesome looking design and the variations are exactly what I'm looking for. So with a mu.nu url, (gratis via your more than overwhelming generosity) when will the old munuvians begin to be able to migrate to Minx? I'm waiting with bated breath (but I can only hold it for so long... heh!).

Again, beautimous designs.

Posted by: GM Roper at Sunday, July 01 2007 10:27 PM (S60yG)

10 The migration will start this week. smile

Also this week I'll be working on a theme-builder to let you create designs based on the overall template and layouts demonstrated above. I need to do a bit of messing around with the image-processing library to automatically size, crop, mask and blend your images, but that shouldn't take too much work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, July 02 2007 04:11 PM (PiXy!)

11 OUTSTANDING... I can hold my breath for a week ;-)

Posted by: GM Roper at Monday, July 02 2007 11:27 PM (S60yG)

OUTSTANDING... I can hold my breath for a week ;-)

But I can't seem to get the hand of the smilies wink

Posted by: GM Roper at Monday, July 02 2007 11:28 PM (S60yG)

OUTSTANDING... I can hold my breath for a week ;-)

But I can't seem to get the hand of the smilies

the HANG of the smilies.

Can't type either.

Posted by: GM Roper at Monday, July 02 2007 11:29 PM (S60yG)

14 You're calling it your "graphic designer" now?

Posted by: TallDave at Wednesday, July 11 2007 08:58 AM (r1Ip+)

15 Our theme builder - which lets you create your own layouts based on this design - will be available next week. smile

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 14 2007 02:57 PM (PiXy!)

Pixy, "runescape" is a spammer. (Check that person's home page.)

Also "runescape gold".

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, July 15 2007 12:19 PM (+rSRq)

17 Thanks. Spiked him.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, July 15 2007 06:25 PM (PiXy!)

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Friday, June 15

You Can Has Cheeseburger

mee.nu is live.

The queue forms here.

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They B mvin n 2 ur bucket!!1!

That problem I mentioned about quote marks truncating post titles still seems to be happening. I went back to make a stealth edit to that "novel" post I made and the title changed after the edit. Actually, now that I think about it, I think it's dropping that text when it brings up the edit screen, forcing me to retype the title again before saving.

Also, right after that happened, when I tried to access the post management page, minx puked up a hairball.

It worked on the second try. Do you want me to send the text of the error page?

Posted by: Will at Saturday, June 16 2007 03:26 AM (SOx9v)

That problem I mentioned about quote marks truncating post titles still seems to be happening.

Whoops. I was busy with things blowing up and forgot about that. Will fix.

Also, right after that happened, when I tried to access the post management page, minx puked up a hairball. Do you want me to send the text of the error page?

Yes please!!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 16 2007 03:36 AM (PiXy!)

3 I sent the text in an email. (it turned into a jumbled mess when put in the comment box)

Posted by: Will at Saturday, June 16 2007 04:12 AM (SOx9v)

If we have an betablog, we don't need to register, da?

I maded you a cookie... but I eated it.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, June 16 2007 07:35 AM (VdgKc)

5 Yep. All the mu.nu bloggers are pre-registered.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 16 2007 02:02 PM (PiXy!)

6 Oh, and thanks, Will. It's a known problem, fix is in the works.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 16 2007 02:03 PM (PiXy!)

7 No problem, and thanks for the fixes. Is there going to be some way for we beta free-loaders to turn ads on? A bar at the top really doesn't bother me all that much.

Posted by: Will at Saturday, June 16 2007 03:21 PM (olS40)

8 Quick question... trying to post with text in the "more" window, but when I do, I get a "more" link that doesn't reveal any text. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Monday, June 18 2007 09:38 AM (PyY3O)

9 Never mind - was choking because I hadn't titled the post. Post titled, "more" functioning properly.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Monday, June 18 2007 10:19 AM (PyY3O)

10 And Yes it's gay, I got it from Average gay joe.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at Monday, June 25 2007 09:25 AM (QTv8u)

11 mee.nu may be live, but is Pixy?

xxx ooo Susie

Posted by: Susie at Tuesday, July 03 2007 12:13 AM (GCqUp)

12 I read chizumatic.mee.nu with an RSS reader. At least, I did until (and through) http://chizumatic.mee.nu/links_1.

My feed reader hasn't pulled a single post since then, and I've told it to do so manually. I suspect there's a problem.

Thanks for listening, and sorry if this is the wrong place to put this (in which case, please let me know the right one for future reference)!

Bob P.

Posted by: Bob Price at Tuesday, July 03 2007 11:59 AM (gHP37)

13 Thanks Bob, I'll check that out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, July 03 2007 01:02 PM (ovciR)

14 Hmm. Steven's RSS feed is valid and up to date, but his Atom feed is busted. I'll fix that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, July 03 2007 02:18 PM (PiXy!)

15 Okay, I switched to RSS feed (sorry, should have checked which I used) and all is well.

Posted by: Bob Price at Tuesday, July 03 2007 03:57 PM (gHP37)

16 Test comment. Please pretend I'm not here.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 07 2007 05:58 PM (PiXy!)

17 Looks like your IP hash code got eaten by a grue.

Posted by: Will at Wednesday, July 11 2007 01:35 PM (olS40)

18 I was tinkering with some custom templates and forgot that I changed it from [comment.iphash] to [comment.ip.hash].

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, July 12 2007 12:11 PM (PiXy!)

19 I thought it may have had something to do with the comment editing you've made available here. Are you tryng it out on AI first?

Posted by: Will at Friday, July 13 2007 01:16 AM (olS40)

20 Yep - but it doesn't actually work yet. That should come in this week's update.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, July 13 2007 05:46 AM (PiXy!)

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Ready To Roll

That banner up top is the draft version of our ad-supported site banner. Yeah, it's a bit too busy, particularly on this site; I'll be handing it over to our designer who's working on the new standard templates to produce a nice clean version.

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