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by jdclyde 2 views

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Trying to get plugged in again. Been quite a while since I have been on TR and was disappointed to have not been able to make The Gathering this year (would have been able to make it before the reschedule, maybe next year.)

Kind of curious what the feel of the neighborhood is like, and how many of the old friends are still around.

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by hal 9000

And what makes you think your welcome here?

Once upon a time you where most defiantly welcome here but things have really changed mate. ;)

OH and because I'm the new [b]Improved[/b] Hal 9000 here is the link for what does what. :p

http://www.techrepublic .com/blog/tr-out-loud/express-yourself-with-new-emoticons-in-the-community-forums/302

You'll notice a space in the URL because that's the only way to post them now and have your post appear. :0

Col 0:-)

by charliespencer

I don't have any problems with intact URLs. Heck, I posted two this morning. After reading your comment above, I went back and checked; they're still there.

by hal 9000

But earlier today I did try to post something with a copy of a M$ EULA and it wouldn't post.

Every URL I try to post just doesn't appear or if I edit the Post after making it, it appears but within a hour it's gone completely.

I must be on a Black List or something then. They probably did it after I started acting [b]NICE.[/b] :^0

Col

by jdclyde

just couldn't seem to find anything and didn't have the time to re-figure it out. Kind of reminded me of the move to Office07

by hal 9000

I meant that I was on the Black List of TR and my Posts would be sent straight to the Bit Bucket if I posted any Links. :^0

However 24 Hours ago when I logged in the site had been set back several hours looks like they recovered from a Incremental Backup after something nasty happened. ;)

Col

by ansugisalas

They're *FINALLY* on to you? ;)

But yeah, they must have given up on punishing you when it became clear that you'd simply retaliate, and have oodles of fun doing it :D

by hal 9000

I've stopped ejecting people out Air Locks. It's much more fun sucking them through the ship and smashing them against Bulkheads, though to be perfectly honest it's far more messy. :0

I just love watching them stagger to their feet wondering [b]What the Hell Just Happened[/b] before I open another air lock at the other end of the ship and have all but programed Internal Air Tight Doors shut to suck them back the way that they have just come from. :p

I've even managed to suck 1 person who shall remain nameless to every section of the ship and mash her up so badly that she looks like the little Blue Smurf that I have named her after. :^0

See how nice I've got. [Maniacal Laughter]

Col 0:-)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

a mess of your Contacts missing. About half mine didn't make it through the recent 'upgrade'.

by charliespencer

Y'all realize it was a year ago last week? Are there usually ceremonies on the anniversary of a major tragedy?

by hal 9000

It's showing here under IE8 ands that hardly works at all on the net now.

OH and don't ask why I'm using Infernal Exploder 8 it's too painful to think about. ;)

Col 0:-)

by av .

How have you been, oh man of the longest post ever on TR? How's things?

AV

by jdclyde

are we ALLOWED to mention EL anymore? :)

life has been a lot of ups and downs.
doing the job search thing AGAIN, and recently got engaged.
ThingOne and ThingTwo are attending college and I am attending classes myself again.

Hope life has been well for you.

by charliespencer

I don't know what inspired him. He's been incommunicado most of the time since last year's New World Order, popping in and out maybe once a month at most. Oz_Media left in a huff over the format change. No one has heard from Jaqui in several months that I know of; there were questions about his health. If you don't already know, santeewelding passed away a few weeks ago.

by av .

Thats good to hear. I can't believe your kids are all grown up. Where does the time go?

I've just been working a lot the past few years, learning a lot about server virtualization and the cloud. Life has generally been good, but I'm starting to face the fact that after 25+ years in IT, retirement is creeping up on me. At least semi-retirement.

AV

by jdclyde

I had stopped back in then too, but life was a little busy at the time and wasn't able to stay and play. who knows about now?

by thechas

Hi,
I'm still around. But, don't visit more than once or twice a week.

Just too many other things going on that require my attention.

My best to all.

Chas

by ansugisalas

Yours doesn't show, HAL's does. Using Opera.
Maybe the old shift-F5?

Nope. Nothing. Oddness abounds here now, though.

by cmiller5400

Welcome Back!!! Nice to see more of the "beginners" group online every now and then. Far too many of us who were here almost from the start ran off after the redesign or for one reason or another :(

by jamesrl

I haven't missed your friendship, since we converse on FB.

I think perhaps TR misses your inputs sometimes.

by jdclyde

although I think I am going to try to refrain from the political side for a bit. Don't feel like having people talk AT ME about politics.

by jdclyde

since it requires text to create an emoticon, does that make your statement invalid? :p

by jdclyde

I am at a junction in my life where I am looking at possibly walking away from IT, once and for all. Have a job I am applying for that will give me comparable pay without the comparable built-in obsolescence. I am tired of being looked at by bean counters as a liability on the ledger instead of an asset. Just depends on what comes through first.

by av .

If you can transition into something else with comparable pay, even better. Being older in the IT field is like the kiss of death. No one wants to hire you because they don't want to pay you for your experience and they think you're just an old dog that can't learn new tricks.

Now that I'm over 55, I see all the good projects going to my younger counterpart and I get whatever else is left. Oh well. Such is life in the IT world.

AV

by jdclyde

:p :) B-) :D

will see how many I can remember without having to look at the list!

by jdclyde

Used IE, FF, and Chrome.

Tried from four different systems, two WinXP and two Win7.

If I go into my profile, it DOES show up there.

Is Tammy going to yell if I ask WTF? B-)

by maryweilage

Welcome back, jd!

I'm sorry to read that your avatar isn't showing in your discussion posts. I haven't seen a bug about this issue, but I'll look into it and get back to you when I get an update.

Thanks,
Mary Weilage

by Tammy.Cavadias

Are you still having the gravatar issue? I am seeing it on my end :-)

-Tammy [_]3

PS: I have been out due to my daughter having a baby this past Thursday

by jamesrl

You can't have a daughter who has a baby.....because you are younger than me.....significantly......

by hal 9000

And even that is a very poor representation of what it once used to be TR Out Loud on Video. ;)

http://www.techrepublic .com/forum/discussions/102-376059

Even Mae & her shovel haven't been around lately.

Col ;)

by charliespencer

The last several months have been some of the slowest I remember around here. On some weeks you can lead Sonja's Top 5 Posters list with less than 70 posts. Maybe it's due to the overhaul / New World Order. Maybe it's the economy. Maybe it's just cyclical.

Me, I blame the global warming conspiracy and the Obama administration.

by michael jay

you got spam, look at the top 100, top 17 are spammers and some posting now, you just cannot see most of the posts as they are getting nuked before getting to the board.

Go Tammy.

by hal 9000

Older Mycroft and W2K Techman Dieing.

I think both of them died after JD stopped visiting.

Col

by jdclyde

but I was glad to have gotten to know them both even closer on that "other" website in some direct communication and with a small group of TR peers.

by tigger_two

I cannot brain today... or yesterday or the day before or...

Good to "see" you here. Wish I had been around when you showed up.

(((hugs))) JD. Hope to "see" you here more!

by jdclyde

good to be seen! B-)

coming and going, trying to find my way around again. sure we will cross paths again soon!

by ansugisalas

In the other sense... I think your absence largely coincides with my presence here. So yeah, near-total miss :D

by ansugisalas

I've - relatively speaking - stopped coming around here, now.
Then again, I think I was overdoing it for a while, there :^O
Dammit! Col, what am I doing wrong with the Laffy face? ;)

by hal 9000

I was sent to a C Net Screen telling me [b]You Broke the Internet.[/b] Nice to know at least one of the Site Developers there has a sense of Humour.

Then at another time I was told that I had to confirm my E Mail Address before I could post so apparently the HAL Account is a [b]New One[/b] and has yet to be Activated. :^0

Needles to say logging out and back in cured the mess, but when I have XP running again I'll upload the Screen Dumps to Photobucket and post links. ;)

Col

by hal 9000

You Broke the Internet

http://i271.photobucket .com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/CNetWhoopsyoubroketheInternet.jpg

How to Activate your TR Account

http://i271.photobucket .com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/CNetActivateyourTRAccount.jpg

And when I went to post this I was told that I need to Activate My TR Account that was opened in 2002. Seems that I'm really slack and never do as I'm told. :^0

Col

by ansugisalas

It was so O-like in the "Express yourself..." list that I never even thought of 0... me be dumb! :^0

by Tammy.Cavadias

Would you mind taking a screenshot and sending it to me, so I can attach?

What I see on my end looks like you on the beach? maybe on a pier?

-Tammy [_]3

by hal 9000

Doesn't it make you feel old?

Yep I know the Ultimate Moderator [b]SWMBO[/b] will make me apologies for the Grandma bit but I can not help myself. :^0

Col

by jamesrl

My mom had 5 boys.
Her middle brother had 5 boys
Her youngest brother had a girl and a boy.
Guess who was spoiled by her aunt and grandmother.

I remind her of this when I see her which is not often enough.

by hal 9000

That the [b]"Correct Term"[/b] varies between different cultures. :0

I know several people who prefer Nanna as well. My Nephews are in that group.

Though with all Harley Owners it's most Defiantly Grandma as Harley Owners like to feel Impotent or should that read Important? With Harley Owners the terms are piratically interchangeable. :^0

Now I best hide unless [b]SWMBO[/b] catches me posting something like that. ;)

Col

by ansugisalas

except we do not invoke the beast!

(Well, actually, it'd be "mummo", but my mother in law is the Baba Yaga)

by hal 9000

So we have all possible names to call Taminkins?

That should drive her over the edge and give her an [b]Age Complex[/b] for a few hours till she decides to get even with the nasty person who's responsible. ;)

Col

by ansugisalas

now, after showing up smelling of magic potion too many times, both her and Koschei the Unstable are banished to the thrice-ninth realm forever.

Funny how some people won't take a warning seriously.

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