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by jdclyde

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I am having an issue with the subscribe feature in the blogs. I get this message:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
(then the code follows)

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How about an option to get notified if someone comments on OUR blog?

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The next idea is about discussions.

I love the list of recent postings by contacts, but wish I could sort by discussions posted in AND by the contact instead of just by date.

Sometimes I may want to just follow a discussion.

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by jdclyde

between being NEEDY and Being WANTY.

Just happens in this case I am both.

Matter of fact, I came back here to add another thing to my wish list!

by jdclyde

So tell me little girl, what is it YOU would like or need?

How can we make your live more complete (taking into concideration that you are 808 miles away)

(sorry, nothing I can do about gnomes except recommend a hungry cat?)

by itgirli

good-for-nothing, lazy but-lickers. I have two of them already.

I want a pony.

by gadgetgirl

- getting same message as JD.

Also agree with blog comment notification.

As we seem to be spread all over the globe, the time of the message posted on the recent posting list would be a bonus - I seem to get jet lag just trying to work out the time difference!

by jdclyde

Need to have a better separator between the different entries. When they get long and you start paging down, YOU/I will want to be able to see where one post ends and the next one starts.

Right now it is a faint dotted line. Make that puppy stand out!

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Notification on "My Contact" page if they have a blog, and date of last entry.

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Ok, that is all I want (for now)

jd

by itgirli

Here you are, sitting, typing a list of wants and you haven't even made a new entry since May 17th. Sure, you posted to some comments you received, and you have posted comments on other people's blogs, but what have you really blogged lately? Hmm? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm? I thought so.

And I still want a pony!

by jdclyde

Am I suppose to have multiple blogs going or an on-going blog? I thought it was suppose to be more of the second, like a journal of sorts? But then, what do I know?

Teach me oh wise PPP in the ways of bloggism.

Not to mention most of what WOULD have gone in the blog was a better fit for the divorce discussion so I can get told how stupid I am for thinking things BEFORE I am stupid for DOING things. Helps keep me out of trouble. (not to mention jail)

Now I am trying a combination of both. Will just have to see how that goes.

by smorty71

We are working on a blog door (that aggregates and features all blogs) and a Blog Posts from my Contacts. The latter will allow you to see all of the recent blog posts from your contacts. Both of those features should launch this week.

Also, we are planning on adding a "Read my blog" link in the member signature for members who are blogging. This way, if you encounter someone in a discussion thread, you can tell if they have a blog and easily check it out.

sm

by jdclyde

My cats have always been GREAT hunters. Bring daddy home birds, rabbits and squirls. I am sure they must have got a gnome or two in their day!

What pray tell would you do with a pony?

Pretty Pony Princess? Is that the final destination, to be princess? I could see that.

by itgirli

My cats are indoor cats, but I do have a nice planter with cat grass in it that I give them sometimes.

If I had a pony I would ride it on the beach.

I'm going to be either Empress or Goddess, not princess. Princess is too boring and lacks authority.

by jdclyde

sweet innocent me?

A cute face maybe?

A seductive look?

A "come hither" look?

A "I'm gunna smack you" look?

I can just see it now, my PPP riding down the beach into the sunset . . . . .

Me nice to me, a am f[b]R[/b]agile. You break it, you bought it.

by jck

fagile?

oh dear...that can go the wrong direction, jdclyde...EDIT!!!! ;)

by smorty71

Actually, we are working on alert functionality now. It will allow you to get an e-mail (similar to when you subscribe to a thread) when someone comments on your blog.

As for the sorting, I think we can make that change pretty quickly. I'll keep you posted on that.

Thanks for the suggestions,
sm

by jdclyde

question, what is the time frame of the notices for discussions? Is it a set thing? Sometimes they come quickly and others take hours?

Keep us posted!

jd

by itgirli

And that other guy got a mug or something. All my asking and begging and pleading goes ignored, but you start a thread and you get what you want. See? See what women go through. Men don't pay attention to us unless they want something, who cares what a woman wants. All you men get stuff and I get left with nothing. All out in the cold, starving, freezing, with not a mug or T-shirt to keep me warm. If I was a man, I bet I would already have a mug and a T-shirt. And what ever happened to those iPod things? hmm?
Well jdclyde, I hope your happy. Of course you aren't. You're a man. You get all that and yet still you want faster post times. When is it ever enough? Men!
Bah! Good riddance with the lot of you!
Hey! I've got an idea! How about putting a spell checker for posts, so maybe we can have a decent shot at trying to read Oz's typing.
But I'm sure since I'm a girl, no one will notice my good idea. Even if it is buried in the middle of a ridiculously long and scattered post, what difference does that make? Read me! Hear me!
Okay. I'm done.
Well I guess I can't say it's buried in the middle of a long post if I end the post here, because it will be more towards the end of the post than the middle. And Lord knows if you ever say anything that isn't a hundred percent true, that some snot-nosed punk is going to follow your posts and correct every trivial thing.
It's madness, I say! Madness!
okay. really done now.

:)

by stress junkie

Now I'm really sad. Everybody else gets their wish but poor little me. (Do I sound like ITgirli yet?) All I really want is a better way to distinguish which post I'm reading in the list. Changing the color from battleship grey to Day-Glo orange would do the trick. How hard can that be? Four or five keystrokes should do it.

by jdclyde

Changing the color from battleship grey to Day-Glo orange would do the trick.

ROTLMAO!

by jck

went to the niece's wedding on Sunday...whole blog entry about it and the bitch of a sister I have...

I basically spent time with my niece and my parents...avoided my sisters and cousin...and met the groom's family (who were all cool folks).

They even were gonna set me up on a lunch date with a girl who works with the groom's mom, but I had to drive 3 hours back to catch my flight. So now, I have a lunch date with a former model when I go back.

Plus, they're trying to convince me to move there...oh God, the cold...

Do they have good space heaters up north?

Hope that model is warm-blooded... :)

by stress junkie

I get the same thing when I'm looking at these XML thingies. I don't know what it's all about. I'm using the latest Mozilla so it should handle XML. There must be a trick to it but I don't know what it is.

It's not just on TR though. I get this sort of raw look at the XML file on numerous web sites.

by jdclyde

Junkie broke the XML, Junkie broke the XML!

Quick, everyone point and laugh.

by gralfus

XML is only a text file, so clicking on the orange XML button will yield a page of XML code, because browsers aren't geared to interpret XML. The XML button says there is a "newsfeed" on that page.

However, an RSS reader (such as the Sage extension in Firefox) can interpret it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, or something similar to that. There are many RSS readers, some for free, some that cost. With Sage, I open a page that contains the XML button, click on the magnifying glass icon for "Discover Feeds", it looks at the page that is open and connects to whatever feed the XML code is pointing to, provided it was encoded correctly. This is how many "blogs" work.

by stress junkie

I figured it was some sort of code. I didn't know what software would read it. I thought the browser needed a stlye sheet or something.

Thanks for the information.

by jdclyde

No? Didn't think so.

Well, time to go polish my TR mug collection while wearing my TR issue clothing, using my TR issued shamie to get them gleaming just right.

Sometimes it would be easier to not have so many so I wouldn't have to change TR cloths half way through cleaning them all, but oh well. Maybe the next batch will make me happy? Nah!

But being a MAN, I DESERVE it! BWAHAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAA!

by stress junkie

People are really plumbing the depths of my ignorance today. What is ROTLMAO? Even my computer doesn't know.

$ wtf ROTLMAO
Gee... I don't know what ROTLMAO means...
$ wtf ROTL
Gee... I don't know what ROTL means...
$ wtf ROTLM
Gee... I don't know what ROTLM means...
$

by jdclyde

[b]R[/b]olling
[b]O[/b]n
[b]T[/b]he
[b]F[/b]loor
[b]L[/b]aughing
[b]M[/b]y
[b]A[/b]$$
[b]O[/b]ff

by senior program analyst

I dont seem to find any links/tabs/etc like you do for discussions or questions. How do I find out what blogs are out there so i know if i want to make a post? Its probably in plain site but I dont seem to easily find it.

by Jay Garmon

We're debuting that component of the blog system (fingers crossed) later this week. We waited until the blog system was populated before building an aggregator, so as not to build an "empty" display system.

by senior program analyst

I would like to see a time limit on questions of some sort. I get tired of taking time to answer questions when I never see the questions closed or the answers rated. I find it a little rude for people to ask a question and not being considerate enough to let the answerer(s) know if they were any help or not. I imagine a lot of possibly nowledgable people stop bothing with answering with so many questions/answers left hanging around. At least if the question poster doesnt close or rate answers within say a month close the question and share the points between all of the answers. (system could note Closed due to time limit) or some simular comment

by jdclyde

This has been a sore spot for many members for a while now and my understanding is they are working on addressing this.

Till then, I always look at the profile of the poster. Some have a trend of not closing posts, and some have just stumbled on TR, post a question while they are here and never come back.

Not sure the time frame the are looking at, but your idea of timing out is suppose to be one of the fixes.

by jdclyde

ItGirli had been teasing me for getting an acknoledgement that they were going to use my ideas, and so I was just pretending to take credit for your idea to continue to tease ItGirli.

Sorry to cause you distress. Was just joking around. If you read my reply to ItGirli, you will hopefully understand the spirit in which I was posting.

Yours was a great idea, and there was NOTHING wrong with your format.

And yes, I am happy today, just not for causing you distress. It is a good day, that is all. Sun is shining, it is almost 90 and I am going swimming with my boys in two hours! The only thing that could make it better is if I was doing it in ONE hour!

Wish you the best, and try not to take me seriously. I don't.

jd

by stress junkie

I wasn't really angry. Where are those darned emoticons when you need them? The last few weeks the TR forum hasn't been taking my ASCII happy faces. I thought it was funny that I finally had to admit that I don't know everything in contrast to most of my posts.

by jdclyde

I felt bad that my feable attempts at humor had offended you. Was just having that kind of day I guess. I blame the heat.

by jamesrl

BTW, I earned my mug not from the thousands of posts I've made, or the Q&A's I've answered.

I posted something once about a subject that a TR article writer wanted to write about. She contacted me and begged for some of my time. We did a long telephone interview. In return, she promised mugs, shirts, free downloads - anything I wanted.

Those proffered goodies never came.

So I was very glad when I did get a very nice mug. Better late.

But of course, I didn't do the interview for any goodies, or I would have complained. Its the principle of the thing - if you promise, you should deliver.

James

by jdclyde

And of course she knows I haven't gotten anything, but why ruin a good story with facts?

As for your interview, did she at least give you credit in the article?

by Jay Garmon

The much-requested and long delayed Tech Q&A revamp will happen, though our timeline is still a bit fuzzy. In any case, autoclosing questions will be a part of the feature set, as will a limit on the number of questions you can have open at once (we're looking at between 1 and 5).

I know everyone's tired of hearing the "we're working on it" refrain, but, well, we're working on it. Believe me, we want this to get done just as badly as you all do.

by Jay Garmon

You'll notice that the fourth item from the left is Blogs. Click on it and you'll find the long awaited "Blog Door" has now come to pass.

And when you're done, try out "Links." It's quite cool.

by itgirli

I love the way it's all set up. You guys did a great job! Give yourself a pat on the back!

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