My girls are off out to a fair in town later, and call me old-fashioned but one thing I’ll say to them will be “Don’t talk to strangers”. And yet here you are reading what I’m writing and if it strikes a chord, you may even respond – you’ll be talking to me. Is it from the safety of your anonymity that you do this ? I’m still a stranger no matter how you look at it, regardless of how many of my words you may have read.
This struck me as odd because of what I read last night in various places. On another blog, what was in essence a stupid post was met with a ridiculous ‘fanboy’ response with people trying to out-fanboy each other. What IS all this stuff about ? We will likely not meet 99.9% of the people who read our daily meanderings through life, yet there seems to be a few who devote an inordinate amount of attention to the words of a few. Why ? They aren’t super-human you know, they still have to sit down to crimp one off, so for heaven’s sake just chill out and ask yourself this – “If I was in a cafe when ‘X’ walked in, would I act this way in front of my real-life mates ?”. My money says you would not, so grow up.
In other news ……. minor changes to the Comment page (inspired by, but not copied from Coldforged) and I think it works okay, Contact form repaired (thanks Samantha).
And now 1.5 is out, I’ve gone through my mail and I’m sure I am missing some. So, if I said I would do some WP stuff and you wanted to wait until 1.5 is out and I have not got in touch, nag me.
Boy that post must have really rubbed you up the wrong way if it’s the same one you were talking about below…
Quit it though! Enough of the intrigue already, you’re just teasing now 😉
Hey Mark, I was wondering how you got the smileys to be listed. Are you using the wp-grins plugin?
Lawrence – yup, that’s the plugin. I don’t have it working on the admin side (I’ve not tried) but for this side it’s just the same as it always has been with the function called in comments.php
Gary – it wasn’t just that post on that site 🙂 It was other ‘blogs’ in other areas that have the same sort of effect. Its basically the “A-list wannabes” and their shallowness.
thanks Mark, have it up and running on my site! heh I like the horizontal listing too, is that just done with css?
It’s not actually !
I thought it was – and not wanting to pinch Coldforged’s code even inadvertently, I didn’t look at how he’d done his – I just played.
For mine, I just took the paragraph tags out of the comments file, then used some no-break-spaces to pad it. This is of course a lazy way of doing it – CF has nicely spaced it all with what look like list elements, but this does what I wanted 🙂
Hi
Well do not know if this means anything but i found your blog via a2b website which worked out that you are 14.5km away from me which is about 71 miles now thats scary.
russ
peace out
The blogs I read tend to be those of people ive met. Ive probably found out more about you from your blog than I have from having met you. But then, this is a different medium.