Saturday - September 04, 2004

A Special Note To Our Readers

The past couple of days we’ve been switching over from Movable Type to Expression Engine as the vehicle for powering our blog.

Unless you are brand new to the site, you have noticed quite a change in our appearance which we hope to have back to something resembling our old one soon.  The banner we used to have is cool and we’d like it back.  Getting there and setting our background colors and fonts will take a bit more work.  Allan is the “man from Havana” when it comes to this sort of stuff and he’s been slaving away.  Me?  I poke around, cause things to crash, I screw up settings and ask lots of questions the answering of which, by Allan, of course explains why it is taking him so long to return the site to “near original” condition.

It goes without saying that this would not be possible without so many of you who helped out by contributing towards making it happen.  We’ve thanked you before and want to do so again.  We probably would have transitioned anyway but your contributions made that possibility occur sooner rather than later.

Most importantly though is that you understand our motivation for having made this change. 

So.............................Why did we do it?  Features!!

You’ve probably seen where if you want to make comments to the site you must pre-register.  Fear not as we do not use or sell any of your data nor will we ever give it out to anyone.  Our word is our bond.  The information you provide as a registered user can also be looked at by other users so be careful what you put out there.  But if you are the chatty type or wish to engage in conversation with another user, enter your AIM or Yahoo IM address.  That allows you to take your interaction between one another to another level.

(We’ll be offering dating services soon!  hahahaha)

Registering allows us to filter our the lurking moonbats out there who hijack our site (and piss you all off to no end) with their screeds.  For some reason they think that what we all pay for they have a right to use to post their noxious tripe.

Disagree with us?  Sure!  We expect and invite that.  Use our blog as your own personal soapbox to irritate us ad nauseum.................... you’re outta here!

We can do that now.

We can also moderate all our posts if we want.  This means if we suspect someone is out trolling around even after having registered, we flip a switch and nothing gets on the site unless we say it is OK.  That’s a cool feature.

You’ve probably also noticed we have more options for you, the commenter.  You can be automatically notified if anyone comments to your comment.  No need to go back over and over to see who’s taken your bait (or spit it back out!)

You can also use emoticons to express yourself.  That’s pretty cool.

We also have the ability to set the time between comments to zero.  Under Movable Type if you tried to post too quickly it would not let you and you’d get an error message.  Now you can post comments as fast as your fingers type and your modem sends info.

Another spiffy feature is at the bottom of each post.  We now display the posts category.  So if you are reading a post and the subject is “Exposing Kerry,” just click on that link and you will see all the posts about that category.

So, thanks for sticking with us.  Thanks for donating.  Thanks for participating.

This is Allan and Vilmar signing off.................and we approve this message.   

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 09/04/2004 at 12:36 PM   
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