And while you're making changes, how about taking splorp.cgi out behind the woodshed and beating its ass for a while?

I can't do anything about that. That's all the infrastructure of the mu.nu posting/commenting system. I can only make changes to my template.

Good point Reo.

Way to go, Tanker, you tell 'em!

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Well, what the hell's the point of being a famous and influential blogger, if you can't crack a few skulls in the I.T. department every now and then?

They must FEAR you, or they'll never respect you!

Due to your strong femine side, Ace, it'ssometimes hard to tell you and Laura apart.

I'm the one with the big jugs.

I'm the one with the big jugs.

Have you ever seen Ace and bbeck in the same place at the same time?

You mean those are real people? I thought they were just other schizophrenic personalities, set loose every once in a while to spice up the comments and beef up the hit counts.

/sarc

I'm with the brother above. I thought they were symptoms of schizophrenia or else you would have hit us up for money to share with them. You know, spread that crazy blog-wealth around some.

What's a cob logger?

I'll take "The rapists" for Two Hundred, Trebeck.

Its a compliment if people think Ace wrote one of my posts.
Doc and Harry seem relatively ego-free as well.

But Tanker probably makes a series of two-inch long razor cuts on his forearm everytime somebody calls him Ace.
He's wound a little tighter than average.

Its a compliment if people think Ace wrote one of my posts.

Oooh, way to suck up, LW!! Putting a little distance between you and the other cobloggers, eh?

What's a cob logger?

Don't know. But it sounds dirty.

But Tanker probably makes a series of two-inch long razor cuts on his forearm everytime somebody calls him Ace.

Then maybe he shd start his posts with EXCLUSIVE FROM TANKER or TANKER*TANKER*TANKER* That way, we'll know to skip right over it. Just kidding. It embarrsses me when I attributed someone's writing to someone else. But, that is mighty small writing at the very bottom, so do forgive us.

Out of curiousity, Ace, what're the other minor changes you're thinking of making?

the big one is a three-column format, because Pajamas Media insists on having their ads at the top of a column.

So blogads on one side and PM ads on the other. And, actually, more ads than that.

And the sidebar will be split so there's most recent comments and posts on one side and the blogroll on the other.

And then cleaning up some minor stuff, like the fact that when you do a link in a comment it comes out in a bigger font than the normal font.

Oh:

And a byline for the cobloggers underneath the headline, and putting up your email addresses in the sidebar, too.

Actually, I could do that last one, but I want it to be a graphic, so that you don't get spammed to hell.

like the fact that when you do a link in a comment it comes out in a bigger font than the normal font.

Never noticed that. Interesting.

I tell you, a small thing I really like bout the site, is the 'continue reading' happens automatically when clicked instead of (I'm assuming) taking the time to go back to the server and download it. Just makes it easier.

I think it's been mentioned before, but I really like the way 'Wizbang' has the same feature with their comments (I guess I'm assuming they're loaded auto when you open page, but hide from you until you click) Just something to consider.

I have a small suggestion. Could you ask the Web Diva to put in an extra line break or two between posts? As it reads on my screen, there's the same amount of space between the byline of one post and the title of the next as there is between that title and the post's body text that follows.

With 5 bloggers, there are days when you have like 20 posts, and so if you want to stay current, you have to scroll down. If there were more white space between the posts, it would be a lot easier to find the one you're looking for.

I have a request for a redesign: cut the number of stories on the front page down, and move the sidebar to the right. I occasionally read the site from a Palm, and it takes like 200K before you get to the actual update. The full page rarely loads all the way--it busts out of the memory allocation for Blazer on a Tungsten E2.

(If RSS wasn't ass-backward and actually stood for "really simple syndication" instead of "retarded short summaries", it would be more useful for things like this.)