Dangling Conversations

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Upgrades

Posted 05 Sep, 2005 at 20:49 by matt in /System | Permanent link

Today, in case anyone cares, is the (first!) anniversary of Dangling Conversations. To celebrate: a couple of new features. Both of them can be noticed on the sidebar.

Firstly, I've hacked up a way to view posts by author. Our names on the side will now link to see the last twenty (or less) posts by a given person. The structure of the URL is this: 

http://www.goldenempires.com/dc/?user=foo

...where foo should of course be the name of the blogger in question. This co-operates with the rest of the archive system, so if you wanted to see, say, all of the posts made by Kael in 2005 concerning culinary matters, you've probably do something like this: 

http://www.goldenempires.com/dc/blosxom.pl/FoodDrink/2005/?user=kael

Easy, right?

(Links to our personal webspaces have been moved to the bottom of our little bios, as you can see. Other DC folks: let me know if you want one of your e-mail addresses to be linked there as well, like I've got mine.)

The second new feature is the "Giving us what-for" box, which (as is probably evident) lists any posts that have picked up comments in the last week, in order from the most-recently-commented-on. I'm working on getting the post names in the proper colours, but perl's not fond of me today for some reason.

Anyhow, that's that for now.

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w00t w00t!
Three cheers to Matt for the work he's put into this! Three more cheers for Brent for graciously hosting!
Posted 2005/9/6 10:01:11 by Kael
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Blue has been known to toss a disc around a field from time to time, and thinks that you should as well. He lives either on the Internet or in Toronto, depending on your perspective. Ask him no questions and there's a good chance he'll tell you no lies. [Site]

Brent hosts the box from which we dangle our conversations, for which we are all eternally grateful. Gratitude is most easily expressed in small bills. Formerly a pawn of the Evil Empire (or maybe a Knight), he has gone over the wall and now toils at a small computer game company in Alberta that no one except for ten million gamers has ever heard of. [Site]

Kael occasionally gets called "Mike"; mostly by people who don't know him. He cooks, he cleans, he maintains Unix servers... what else could you ask for? Currently a slave to the Man, by which we mean retail sales. He has secret plans, but we can't tell you about them. In fact, we've already said too much. [Site]

Lisa is a recreational therapist without a cause. She entertains dreams of ruling over an empire of scrapbooking. Has a well-deserved reputation for enthusiasm, common sense, and tiredness. Ask her about her teapots, but don't touch them.

Matt is just this guy, you know? A mathematician by training and a layabout by inclination; he currently has an Urban Commuter Campus in the American Midwest convinced that they should pay him for plying these trades. The designer and administrator of this site, which means in a sense this is all his fault. [Site | E-mail]

Sky is a salesman during the day. At night he doesn't bother: his words are like unto those of a god, and you can agree or you can be wrong. Lives in the World of Warcraft, with a sattelite office in Toronto. Known to play games on occasion.

Wendy has never run away to join the circus, but pursuing graduate work in medical imaging is perhaps just as good. She didn't choose her current abode on the basis of proximity to a Toronto Public Library branch, but we wouldn't put it past her. Married to one of the other authors here, but you'll have to read the archives to find out which one. [Site]

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