Comments on: Welcome to Club Troppo!

By: wen

wen — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:19:40 +0000

Hi Ken,

Love the new seaside digs!

Can you email me when you get the chance?

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:57:31 +0000

Happy new year, Ken! Jeff - lots of discussion of the Young Labor nasho stuff at various blogs.

By: jeff guy

jeff guy — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:47:02 +0000

Have you seen the SMH article today about Young Labor’s (NSW) policy to reintroduce conscription/national service. Being a 50 something & one who marched & otherwise struggled to overturn 24 years of coalition rule & rid this country of such fascist policies I find it hard to fashion words that would adequately capture the rage I feel.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:33:20 +0000

I haven’t the foggiest idea how or why your blog managed to get deleted from the blogroll. I’m assume it was just an inadvertent casualty of Stephen’s re-organising the blogroll categories and order. I’ll restore it just as soon as I work out how. I’ve been completely off the air for the last week with a broken PC. If Stephen or Nicholas sees this before I manage to work out how to update the blogroll (or even access it), maybe one of them will do it.

Anyway, I’m back on the air now, at least until tomorrow night when we fly to Sydney for 9 days. Internet access will probably again be dodgy for that period, but with any sort of luck Nicholas will keep things on an even keel.

A peaceful and prosperous (if belated) New Year to all Troppo readers!

By: C.L.

C.L. — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:53:25 +0000

Administrator: what was the reason for my link being removed? Don’t care, just interested;)

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:08:12 +0000

AlanDownUnder: http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/feed/ should give you the site feed.

There was a small glitch with the site motto via RSS which I have fixed but it seems OK now. I don’t use RSS a lot so I’m not sure how “feed detection” works — I always just manually subscribe to feeds by pasting in the relevant URI.

By the way, the short explanation of the difference between a URI and URL is that a URL should point somewhere “real”; a URI doesn’t have to.

In other words, all URLs are also URIs, but not vice versa.

Example:
http://www.clubtroppo.com.au is a valid URI and URL.
troppo:entry/2005/12/28 is a valid URI, but not a valid URL.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:19:46 +0000

URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifiers. The WordPress people seem to prefer it to URL. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it.

By: Darlene

Darlene — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:41:22 +0000

Looks nice and is a pretty colour for the gals. Someone pointed that out, but I say that in a good way.

David, do you mean URL, which, I think, is the address of a website?

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:11:19 +0000

It’s Xmas and I’m allowed to be a pedant at this time of the year. Who is URI?

By: AlanDownunder

AlanDownunder — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:47:28 +0000

Is it my RSS plug-in feed detector or is there no RSS feed yet for your home page? I suppose Steve’s getting around to it.

It doesn’t really bother me that your armadillo is now not only exotic but amphibious.

By: Jozef Imrich

Jozef Imrich — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:29:34 +0000

Without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk the greater the faith.
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By: Has anyone seen HOMER PAXTON?

Has anyone seen HOMER PAXTON? — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:05:03 +0000

I only just noticed the pink crab and seashell motif. Very pleasant and cooling too – a bit girlie perhaps, but that’s nice too. Please dont’ change it because I said it was girlie. Please don’t attack me because i said so – I’m not up to it at the moment. I should just shut up and go for a swim.

By: Bring Back EP at LP

Bring Back EP at LP — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:08:11 +0000

CL that is because you are part of the last rites not new right movement!

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:28:53 +0000

If your updating links Ken.

Steve Edwards new home is
http://www.libertarian.org.au/

Todd McKenzie and Murph
http://www.gravett.org/sauce/

Norman Hanscombe
Is still kicking and will be back soon hopefully.

Alan Anderson and James Morrow
http://www.investigatemagazine.com/

Bizarre Science
No longer online.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:30:09 +0000

Is there some pointed reason why I’m the only blogger de-linked at the new site? Pray tell.

By: Stephen Bounds

Stephen Bounds — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:34:48 +0000

Thanks for the positive feedback on the look of the new site.

Two suggestions were too good to pass up — you’ll notice that comment links should now be underlined and have a slightly more obvious shading.

I’ve also updated the permalinks to use the more user-friendly URL scheme suggested by Vee (and fixed the link to After Grog Blog).

By: Cristy

Cristy — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:32:40 +0000

Looks great!

By: week by week

week by week — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:24:01 +0000

congratulations, well done

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:49:29 +0000

Congratulations! Looks great!

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:14:32 +0000

One thing I just noticed from my post above is that links via tags as in ‘WordPress 2.0′ appear the same colour as the rest of the comment text (well, at least on my monitor) and will be easily missed.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:06:57 +0000

Now, after all that fine work (and the site does look good), WordPress 2.0 has just been released. All the best for the New Year!

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:15:29 +0000

Congratulations are due. At long last HTML works in comments.

Howebver, links in comments aren’t marked — perhaps some minor tweaking could be in order,

By: Evil Pundit

Evil Pundit — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:10:05 +0000

If it handles HTML it will be well worth commenting on.

By: Le Driver

Le Driver — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:56:46 +0000

Very classy. You guys sooo owe this Stephen Bounds fellow a beer :).

By: David Tiley

David Tiley — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:43:12 +0000

And the armadillo nose still whiffles! I yam a happy man.

The date on the left is clever. Personally I prefer a fixed width column for the blogtext, but that’s because I have a wide screen.

Good luck with this new avatar.