Comments on: Missing Link Daily

By: gilmae

gilmae — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:59:59 +0000

Drunkard, depressed, paranoid and fucked up from electro convulsive therapy. There’s a lesson here for every man; just don’t get it in the bowl.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:56:13 +0000

Yes, and look what happened to him.

By: gilmae

gilmae — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:20:31 +0000

I bet Hemingway could.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:15:33 +0000

If you think authors have any realistic control over their aim, I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell you…

By: gilmae

gilmae — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:15:00 +0000

skepticlawyer: So? (Hetro) women read Playboy as well, but it sure as hell isn’t aimed at them.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:44:10 +0000

gilmae: Woman listens to metal! Quel horreur!

By: david tiley

david tiley — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:33:08 +0000

That Hilary YouTube is teh mostest!

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:25:52 +0000

It’s a nice extension, tigtog, but it doesn’t allow for floats or for any kind of captioning of images, something as yet unsupported in any simple way by CSS.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:16:16 +0000

Ken, for text mark-up on any blog you visit might I suggest installing a browser extension rather than just a plugin that only works on one blog? For Firefox users there's the very useful Text Formatting Toolbar Extension, which I just used to add in that hyperlink. It also allows text formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough, underline), blockquotes, adding an email link or a webpage link, and inserting an image. Saves heaps of time on coding. (although I find that just inserting [img] tags works fine to add an image to comments in Wordpress, as long as you don't bother with obsolete and deprecated tables.

By: Geoff Honnor

Geoff Honnor — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:59:30 +0000

“Looks like Rudd really IS a social conservative Howard clone.”

There was some doubt?

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:56:16 +0000

"Left- and right-floats are better for you semantically." I have no idea how to do them, except by using the Wordpress image insertion feature, which isn't available from comments. Moreover AFAIK it isn't obviously possible to use captions under images inserted that way, which is why I use tables. Maybe I could ask Jacques to look at creating a plugin to allow captioning with left- and right-floats (after his final exams). I'm sure it would be popular with WP users (assuming one doesn't exist already). Stop Press. It looks like one exists already. See http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-image-captions-plugin/ . I'll ask Jacques to install it when he has time.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:33:32 +0000

There something cultural I reckon. Fitzgerald needs to go as CEO. He has a tendency to piss off past players and they have little to do with the club. Bringing Price, Sterling etc back into the fold won’t win games by itself, but could help with the cultural issues. Also as CEO, he is aware of the issues facing leagues clubs but blind to thinking outside the box to resolve them.

Some fans are blaming Hagan claiming Newy supporters had warned this would happen. Not sure on this but the team is under performing. Tim Smith is a bigger loss than many would think. We have some great juniors and I think some hard decisions need to be made with the playing roster and take a punt on young talent. Hagan seems to have that Smith habit of overlooking better performing young players in favour of middling established stars. Overall, we have the players to be up with the top four. Just puzzling why they struggle.

No internal team dissension I know of. Players all seem to get along well. We have Brisbane next week. This game will make or break Parra’s season.

By: Mungo Amanda

Mungo Amanda — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:28:57 +0000

The Rudd clan is having its own shock horror art censorship drama
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/bunsuitableb-exhibition-rejection-for-nephew-of-pm-rudd/2008/05/22/1211183002969.html

By: gilmae

gilmae — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:21:51 +0000

Impotent and weak snark in the face of that defeat seemed the appropriate response :- )

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:08:14 +0000

It’s not wordpress, Ken, it’s your use of tables to format non-tabular content. Left- and right-floats are better for you semantically.
If symptoms persist, see your Chester.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:00:21 +0000

Shaun

I wonder why Parra is going so badly? Your thoughts? Contrary to gilmae, I don’t actually hate Parra (just Brian Smith) despite what their great sides of the 80s did to Manly. The current side boasts some excellent players but they’re just not putting it together on the paddock. On paper they should be a top 8 side or better. Is it the coaching, internal dissension or what?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:52:56 +0000

Believe me gilmae, I’m well aware of Parra’s record this year. I’m sure you can do better with the NRL club snark.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:30:25 +0000

My eyes. The end-paragraph tags do nothing.

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:10:50 +0000

The Mississippi state flag

text to fill up the space because Wordpress comment formatting is crap and doesn't cope with images.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:57:30 +0000

Have tickets, will be attending, and hope to leave work early enough to catch the second half of the Australia vs. Canada women’s game.

By: Mungo Amanda

Mungo Amanda — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:53:55 +0000

The Ghana flag has a black star on it — hence the “Black Stars”. I will be there too, up the Ghana fan end, should be great.