Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
November 09, 2005
The Snooze, it is a changin'
(Category: Weblog Stuff )

It's time to shake things up a bit. I've got some plans for the Snooze that I'll be implementing shortly. Can anybody guess what they are? I'll toss some points to the first person to nail them.

UPDATE: Phin guessed the big change. SBD will shortly be a multiple author blog. Yay! 5 points for Phin!

There are a couple of smaller changes that will be occuring, generally in support of the resident additions. I'll give a point each for each of the small ones if anybody guesses them by...um...what's today? Wednesday...all day meeting again...okay, we'll make the deadline Thursday morning my time. Guess either the small, yet important, changes to the blog and/or the identities of the new SBD partners and you'll get points.

The end of the year is coming soon...get those points while you can!

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Something where you post more often.

Posted by: pylorns at November 8, 2005 08:09 AM

More Cow Porn?

Posted by: sompopo at November 8, 2005 08:14 AM

Pylorns - No, nothing that radical.

Sompopo - No dice. Cow porn is a given.

Posted by: Jim at November 8, 2005 08:17 AM

Guest blogging from Bear, Bacon, and Burger?

Posted by: Amy at November 8, 2005 08:41 AM

A gay blog, it's becoming a gay blog!!!
Wait that's already happened.

Group blogging, you're bringing in co-host(s) to blog about bowel movements and other fun bodily functions.

Posted by: phin at November 8, 2005 08:56 AM

A caption contest?

I don't know something to do with the leader board because the year is almost over?

Posted by: Tiffani at November 8, 2005 10:21 AM

You're going to fire the Snooze Crew because they post about as much as you do?

Posted by: Victor at November 8, 2005 12:48 PM

We're getting fired???

Well that totally bites; do we at least get severance pay? Preferably in Oreos or spam (the edible spam not the ever so unsatisfying electronic spam).

Posted by: phin at November 8, 2005 01:00 PM

You're getting a sex change and/or replacing yourself with a female version of yourself?

Posted by: Oorgo at November 8, 2005 03:22 PM

Better syndication - or to post syndication.

Change in software - ie wordpress

Change in snoozepoints...

Automatic trivia...

New layout

leaving mu.nu

Posted by: pylorns at November 8, 2005 04:20 PM

Planning on retiring and giving rights and control to Snoozebutton Dreams to the best blogger? Or greatest fan?

God, I hope I'm wrong. The points wouldn't be worth it.

Posted by: diamond dave at November 8, 2005 04:35 PM

Jezuz H...Jim out with it already. I'm getting cranky. Time to go home.

Posted by: Tiffani at November 8, 2005 04:54 PM

Amy - Unfortunately all three have shown zero interest.

Phin - Dang, that was fast. Yup, the Snooze is engaged in an acquisition and there are going to be some new names on the author line. Can anybody guess who?

Tiffani - There will be some point stuff but that goes under the "stuff Jim should have been doing anyway" category. "Blogging" would also be on that list.

Victor - Hell no. The Crew™ was the life support of this blog for a month or more.

Phin - If the Crew™ was getting fired there would definitely be severerance pay. I'd probably go to the equivalent of 5 weeks normal Crew™ salary.

Oorgo - Nope. A sex change is right out. If I had my own boobs I'd never take my hands off of them. This would preclude blogging of any sort.

Pylorns - nope, nope, nope, nope, nope and nope.

diamond dave - I shall never retire! Not even when I turn all senile and end up typing strings of nonsensea;sdlfkjapsdiofn;lka ajs;ldfd[oiq;lw

Tiffani - Sorry about that. I was in an all day meeting. The secret's out now. Sort of. There's still the "who" to guess. And the minor changes that nobody chanced on.

Posted by: Jim at November 8, 2005 05:33 PM

Might one of the new authors be none other than LW, aka The Brat?

Posted by: diamond dave at November 8, 2005 05:50 PM

Oh yeah, are you changing the name of the blog too?

Posted by: diamond dave at November 8, 2005 08:31 PM

Letting the wife post more often? How about a penis pump?

Posted by: pylorns at November 8, 2005 11:19 PM

You've convinced Dopple-G to cut out the middle man and just blog here directly.

Posted by: Simon at November 9, 2005 01:57 AM

Um, can I just say I don't really care -- as long as I get to "see" more of you?

. . .I really miss you, Jim.

*sniffle*

Posted by: Margi at November 9, 2005 02:47 AM

Dude, ditto the Margi sentiment. If guest blogging is a synonym for "whoowee Bob, I don't have to hardly post no more" then I am coming over to kick your ass, not least because you are suddenly forgetting your roots and talking like Cletus, the Wonder Southerner.

And I mean that in the NICEST way.

Posted by: Helen at November 9, 2005 03:01 AM

diamond dave - Nope, LW is perfectly happy with her own place. Incidentally, there are some pictures up there now of our Indian encounters this past weekend.

diamond dave - When I married one of my expectations was that my new wife would take my name. Blogging's pretty much the same deal. "Snooze Button Dreams" it shall remain.

pylorns - She can post whenever she wants. And she doesn't want a penis pump.

Simon - Unfortunately, except for a very short time quite a ways back, Dopple-G hasn't shown any interest in writing blogs. I say "unfortunately" because he's a decent writer and could be an excellent one if he practiced more. He does still reads 'em though.

Margi - You certainly may say that. Fear not though - this won't be changing my own posting frequency. It will make the dry spells between those posts a bit easier to bear though.

Helen - Not guest blogging, Helen my dear. Multi-author blog. But have no fear - just like I told Margi this move isn't about an excuse for me not to blog. Work, on the other hand, is a very effective excuse for me not to blog. But that's getting better too and the Holidays are coming up so my frequency tickling the keys should be doing better soon.

Posted by: Jim at November 9, 2005 05:27 AM

Hmm, for guest bloggers I'm thinking shank or paul from Id's Cage. Or maybe you've found a why to pull Ilyka out of retirement?

For changes, you're gonna give me the keys to SBD so I can fix the comment rememberer thingy.

Posted by: phin at November 9, 2005 09:56 AM

Well, it sounds as if the Snooze Crew will not lose posting rights, so include me and Phinn in there. I would've guessed the ever-lovely Helen, but her comment sounds like, "No." Same thing with the just-as-lovely Tiffani. Hmmm...

I'll guess your Flying Pig running mate Trey, and I'll also guess Boudicca.

Posted by: Victor at November 9, 2005 10:15 AM

Ah, what the hell. I'll guess the Lovely Ladies of SBD: Tiffani and Helen.

And also...you convinced Rachel Lucas to come out of whatever the heck limbo she's in right now.

Posted by: Victor at November 9, 2005 02:27 PM

Dang! Phin is either intercepting my email or his lucky 8-ball is way more accurate than mine.

Shank and Paul will be the new co-hosts.

PS - I tried the comment remember fix but my comment templates are a bit different from the norm because of the multi-template setup. It wonked the hell out of the site when I tried it.

Posted by: Jim at November 9, 2005 05:53 PM

I love Victor for calling me the "ever lovely". Flattery soooooo works with me.

Posted by: Helen at November 10, 2005 04:12 AM

Shank and Paul sounds way too much like a radio morning show. We're not gonna have to do Hawaiian shirt Friday's or anything, are we? And I'm not really prepared to be "wacky."

Posted by: Paul at November 10, 2005 07:39 AM

"Shank and Paul" sounds more like a prohibited sex act to me.

I can almost guarantee that there will be no wacky and strictly metered amounts of whimsy.

Posted by: Jim at November 10, 2005 08:23 AM

Jim, I had the same problem when I installed movable type, I filled out a support ticket:

Hi,

The reason that your "Remember personal info?" option is not working is likely to be the absence of a reference to the Site JavaScript template in your page. In the default Individual Entry Archive template, the section contains the following:

mt-site.js">

This calls the mt-site.js file to the browser, which contains the code necessary to set and retrieve the cookies used to remember the commenters details.

Additionally, I would recommend that you replace your tag with the following:

This will ensure that if you enable TypeKey authenticated commenting, the necessary sign-in link will be visible, and those logged in to TypeKey greeted by their name.

I hope this gets you pointed in the right direction. If you have any follow-up questions about this, please let me know.

As per our Support Ticket Guidelines, we need to limit each ticket to a single issue, so I will need you to open a new ticket in the Help System for your query regarding categories. If you can provide additional information regarding exactly you wish to achieve there, that would also be helpful. Thanks!

Additionally, in the future, please refrain from copying your templates or other large chunks of code into a ticket. In this case, just a link to one of your entry pages probably would have been sufficient to allow us to spot the problem. If you do wish to share your template code (or we request this), the best way to do so is to copy the information into a text file, upload to your server, and then provide a link to the file. That way we can view any pertinent information while keeping the ticket a readable length.

You can find more information about our Support Ticket Guidelines here:

Posted by: pylorns at November 10, 2005 09:13 AM

Oops, the html screwed up the code..

script type="text/javascript" src="mt-site.js" /script

imagine around it..

Posted by: pylorns at November 10, 2005 09:15 AM

Thanks, pylorns. I'll give that a look!

Posted by: Jim at November 10, 2005 09:32 AM

That should get him some points, no?

That problem has irked me for a long time.

Also, are these points redeemable for Delta Sky Miles? I tried to use mine last week and they had no idea who you were. A fight ensued, and they said something about taking my passport away.

Can you give them a call?

Posted by: Paul at November 10, 2005 10:00 AM

I love Victor for calling me the "ever lovely". Flattery soooooo works with me.

Just stating a fact, ma'am. But now my gf is looking for you :)

Posted by: Victor at November 10, 2005 02:15 PM

Yay the magic eight ball didn't fail me.

It doesn't hurt that Big Brother is watching your every move. Quick look behind you, no the other way.

Too late.

Posted by: phin at November 10, 2005 05:49 PM

Yeah, i've learned more about movable type than i've ever wanted to know by implimenting wetwired...

Posted by: pylorns at November 11, 2005 09:08 AM

BTW, the title is a variation on a line from a Bob Dylan song. Or maybe the title...but you get the idea.

Posted by: Victor at November 11, 2005 10:38 AM

Stealth points for Victor! It should be a single but I'm doubling it for passing the 24 hour+ mark.

Posted by: Jim at November 11, 2005 01:02 PM

Is there an ETA on the new hosts?

Posted by: phin at November 13, 2005 05:39 PM

Will the new hosts be giving away points and can they be bribed with peanutbutter?

Posted by: phin at November 13, 2005 05:57 PM

Yes and Maybe.

Posted by: Jim at November 13, 2005 11:14 PM

Does my comments rememberer thingy work now?

Posted by: Jim at November 13, 2005 11:15 PM

Nope. :(

Posted by: Jim at November 13, 2005 11:15 PM
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