Regular readers will probably be fed up to the back teeth with me talking about coComment. Sorry. You’re gonna have to listen to just a bit more…

One of the drawbacks of coCo (for me at least) has always been that it only tracks comments made by cocommenters. On Bright Meadow, this is about… three of us. Sometimes a few more, but you never get the full picture of the vibrant comments that can happen around here if you are just looking at the coCo page.

With the newest version of coComment, however, they have tinkered and are able to mysteriously track all the comments made on a blog, regardless of whether they are made by a coco-peep or not.

Please take a moment to picture Cas looking very, very excited.

Got that mental image?
There should probably be bouncing and/or some hand clapping involved.
Ok.

Now, the implementation of this frankly made my brain hurt. I could work it out, I have the technology, and I do have a brain lurking somewhere beneath my chestnut locks, but life is just too short.

So, what is a girl to do? Find an appropriate plugin of course. Now, I think I have it all set up properly, but the only way I can be sure is if lots of people leave comments to be tracked.

So… Go forth and comment! That is your challenge, and I sure hope you accept it 😀

p.s.
If you haven’t signed up for coComment yet, do so. It really is rather fun.
Ok. I’ll stop now.
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Happy May Day everyone.

The Crazy Canalman came for a visit this weekend and decided that today, instead of being spent as bank holidays should be lazing around the house, he was going to get me out of bed at 7am and drag me to the Isle of Wight to look at a steam railway he had heard about.

I’ve uploaded a few of the pictures to Flickr – you can have a look at them here, as they are all tagged with “IOW”. Do go look, enjoy the notes, and comment 🙂
As an aside, I’ve run out of groups I can make, and have now exceeded the 200 viewable pictures in my photostream. Is it time I upgraded to the paid account?

Anyway, perhaps one of the best bits of the day was the Morris Dancers. No, I can’t explain them. I heard one couple trying to explain them to their American guests and failing dismally, and I don’t think I’d fair any better. Basically, I’m not sure what purpose they serve myself, but they amused me, so I’m just going to leave you with the things grown men get up to on their days off:

JB and Co have a shiny new blog, Sushimatic about all things Japanese. Go check it out. You owe it to a fellow minion 😉

I was watching this video about sushi and how to eat it, and a thought struck me: with all the bowing that goes on in Japan, do people ever bang heads?

I know, not the most pc ponder I have ever had, but I genuinely thought that. There’s this bit near the end of the video where the two chaps are thanking the sushi-chef, and all three of them bow into the middle… Seriously, they look about a millimetre from bashing skulls.

And what would be the polite thing to do if you did clonk someone on the forehead?

Lord alone knows how I came to be on this chappies link-roll, but I did a quick check of Technorati today and it turns out a new blog is linking to me – Xenoarchaeology.

Now, because I was bored and am, like most bloggers, obsessed with who is linking to me, I went to check it out.

It’s… different. A blog dedicated to xenoarchaeology, which is hardly surprising considering the name of the place. Anyway, I’m intrigued to see how far he get with it. My gut instinct is that there’s only so much that can be written about a subject that doesn’t actually exist, but I would love to be proved wrong.

I’m in the process of having a bit of a spring clean around Bright Meadow. It’s been a while since I mucked about with things, and consequently things have got a bit bloated and dusty.

In need of a tidy up basically. Consequently, if things get even odder than usual with the blog, please bear with me. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

Those of you who read the RSS, I would recommend you poke your nose outside of the reader this once.

We’ve got a new header, I’ve overhauled the sidebar, and the font size has been bumped up slightly. Hopefully it’s a bit more readable now! I hadn’t realised how small it was till I caught myself increasing the font within firefox. Not a good sign when you can’t read your own blog.

What else? Well, the BrightCast is getting its own page, and I’m giving a serious rethink to what’s really required on the other pages. I will also be tackling the display problem experienced in IE with regards the alignment of comments. That and a few other behind the scenes bits that you don’t need to worry your pretty heads about.

If there’s anything else that needs fixing, or that you feel needs changing, let me know, and I promise to at least think about it.

Ok, I have a question for y’all and I hoping that somewhere out there I have a reader who knows the answer:

Is there anyway I can set my Mac so that screenshots automatically get saved to a particular folder, not my desktop? If they can be saved to the folder and name themselves in some form of numerical order automatically, that would be even better.

I’m running OS X 10.4.6 on a slightly elderly PowerBook G4.

At the moment I’m taking screenshots, they are being saved to the desktop, then I am having to manually rename and move them to the “screenshots” folder. This bugs me – the extra steps seem unnecessary, and as a Mac user I am spoilt and don’t like unnecessary steps.

Proviso: Whilst I am computer literate, I am not used to crawling round in the code-guts of my computer. If your solution requires me to boot up Terminal, make sure you give me step-by-step instructions. Detailed step-by-step instructions. And are prepared to calm me down via MSN when it all goes wrong.

And yes, Minionhood awaits if you can make me one happy Cas 😀