Journal Journal: Happy Holidays 2008
New JonesBlog update. Happy Holidays 2008
New JonesBlog update. Happy Holidays 2008
New JonesBlog update. Full Moon
New JonesBlog entry on a visit to the Korean DMZ here.
This is a glimpse at an environment that hopefully will be rapidly changing, but with North Korea going through a spasm of Communist retrenching and the uncertainty of Kim Jong Il's health (or even if he is still alive), things in the DMZ appear to be just as tense as they have been for years.
We now abbreviate journals in the firehose... so they are more like slashdot stories with a Read More link to the full text.
The big user facing change this week was structural: historically we had 2 different "skeletons" on Slashdot, but with this refresh we unified to a single one. This change simplifies maintenance for us quite a bit (maintaining the idle section and the firehose views of the same data was a royal pain).
You also will see some changes to the firehose.pl layout. We're playing with the tab layout a bit, moving some menus around and better integrating the core functions into the site chrome. It's a bit buggy atm, so feel free to email me if you see something wonky. We're extinguishing a few minor brush fires but there's no forest fires that we're aware of.
New JonesBlog update. Red Flag
The first real change is that we've changed the meanings of the UI around. The old system is 'Fair' and 'Unfair' and the new system is '+' and '-'. The meanings are subtly different. You are no longer rating individual 'Insightful' or 'Troll' or whatever... you are now stating basically "Is this comment good or bad for you". Personally, since I find very few Score:5 funny comments to be actually really funny (and not just cliche memes) I '-' most of them. You are encouraged to be harsh if you don't actually think something is insightful or funny, call it such. The system encourages more of what you + and less of what you -.
You are also welcome now to do more than 10 m2 per day... however we internally have diminishing returns after 10, so you can do more, but they start to matter less and less.
There will undoubtedly be bugs so feel free to email me or vroom at slashdot if you find them. Probably next week or so we'll move this out to everyone, so your assistance is appreciated.
New JonesBlog update. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
New JonesBlog update. Kyuquot, Canada
Wow, so I guess that I've not updated the Slashdot world with recent blog entries. So, without further ado, here they are:
An update. on a juvenile Western scrub jay
An update. on the C-40c
An update. on a female Brewer's blackbird
An update. on The Man Who Fell To Earth
An update. on EM Reconstruction of Neural Data
An update. on Michael Schoenfeld: Photographer
An update. on the American Crow
An update. on the F-16 Falcon
An update. on the flight from SJC to SLC
An update. on Walking through San Francisco
An update. on a visit to the Bay Area
We also added a thing to 'collapse comments after reading' which I think I might turn of as a default setting soon. This is only usable for subscribers atm as well. But basically, as you navigate through a discussion, it collapses the comments you've read after you move on. This makes it really easy to navigate large discussions without having to scroll over 150 comments you've already read.
we're aware of a number of annoying bugs, but hopefully most of them will be squashed by Pudge for this weeks code refresh. If things are stable, we hope to roll this out for everyone rsn.
also my baby cut his first tooth yesterday. My furniture will never be ungnawed upon again.
New JonesBlog update. C-130 Hercules
New JonesBlog update. POTUS in town
New JonesBlog update. San Antonio, Texas
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