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Wednesday, 13 December 2006

Funny: Bishop of Southwark in Crucifix Lane..





Poor man, but I did think the many little ironies in this BBC news story (and vidcast) a couple of days ago were very funny - Dr Tom Butler the Bishop of Southwark, after a no doubt very fine Irish embassy drinks reception, was found behaving in shall we say a rather un-bishoply way in someone else's car in the very aptly named Crucifix Lane, near Southwark Cathedral (see the links for the full details).

He also left behind a briefcase with a novel entitled "End in Tears".

He arrived home bereft of his briefcase and mobile phone. He said he couldn't remember much. Oddly enough...

He reported the matter to the police but they're treating it as a case of lost property rather than a mugging.

And he had been appointed in Southwark mainly to instil discipline in the clergy there!

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Google's Eric Case on Blogger Beta - video interview





If like me you missed it when it first came out last week, you might want to see an interesting and informative video - available on ryanishungry and Freevlog - about what's going on with Blogger Beta, key new features, the background to its development, etc.

This screencast features Eric Case of Team Blogger (who also blogs himself), who deals with developer relations at Google for the Google open source team and Google Web APIs. A lot of the features discussed we Blogger users know about already, like tags or rather labels, the new drag & drop template layouts etc, but it's still interesting.

(Via Google Code Blog, which also points out that developers who want to use the Blogger Data API might want to check out the bloggerDev Google Group. I missed the Blogger Buzz mention, somehow!)

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Monday, 11 December 2006

Blogger Beta: comments wishlist





Dear Team Blogger

Well it looks like my blog will be moving to Blogger Beta in the not too distant. I know you've been working hard on all sorts of nice whizzy features for Beta. But no rest for the diligent - I've been wondering about whether the commenting system on Beta could be improved even further (thanks for the changes so far e.g. the comments feeds!):
  1. UPDATE: hokay, so this is fixed in Beta, no longer Beta I should say - yay, and thank you Blogger Team!If I'm adding a comment to my own blog to reply to others' comments, and I'm logged in so you know it's me, please please could you fix it so I don't have to do the word verification CAPTCHA? (I sometimes type type the letters all wrong and have to redo it, my poor lil fingers have been working a lot lately and need a rest, plus it sure ain't stopping the spambots, just me!)
  2. Which reminds me, yet again, please build in an anti-comment spam thingy? I'm getting more spam comments than legit ones.
  3. And how about enabling bulk delete of comments (yes, including "forever") by ticking a checkbox against 'em in a list that I can call up? Say a list of all comments on a particular post, or a list of all comments (on any posts) made since a particular date, or both? Yes, it's those spam comments again.
  4. Please fix the unresizable window for comments popups at some point too? - if you've a chance...
  5. I suspect enabling editing of comments in Beta won't be on the cards (it probably wasn't even for classic Blogger, except that Kirk discovered a loophole which now seems closed). But what about giving the commenter a 60 second (or whatever) window to edit their comment after they've posted it, in case they then picked up a typo or wanted to rephrase something they said?
Yep. You can guess what I've spent all of this evening doing. Deleting comment spam. And, also, finally, finally, replying to my backlog of old comments (believe it or not, Commenting Day has arrived!). Better late than never, right?

All except the comments on my LG Chocolate phone posts, that is. Tons of 'em, mostly on the same sort of thing, I can't quite face them right now. I mean to do them all at once when I have a spare day, it'll take me at least that long. So please be patient if you've left a Chocolate question in a comment.

Ah well, onwards!

Yours etc
Imp.

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