May 12
Hm. Trying this new look out. It’s kind of antiquey, sorta Victorianish of not as Steampunky as I wanted. Also I fear it’s a bit too busy. It has all these “widgets,” whatever they are.
So. Okay? Too busy? Crashes your browser? (In which case, you can’t tell me can you…)
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May 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Victorianish, Queenslandish, New South Walesish. It is different.
So. Okay? So far. Too busy? Again, it is different. Crashes your browser? Not so far.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thanks. Looking for something a tad cleaner, though — though this one is pretty.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Ah! Very Dickensian format. I half expect Bill Sikes to grab the mouse out of my hand and smash it with an empty gin bottle.
Thanks for getting me logged in, Andrea!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
My pleasure, Paco!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I like it, Andrea.
Are you the Administrix here? Do you use the same persuasive methods as you used over at timblair.net (vale)?
Oops, sorry, thinking aloud there. Ahem. Shouldn’t say that… but I hit send before I could delete it, of course…
May 12th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Well, this is my own blog, so I guess I do administer myself. And yes, I have the same commenting policy — in fact, it’s even more dissent-crushingly evil. Since first comments of new users are moderated, I can get rid of trolls before they appear in the thread. Since we all know that trolls really get off on having as many eyeballs read their spew as possible, they tend to quickly slither back under their rocks when they realize that they won’t be so served here.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Wunderbar!
May 12th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Or you could arrange a special troll-squishing evening, just for the fun of all, of course. Mind you, we have plenty of opportunity for that at Tim’s commercial site.
I like the new decor, Andrea. While I have no clue about this steampunk malarkey, anything late Imperial (Victorian or Edwardian) is good, it was a civilised and refined era, the last time the world was fully globalised – we are not up to 1914 levels of globalisation just yet.
And gentleman’s clothes really were gentleman’s clothes back then. With the global cooling trend now well underway, I hope that cloaks etc will be making a comeback.
MarkL
canberra
May 13th, 2008 at 12:10 am
are widgets contagious?
May 13th, 2008 at 1:01 am
I likes it.
I really like the layout of the comment blocks. The prominent name at the top of each comment makes it harder for me to get cornfuzeled on who said what.
Now, how abouts some edity stuffs, a preview and a little quote gizmo?
May 13th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Feels as if I’ve entered the saloon in a Western movie.
Yep. The doors just swung to behind me.
Can I be Miss Kitty, please?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:24 am
*John Wayne voice on*
“Right purdy spread, Ma’am.”
May 13th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Pedro,
I’ll be Lily von Schtupp.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I wanna be Judge Roy Bean.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:46 am
oooh Roy!
Is that a gun in your pocket?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Hi y’all. Just a testing comment to Tim Blair’s (or is it ex-Tim Blair’s) newish blog. Have been following his blog for a long time with awe. You guys rock!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:37 am
I like the feel of the new site. It compliments my slow combustion fire nicely. But I do feel that I should be having a Sherry as opposed to a Scotch.
And I keep humming the theme from Cheers
Sometimes you want to go…
May 13th, 2008 at 5:44 am
where everybody knows your naaaame.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:12 am
So True Pogria. It’s great to see the old familiar names.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I like it.
Kinda goes with the wood burning stove I’ve got burning right now to keep the house warm.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:19 am
very classy – lurve it!
May 13th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Same here Skeeter. Canberra… is like that.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Same here skeeter.
I’ve also two sourdough’s baking in the oven
mmmmm, can you smell them?
Irobot,
I can see you in your wingback chair!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Yes and it’s so comfortable. The next log has just caught alight and the flame is rather hypnotic. Kind of like watching fish in a tank without the mess of having to remove those swimming upside down.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hi guys,
just came in off the live blogsheep transporter. Phew! Pity Miranda had to be tipped over the side as part of the “crossing the line” celebrations, but she certainly had crossed the line once too often.
Lots of friends here already, I see.
Just recovering also from the searingly, rivetingly exciting budget speech by Wayne Swan. More goose than swan, unfortunately.
Red Kerry gave him a good run, then went nasty with shadow treasurer, as you’d expect.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Irobot,
oh dear!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Agree with Grimmy, not for the first time – commenter name at the top, nice layout, comfortable. Preview would be a plus.
No woodburners for us in May – though it cooled down nicely to the 50’s overnight…family in Montana got snow over the weekend. Better them than me.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:31 am
It’s nice, except that on my 1280×800 laptop I can only see about four comments at a time. And using all that paper can’t be good for the environment.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Andrea, are we able to link to stuff?
My son found a hilarious vid I wanted to show Grimmy.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Great minds think alike and fools never differ or so my grandmother used to say.. you can take your pick or take neither. I just put another two logs on the wood burning stove – more CO2 and let’s keep the place warm! It’s getting a little chilly in Sydney tonight.
Andrea – I like the decor here though this scrolling manuscript only occupies about a third of my wide monitor. And can we customise the time? I guess it’s set on US mountain time or something like that but local time for me would be nice.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
A whitlam budget and a whitlam feel to a blog lay out all in one night wow.
like the layout much more than the budget though.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Another thing I like about the parchment effect is that it suggests a pardon, delivered at the last minute at the foot of the gallows, giving new life to the condemned Blairites.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Kae, hope you’re here
Thanks for your nice comment here yesterday!
Must say Tim’s moderators are way faster than Andrew Bolt’s – who pack up and go home before midnight
May 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I like it very much. But I love the Victorian look.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am
So… should we listen to the appropriate piano music from those old silent Western movies while reading here?
May 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Pixilated retro-Victorian fussiness, with widgets. Cool.
My only suggestion would be to add colour – sepia is the province of faux-nostalgia and adverts claiming the MegaGiganto Corp. did to your ancestors what it’s doing to you, and they loved it.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Hi aussiemagpie
email me so we don’t lose touch
May 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
I love the new look, Andrea! And because of it I am going to start looking into Steampunk. It sounds like it combines the best of everything.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
#35 Patrick Chester – I like the idea of piano music like the old silent westerns…decor here brings to my mind a saloon in Dodson Montana more than it makes me think of a parlour in London…must be my deprived upbringing.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I want to offer up a suggestion for consideration.
I suggest this place be officially designated as a “safe house” refuge and community center for the Blairite evacuees, and all other like minded souls.
And, for feeds we add a list of newsies and msmers that are decent folk, like our Mr. Tim.
I’d add Jules Crittenden to that list. He’s a Blairite himself, as well as a decent bloke. And I know he’d welcome and appreciate any and all blairite type commentary at his site. He even tried to talk me into bringing ol’ Doppelganger over for a party.
So, we can find places where we can fight the good fight, even if we have to self muzzle or half chomp a tongue, then come here and really lay it out.
Link to the original post in the comments and we can all chip in on our views of the whatsits and whosits.
That way, we turn the whole innernets into our own guest poster feed.
How’s that fer an idee?
May 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
How about starting up a new forum, rather than a blog? That way there could be many and muches of areas to post interesting articles links and fire up discussion threads all divided by general topics.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I feel like I’m experiencing withdrawal symptoms. I used to check in on Tim’s blog early each morning Sydney time usually between 5 and 6 am. There would always be comments because of the world wide community. Now, the Tele’s blog has nothing – the moderator is probably still in bed … An empty vacuous space seems to have entered my world …
May 13th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hey, y’all … just checking in, first comment and all; nice accommodations, Andrea, and thanks for letting us lowlifes in too. We’ll try to keep it clean, honest.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Wand: I think that’s called “blogistentialism”.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Hi Grimmy,
Here’s that vid I wanted to show you. I hope you laugh as hard as I did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IFjjVYDpE
Hello Mr Paco.
I feel I should address you as Mr Paco while we’re in this Victorian parlour.
Would you like me to pour?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
MarkL and Sharon, some links:Steampunk Workshop check out the monitor and keyboard, The Steampunk Home weblog, Girl Genius webcomic, Real Victorian Steam – Crosness pumping engine, London
There. Fixed. Andrea H.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Gaaah, try again on the last three
Steampunk Home weblog
Girl Genius webcomic
Real Victorian Steam – Crosness pumping station, London
May 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hello all.
I’ll have a sasspariila iff’n you don’t mind.
I could get comfortable in a saloon.
All we need now is a gimp fer a deputy and we’re set.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Thank you, Lady Pogs, I’ll have just a splash of Darjeeling, if you’ve any at hand, but only if it was harvested during a full moon from the south slope. You’re sure? Excellent. You know, you really have to be careful with these tea wallahs. They’re likely to try and fob off some inferior-grade oolong if you don’t watch out.
Mmm…Delicious. Do you have any Twinkies to go with this?
May 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Twinkies Mr Paco!
You shame yourself. You’ve been in the Colonies far too long. Gathering a fortune for oneself in the Colonies is an admirable occupation for a young man with potential however, it does tend to roughen the edges somewhat.
You really must come home more often young man.
I have prepared some lovely scones with which you may have some of my famous Raspberry jam and the divine Clotted cream from Cornwall which was delivered just this past hour.
I have also made some delightful cucumber and cress sandwiches.
Yes, dear boy, I have Darjeeling. Did you think I would forget? I myself am particularly partial to Earl Grey.
There now, would you like lemon, or cream?
May 13th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Old Grouch – THANK YOU!! Am looking forward to exploring it!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
More on steampunk: I began reading Girl Genius not too long ago…cant remember the reason that pulled me away from it. Was loving it.
Bookmarked, all!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Pssst! Paco! Getcha deep-fried Mars-bars, rat cheer!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
So here we all are.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Sasperilla? darjeeling?
I want some of that new style beer they’s selling down on the docks. You know the stuff what’s got made from charred grains.
A good beer should stain a man’s teeth.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Pog:
LOL! Nice find.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Howdy, y’all. Good to see everyone again.
That was a MIGHTY long ride from Tim’s place. Old Paint didn’t take much to swimmin’ cross the Pacific.
I agree this blog should be declared an offical shelter for Blair evacuees. Perhaps there’s a FEMA grant in there somewhere for you, Andrea?
May 14th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Glad you liked it Grimmy, my son will be stoked.
Sand Master Game Callers, now with TURBANISING TECHNOLOGY Rule!!!!
May 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I like this look!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Ooh! I like this. It kinda fits with the “Twisted Spinster” aspect…
Off topic:
I have to say I really, really don’t like the comments thingy at Tim’s shiny new digs. I tried to post three comments and only one made it through, and it wasn’t the first one.
Then again, if I don’t bother with the comments, I don’t have to read the stale troll droppings…
May 15th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Oh, Girl Genius – I thought that was just my own secret vice.
By the way, the new look is really good.