Disqus - Latest Comments for eyespi20

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:02:07 -0000

Daniel -- I'm still ready and eager to test your Wordpress import engine.

Thanks!

Margaret

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:52:14 -0000

Just a reminder that there are a bunch of us waiting to test your import method. It's reallly REALLY important to us to be able to control and own our own data. Please, try to help us. We WANT to use Disqus, but until you have a way for us to import our comments into Word press, we just can't.

Thanks so much!

Margaret

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:15:05 -0000

Just a reminder that I am willing to test whatever you have come up with for importing my comments back into my wordpress database.

Thanks!

Just for the record -- I think this is a huge deal for WP users as that's the main reason I stopped using disqus on my blog -- I was just too uncomfortable with *my* data being off site. I had the unfortunate experience with Wordpress.com eating a 3 year old blog of mine for TOS violations -- right or wrong on their part -- I lost 100% of my original writings. So perhaps you can understand my paranoia surrounding allowing a free service to hold and control my data.

Margaret

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:15:04 -0000

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:05 -0000

Well, as soon as you have something even in a beta phase, I'm willing to be a guinea pig.

Margaret

Re: How to import back into WP

eyespi20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:17:48 -0000

Any progress on this?

Re: Disqus - the non-stupid version

eyespi20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:54:17 -0000

Well, yes, you CAN export your comments, but if you're an independent WordPress blog, then you CAN'T import them back in as the Wordpress RSS import tool only imports POSTS, not comments and my hours long search for a tool to do this has proven to be fruitless.

If you know of a way to import them back into Wordpress, then I'll be thrilled to read about it.

I like Disqus, it's easy to use and hasn't put off any commentators, but I'm truly uncomfortable with my data being out of my control. Also, as others have pointed out elsewhere, you cannot edit a comment for things you wouldn't want, only delete it entirely. That's a no-flyer with me.

It's for those reasons that I've made the decision to deactivate it on my blog.

Re: Trivial Pursuit

eyespi20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:05:04 -0000

Working on it!

M

Re: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

eyespi20 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:21:13 -0000

I can certainly understand and respect that decision on your part, Sailor. I know my family has been scattered to the 4 winds for many years thanks to members being in the military, etc, so having a centralized place to "gather" even if only virtually, can keep families together and in touch.

I maintain a blog that is solely for my family and certain close friends and there we manage to stay up to date with what is going on with each other. Even my 85 year old mother writes comments on the blog!

M

Re: Trivial Pursuit

eyespi20 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:01:05 -0000

Of course I have photos of the dogs!

What kind of mommy would I be without photos of my babies????

M

Re: Trivial Pursuit

eyespi20 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:43:04 -0000

Yes, we have a son and grandchildren in Ohio right on the Ohio river. Thankfully, they are OK at this time, but if the rain doesn't let up, Chris' store might be flooded.

Hope your friends are OK.

M

Re: Trivial Pursuit

eyespi20 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:37:03 -0000

Mr. Pappagiorgio, Well, *they* say that Nadal is the greatest clay court player of all time and that it's just Federer's bad luck to be the best all-surface player at the same time as there is such a fantastic clay court aficionado in the game. Since tennis seems to be a young person's game, it doesn't help that Nadal is younger than Federer.

Basketball is not my game, so I'll leave the aspirations of Celtic vs. Lakers fans to the masses.

Gas pricing is going to be a cross to bear for some time to come. I don't think anything WE do is going to change what they are and what they will be. Either some inventor is going to have to come up with a totally different fuel to power transportation with that cars, trucks and planes can easily be transitioned over to or a previously undiscovered field of it in the free world will have to come to light. For the environment's sake, I hope for the first option, but for my wallet's sake will take either :wry grin:

M

Re: Dates, Dates and More Dates

eyespi20 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:34:02 -0000

Kelly - LazyDBA has been a god-send over the past few months. You can search their archives for past stuff. Lots of really smart guys and gals there who are very generous with their time and talents.

No, Oracle DBA's generally look down their noses at SQL DBA's and sometimes it's vice versa as well. The LazyDBA group has both a SQL Server group and an Oracle group so you might be able to sweeten him up a bit by passing on this great resource.

M

Re: Dates, Dates and More Dates

eyespi20 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:15:04 -0000

Ha! Ha! Lee -- I'm grey headed, so yes, it'll do things to your hair!

M

Re: Dates, Dates and More Dates

eyespi20 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:09:03 -0000

Ha! That's a great one, Kelly! Thanks for the tip -- I'll check out that site. I already do LazyDBA which gives me a lot of good information -- an amazing group of people on that list and was using a forum that I can't remember the name of now, but haven't in some time.

M

Re: Themes, Comments and Blog Helps

eyespi20 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:50:08 -0000

No, no tequila talk :) this theme out of the box has a leaf for the header and the comments were green. I changed the comments to the same color as posts as that was too much green, then made a custom header image to replace the leaf. I love my new eye :P

M

Re: Dates, Dates and More Dates

eyespi20 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:49:06 -0000

Thankfully, I don't have to remember them just deal with them in some fashion -- mostly tell how many hours and minutes passed between them.

M

Re: Classical Music Memories

eyespi20 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:26:04 -0000

You *do* know that statement was totally tic, don't you???

M

Re: About Me

eyespi20 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:26:03 -0000

You don't send EC credits via Email as far as I know -- click the black part of the widget and it will take you to my site profile, then in the upper right corner, there should be a link that says "give credits to this site" -- click that and fill in the blanks.

Thanks for the contest -- it was a fun one and different from all the rest!

M

Re: Themes, Comments and Blog Helps

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:51:06 -0000

It's not easy getting accepted by PU2B and actually, I don't think they're accepting blogspot blogs at all, so I may have sent you off on a wild goose chase!

M

Re: Thanks and a Tip of the Hat

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:50:04 -0000

Heh Heh Heh -- gotta keep you all dancin'.

M

Re: Specialized Social Networking

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:49:05 -0000

I know what you mean, Karen! My job entails me being on a computer all day and then I'm on it at home from the time I get up until the time I go to bed (which should be now!). Too much time in front of a screen and my butt is showing it :P

M

Re: Thanks and a Tip of the Hat

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:27:05 -0000

Thanks for taking a look -- I didn't realize that by having the font size set to pixels that you couldn't resize it in the browser - I though fixed font sizes had to have the "fixed: " in front, but admit to not being up on that.

I did realize when I saw the header was 1000px wide that the width would be an issue in browsers with larger resolutions such as my husband uses.

Thanks again for taking a look at it. I'll see what I can do to play with it some as well. I have the files here so can mess with it without affecting my site.

M

Re: Thanks and a Tip of the Hat

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:07:05 -0000

Thanks, Sailor! I have plenty of time <G>

Have a great trip -- don't do anything I wouldn't do :P

M

Re: Themes, Comments and Blog Helps

eyespi20 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:06:05 -0000

Thanks for the input, Marie! I appreciate it.

M