One sleep to go before the big E. I have no predictions. I am not certain of a National victory at this stage. I am trying to recall last election - I think on the day the blogs have to be quiet. If that's the law, we will respect that. I'll find something to keep me busy.
Maybe it's time to change the blog template. I'm not sure the new one has been that popular and I've found a really cool one. Looks a little bit conservative, a bit ancient and a touch of wild west. So what does that say? Solid, dependable, wise with a couple of six guns.
Mama, take this badge off of me / I can't use it anymore. / It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see / I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door. / knock knock knockin' on heaven's door ...
Maybe this time I'll first set it up on a test blog and see what my fellow authors think, and if Barnsley can handle the change.
In the meantime, howdy all. Drop in and be friendly.
Maybe it's time to change the blog template. I'm not sure the new one has been that popular and I've found a really cool one. Looks a little bit conservative, a bit ancient and a touch of wild west. So what does that say? Solid, dependable, wise with a couple of six guns.
Mama, take this badge off of me / I can't use it anymore. / It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see / I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door. / knock knock knockin' on heaven's door ...
Maybe this time I'll first set it up on a test blog and see what my fellow authors think, and if Barnsley can handle the change.
In the meantime, howdy all. Drop in and be friendly.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteBusy day today after being late out last night to one of my secret women's meetings.
I am very much looking forward to the school holidays when I won't be teaching maths. No, I shouldn't complain, it's all good.
Anyhow, I decided a couple of weeks back who I'd vote for. It'll be National. They're not perfect, but then the threat of a Labour/Green Government makes voting for anyone else just far too dangerous. And ACT is out of the question for me.
Hi all;
ReplyDeleteI am still undecided as to what I will do in the booth tomorrow but I will enter therein.
Change the template? Indeed you should Zen. This one doesn't work and is quite slow to load.
And rearranging things is fun besides
Evening. It seems to be starting off quietly.
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm registering another vote for a cool new and improved template. This one seems to have gone down like a lead balloon. Although people have been fairly polite about it I suppose.
Question is, will the new one be better? Or will it suddenly be a case of missing the good old days? And no, I do not want to return to the original. Bottom line, three columns. Probably also need the ability to expand to the full page width for those big screens and need to be able to display blog posts linked to our 5 authors.
Hopefully, now that I've spent a bit of time fiddling with the code, swapping out will not take as long. Although a lot of the link lists etc end up needing to be re-entered as blogger always seems to dump them when I switch templates.
Why don't you get radical and move from blogger to typepad or wordpress
ReplyDeleteZen?
Become master of your own destiny in the blogosphere
And I thought it was what I said, not where I lived :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd what's wrong with State Housing anyway??
Bbbuuutttt .. there is something basic about being a blogger, like wearing your trousers rolled and getting round in bare feet ... almost sounds like a love song.
ReplyDeleteFrost tomorrow they reckon.
Oh, and good evening all.
Evening all--experimenting with some genuine Aberdeen kippers here and they're delicious.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I have Scots blood in me somewhere?
Crusader Rabbit will NOT be obeying the law when it comes to posting on election day.
Short of the equivalent of shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre I intend to exercise my right to free speech come hell or high water.
Good luck for tomorrow folks, hope you lot have learned enough and are ready to haul the lefty vermin out onto the trash heap. Vote early, vote often, if you can, save yourselves. :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck Kg. It will probably be the only electoral crime they prosecute this year.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if you explain it was simply passing on a request from a certain Mr. Winstone Pieters in exchange for being made Governor General, you'll be cleared.
Voting for Blue tomorrow. Allan Chesswas wrote an excellent post about it being a good Conservative option. (Not sure if that's me anymore, but still..)
ReplyDeleteThis template beats the crusty old bog standard blogger one you had before. But still, not pretty. That big blue ribbon down the middle makes me feel a bit seasick! Bring on something more Wild West!
Hey Andrei, are you the co-blogger from TBR.CC ?? It's much quieter over there these days. (Except this week).
Evening all. Seems a bit anticlimactic, don't it?
ReplyDeleteThe leftists are spoofing themselves over a Roy Morgan poll which started polling nearly three weeks ago and days before the folly of Mike Tacky Williams was revealed and stopped before the duplicitous secret taper was revealed as a Greens/Labour plant.
I'm looking forward to a comfortable win.
lol! Thanks for the tip, Zen.
ReplyDeleteBut, if prosecuted my only response will be "do what you will--since the justice system is demonstrably corrupt a plea would only legitimise this process".
Freezing here, but there's another cord of firewood on the way!
Hi Adolf--that was a superb comment you made over at No Minister--I'm tempted to make it a post in itself.
ReplyDeleteI hope your right Adolf.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking around for the fat lady. Question is, what song is she going to pick?
I never look at the sites anymore - it's all Google Reader.
ReplyDeleteNot the best idea, if you like to read everything on all the blogs... better not to know you've missed stuff sometimes!
It was interesting to read the rant on dim post - I think a lot of people are being put off National this time, and will vote for them next time once they realise that the world does not end, the 90s do not come back just because Key is PM.
ReplyDeleteZen don't move to Typepad - it's damn expensive for what it is - although the templates and so on are good. I'm on the budget plan and don't know if I will renew.
ReplyDeleteAnd vote Blue tomorrow! They need a clear mandate in Wellington. And it's a poke in the nose for all the haters.
Key is a good man you know.
Wordpress.com is ok, but one thing it lacks is that capgotcha thingy. What that means is that the spam is caught by an algorithm, which lets some through and it's totally disgusting.
ReplyDeleteNever fear Bill is here.
ReplyDeleteChange blog template? hmmm good idea.
Here is a suggestion... Change it back to the one we all liked, the comfy fit template.
We fear change (tomorrow's lolly scramble aside)
Well folks, I'm off to bed.
ReplyDeleteInscrutable scrutineering for ACT tomorrow but my vote goes to the Gnats.
Us older buggers call that loyalty, not something of with which Helen Clark has understanding.
I guess election day is supposed to be politics free - so it might be a good idea not to post in the spirit of having one day every 3 years where politicians don't' dominate our lives.
ReplyDeleteThen, the day after we get our freedom of speech back, having lost it 1/1/08. Isn't the government so generous?
Staying on blogger. Will try a new template, subject to approval from my fellow authors (I guess I can whack it up and then restore the other template if required.)
ReplyDeleteAnd Barnsley, it will look almost like the old one, except a bit more ancient and wild western and not quite so cloudy blue.
Speaking of blue...good luck tomorrow one and all.
The day after we get our freedom of speech back. I'm hoping it doesn't start with some robust language.
And the Friday pun, of course:
ReplyDeleteI wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
I'll be voting Family Party of course!
ReplyDeleteEven if you're voting for National, if you are in Mangere, East Coast Bays or Manukau East, go for the Family Party candidate. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain, voting this way will help secure a National victory - and National needs all the friends they can get, although they are way ahead in the polls they must get over 50% with a coalition and are still light on coalition partners.
And make sure you pray, not just hope, for a change of government. Ultimately God is in charge and it is He who will decide the election outcome.