Site Upgraded
Hey everyone.. I just upgraded the website… and it was a MAJOR upgrade!
I need you all to let me know if you encounter any problems as I am not sure if all of my plugins work with this new system.. so please write all the issues here on this post!
Thanks so much!
-Marina
Seemed to have lost the URL link to Zune. Can you post the link here so that I ca try to link back up?
Love your pictures that come up promoting videos at The HotForWords home site. Long live the Republic of Lexicon……..The Capital of Etymologia
I love upgrades!
Please send my best regards to your coders… they made stuff work, and that rarely happens without a lot of work put in
After everything got sorted out (has it?), I like the changes. The gravatars in recent comments section is pretty cool. That section seems to be up to speed, now. Thst messed me up earlier on, especially when lots of people were posting quickly (somebody had trouble finding replies). Is the I like section new, or has somebody not been paying attention? Great job, M.
Those broads look sorta devious, bet they’re fixing those cars so they go fast, working for whiskey runners and moonshiners.
Such independent women even back then. We’d rather work on cars and handle cars manly all day and all night than be manhandled in cars.
Oh, I know what they’re saying in that photo. Those looks aren’t smile and say cheese, oh no, They’re message is as clear as day: See here buster! This is the reason you have nothing to do on a Friday night
Are daddys are strict and finally had it with us and so we got sold for $100 a piece to work in the car factory and now we do forced labor. Aren’t you glad you didn’t live in these troubling times?
These broads are working on cars til they find themselves some real boyfriends. Yeah, they’ll be hitting the motorway after the midnight hour with their checkered flags and their tight short, shorts, they be an early day version of the fast & furious
These mechanic chicks are wearing high heels for crying out loud!
That photo just begs for captions.
The most bigoted comment I could come up with is: you know what they say about women who can work on cars, don’t you? they spend less time in the kitchen and more time in bed than those women who can cook their men full course gourmet meals.
That’s a cool photo. Those young women look like they want equal pay and workman’s comp and all that good stuff just like the fellows get. meh
A grease monkey properly busts his/her knuckles when fully dressed up in a monkeysuit. I’ve gone loon, it’s the gamma rays, full moon. I’m spouting hair on the back of my hands and howling. Don’t worry, I will make it up to you one day and buy you a house.
The greasing and lubrication of the suspension system, the drive train and other general parts of a vehicle. A total lube job should be performed professionally once or twice a year and can easily be done when a vehicle’s oil is changed.
Matthew Wright
Auto Repair Guide
“The Mechanicstresses”
The young ladies need to go on a diet. Notice the right front tire!
The photo must have been taken in a cold climate or near one. Notice the snow chain hanging from the right rear of the car to the right.
BTW, the creeper the young lady is lying on is the very same one that was the inspiration for the 1938 song, Jeepers, Creepers. It’s true, I tell you.
Awake now?
It just seems like there are more реклами.
Well Lets see how the comment system is
updatedAlright. The background faded as I assume is intended, and a edit window popped up. Problem was it said “Saving…” and continued to say “Saving…” without any notification that the process was complete — which it obviously was since my initial post now has bold/itallic/strike commands in it.
I probably should add I am running Safari 3.2.1 on Macintosh OS X 10.4.11 — that could be why.
Why is everyone refreshing all over the place? When you see the “Saving…” message, just click the browser Back button. You can see the modified text and confirm that the edit “took.” It’s not as nice as if it worked like we all expect it to, but it certainly gets the job done.
Wait, I’m hearing you can edit comments posted. Is that true, by fixing type-Os and stuff? And if so, how do you do that?
For five minutes after submitting a post, you may use the Click to Edit button that appears above the text of the post. Graphic smilies are not available, but you can type the text equivalent, e.g. “:smile:” or “:grin:” if you leave a space on either side of it. At least for the time being, after “Saving…” appears, click your browser’s Back button to return to the blog. (This may change later.)
Have you heard when someone says ‘flash in the pan’ or ‘fly by
night’. Do you know the origin of this?
Hope to hear from you soon.
Flash in the pan is from the pre-flashbulb days of photography. Flash powder was spread along the length of a 1 or 2-ft.-long tray (the pan) that was held up by the photographer. Just after opening the lens, he would ignite the powder to get enough light to make a short exposure and then close the lens. Anything said to be a flash in the pan is possibly of great fame or success, but only lasts for a very short time. Poof!
Forgot all about the calender with all that joining up stuff lol
The calender is great & hangin real close by { also without a signature}
Hi Marina, all appears pretty well with the update. By the way, i just recieved my calendar, great job, and very helpfull notes.
Share with us all your birthday’s gifts on a video, ok…
hi marina, all appears well with the update. your student, posti
Golly! I only went to sleep for six hours, and look what happened…
The new curtains look nice…
I guess I’ll do some field testing and see if I can still find everything. Where’s the kitchen?
“If something is worth doing right, it’s worth doing well”
“If you love what you do you’ll never work another day in your life” Old Saying
I’ve only posted 95 er.. 96 comments
How 
Will the iTunes feed start working again?
According to iTunes, it hasn’t been updated since 11/22, and before that is 8/23. 
FYI
If I try to logout VIA the Logout >> link above the comment box next to my screenname, it takes me to a page that says “You are attempting to logout of HotForWords” “Please try again.”
But, if I logout through the top right of the site, it logs me out immediately.
Dear Teach,
Ok so I went to log out and it would not let me, & a please try again later message came up. Does that mean I don’t have to go home tonight?
Your Dear Student,
ThoughtOnFire
That isn’t exactly a problem.
I don’t mind sleeping in class, I used to sleep in school all the time.
I ate all of my Spaghetti and I’m going to smoke a cig, so, no problems here. All is running so smooth I don’t know what changed. Whatever it was, it must have been good.
I logged in to make a comment and had to reload the page with my browser to get this window to show. Might be my browser.
HEY, FINALLY I GOT MY CALENDAR! It’s OK.
Your sister didn’t autograph it (I thought for sure I was one of the first 100 people that night you posted about the calendar being available. But that’s Ok too, as I’ll sign it for your sister with a magic marker. I think I’ll sign it, “Thank you for buying my calendar, Love Sparky!”
Bye Bye Sparky! Arf Arf!
no problems here!!!!
I am using Mozzila Firefox under GNU/Linux (kubuntu if it cares), and the screen does not match as it would be, maybe by the resolution that i am using. If you want, i can send you screenshots of my screen. And sorry for my english, i am not a native speaker
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Hi arielboss
I use Linux ( Novell ) and Firefox works ok for me.
The only problems I have are caused by the wrong text size.
Try reducing the size of your text in Firefox browser.
i.e View -> Text Size -> Decrease
The whole edit thing doesn’t seem to be working for me, It just says SAVING… and doesn’t continue.
I had to refresh the page… then my edit showed up, after a longer than usual wait.
upgrade wasn’t state of the art
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Happy day after your birthday Marina!
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LOL… the girl sitting on the engine, wearing heels… wonder if she’s wearing safety board approved footwear.
It looks like Marina under the car, tweaking the chassis… maybe she feels the website pulling to the right, after yet another brilliant, Billy O’ appearance… simple fix though. Over-looked some flatness in the right front tyre, not enough “Hot” air. (kinda’ bad sarcasm, i’ll work on it).
Tried a couple of old vids out & the faggot one stopped 1/2 way, but that may be my old work computer’s fault. (was showing a friend how the lessons used to look).
That “pic” is now my desktop pic, who gets the royalty cheque?
yep everything is working fine!
my nested replies don’t work.
I’m a bit of a dumbass, what is a nested reply? I don’t know if mine work… you know… me being older & such.
Meds. (and or) therapy may help.
i’m going to explain this to you via email.
I thought you said they’d all left the nest now, Billy.
read through wordpress help, still can’t figure out how to do a nested reply. is it no longer an option?
Do they work for Bill Gates???
Ohhh!! I get it! They upgraded yer site for ya!! Workin so far!!
LOVE the PIC!! Hehehehehehe, are these ladies “Geeks”, Nerds or mechanics??
In the navy we had a song about them – they were called parafinos.
Can’t remember much of the song except for one line,
“… they’ll grease your bearings in your car,
long live parafinos.”
Wow! Thats a word I have never heard! Thanks! Parafinos?
May have to ask Teach about this one!
Probably too specialised for Marina to know anything about.
nice picture
Oh well good night.
I went to edit that last comment and I had to cancel to move on to the next comment.
Marina I cannot get past the edit save feature. When I edit my post the save button want let me go any further. It just hangs and ajax edit is visible at the top of the comment box.
{test}
Edit problem is similar with others, read below
recent comments thingy has been upgraded , with gravatars
Che, I am leaving you in charge of this page. I will come back on Saturday to make sure you have been on top of things (if I can find my way back.) If you do not hear from me by Sunday, fire thirteen purple flairs at half hour intervals until I am able to track my way back in.
I might be able to check in with the breakfast club. Time will tell.
follow the scent of the burritos
It seems appropriate for today.
Marina we can edit our comments, we just don’t go back directly to the page after we hit the save button.
I must refresh the page with edit box to get back into the HFW page.
Try editing again … the page seems to hang after pressing save.
Does this work ?
WP Ajax Edit Comments is displayed and when I hit [save}
the screen appears to hang with “Saving…” message at the bottom.
ok
edit test
I still have to referesh, but I agree with Che. She might just have it set up so we have to refresh. Just because it is not the way I want it, does not necessarily mean it is wrong.
BTW, she is still messing around with the recent comments column. I guess it was time to rearrange the living room.
I have to go to work tonight and teach tomorrow. I hope I recognize the site by the time I eventually get back.
Holy Do-it-yourselfer-total-makeover! She is not just remodeling the living room, but the whole house. I just checked out the home page, and she has been busy there as well.
The WP Ajax Edit Comments page is displayed and when I hit [save}
the screen hangs with “Saving…” message at the bottom.
I had to kill fire-fox to get out.
I am able to hit f5 and get out. Or I can hit the red x in the upper right of the comment box. The one time I had a problem was when I left it on long enough for the screensaver to kick on, then it froze up the whole browser. I had to go to task mgr, but I do not know why I would ever leave a comment box open for five minutes.
I tried to Edit again and I got a
“You do not have permission to edit this comment” error.
That will come on if your time has expired. If you had refreshed the page, your edit option would not have been there.
That’s because your five minute window to edit expired.
Or you can’t edit after a reply has been made, which make sense
Try again…
Make changes hit [save] and while it appears to be hung hit [refresh]…
ok, that appears to work.
Was this the change Obama was talking about
Wow, she is changing all sorts of stuff at once. M is much bolder than me. I do not like changing that many things at once. I git skeered sumpin’ might not go so good, ‘n I won’t know which wrench to turn.
Marina is being a real geek tonight.
hmmm…now the comment links are showing up funny for me…this one showed up as “{snippet}” something or other…and my last post, to the O’Reilly vid post, says i posted to httvh: (leaving out the rest of the link)…
oh, and initial part of the comment itself is showing as the link…for example, my comment above shows as “annuddermale on hmmm…now the comme“…
I guess she is fidgetting with them right now. The last few times I have refreshed, they have been different. I guess she is looking to see what she likes best.
Well I’m back
I will check the edit button again…
now checking edit button
I’m in another tab now, it still locks up
I don’t see anyone else but me and bsomebody with this problem nor to I see Marina addressing this problem
So I guess it’s a mute point to continue reporting this info.
Whoa! Cool! Che, look to the right! You are HUGE, man!
Maybe refreshing the page after we edit is the way it’s suppose to work.
We just got use to going back to the page after we hit the save button.
Well, you were huge. I hope you saw it while it lasted. BTW, nudder says it’s doozin’ it ta him, 2.
Do you mean my other right?
Oh! I only see it on the second tab I opened
In the recent comments, our gravatars show up now. For a minute or so, your gravatar was about two inches square. I thought that was pretty cool. The names did get outta whack, though. Maybe that is why she changed it. (I still thought it was pretty cool)
I did see it before it disappeared
?
now this
I went to the Admin tab to Tools and d/l Gears. After I restarted my browser, I tried to edit. I hit save, and it still froze. Instead of f5ing, I hit cancel in the edit box, and the box went away. When I refreshed the page, my edit had stuck. I guess I just will not edit. I never liked it anyway. {wishing we had a raspberry smiley }
yes, it works the same for me, at least in IE7…”saving” twirls & twirls but never finishes…canceling and reloading the page shows the edit had posted…
I feel better knowing it is not just me. Che is trying now. We will see if it works for him. I do not know how M can fix it, though, if she cannot see the problem. She says the edit works fine for her.
That’s weird, I tried logging out and it doesn’t work. Not that i would ever want to log out and be away from Marina, just figured I’d try it to see whats going on.
Wow! What a change on the backend side of things. There are two menu plugins I can get rid of that where doing basically the same thing that the new update does.
but does the edit work, yet?
Let me see.
nope-still funky
WORKS FOR ME!!! (Marina here editing your comment!!)
So is the problem on my end? That last time I tried to edit, I let it run until my screensaver came on (5 min). I still had the edit screen, but this time it stuck for good. I had to go to task mgr and end HFW and start IE all over again. What am I doing wrong?
ps I did not know you could get in here. I thought it was a little cozy.
one more try
@M, next time I need to edit, I’ll just e-mail you, so you can edit for me!
The picture reminds me of M. Greasy hands, dressed for work, still gotta have the heels.
edit test
nope-funky
I mentioned this in a response to your announcement of the update on the “State of the Art” page, but when I log in, I’m taken to the WordPress profile options page instead of the homepage for hotforwords.
I just logged out and back in. It did the same to me. I don’t know if that is broke or that is how M wants it. Hmm…
The submit comment button is back up to speed. Now let’s see if the edit is any better.
Nope. Still locking in the edit box.
I can make it log into the homepage if you want… I thought the profile would be good so that people could update their profile… hmm…
Either way works for me. I was just passing along what it is doing.
edit test
nope-funky
Well, I think most of us are comfortable with how our profiles are, and if not we’ll go ahead and change them. When I logged in just now it brought me to the WordPress dashboard thing, which I also didn’t really find helpful.
I guess it just makes more sense to me to log in straight to the HFW homepage: that’s what we’re most interested and eager to get in to. Fellow students: post here giving your opinion on this matter so Marina can get a sense of how we as a collective class think the log in thing should work.
Why would anyone want to update their profile. Its not like anyone can see it.
Why, to add your city and state to the nickname field, update and then select the new nickname and update again. That way everyone will know your location — not good enough to leave a dead fish on your porch, but close enough for nuclear weapons of the hydrogenish variety.
OK. I made it go to the profile the first time your register… all other times it takes you to where ever you are when logging in.
That makes the most sense to me. Merci beaucoup, Marina!
Edit screen still locking up.
Have to close the edit window with the X and refresh the page.
After refresh, the edited text is where it should be.
So it’s not just bsomebody it’s happening to.
i don’t know if this has something to do with the update, but now i actually stay logged in, which is what i wanted, but before that, i had to log in every time i visited the site again…
Maybe I should repost my fix-it ’structions:
Now, I will try to edit.
Nope. It is still broke. I guess M followed the ’structions and is now curled up, reading a book, snuggled up to Gorby.
[Tech Support for the Book]
Oh, man. That is so me.
edit test
Nope. Still funky.
Kjempe morsomt.
:mam: = lol på Norsk (masser av morsomhed)
I’m here to find out
I’m in the edit now, will see if I get locked up here
and yes I did once again
I think M got lost on the trip. Hmm… Che, wave around a taco or sumpin’
She’s busy trying to solve the problems
I got to go now so see ya L8er
I think it just worked
No it didn’t
test { re test again by editing}
Is the submit comment button slower, or am I just overly conscious now?
Ha!
Is the edit any better over here?
Nope, the edit is still locking up.
…keep thinking you are the Pope
He does have a pretty cool hat.