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Continued from Part the Ninth.
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We probably should make another five or six of these threads in advance and keep them in the refrigerator until they’re needed. They don’t last very long.

Continued from Part 6.

We’ve just installed a new version of the “Chess by Blog” plug-in, which is supposed to solve the “closed board” problems some of you have been having with Internet Explorer. Please let us know if you notice any difference.

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A pack of MBers and their parents rallied on Saturday (September 5) in Amherst, Massachusetts. This is their story.

MuseBlog’s software upgrade went smoothly and was much less painful than expected. At least, we think it did and was; we can’t tell how well the new version is working yet. Let us know if you notice anything odd (that is, beyond the baseline oddness that passes for normal around here).

Thanks,

The GAPAs

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Ahoy! Are you new to MuseBlog? Don’t just wonder around bumping into people and breaking things. Come in here, where our cheerful welcoming committee will pie you fill you with pie and bloggerly wisdom. Come on in!
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Use the comments here to swap tips about outstanding, little known, and/or underutilized parts of MuseBlog. (In four years, we’ve accumulated an amazing number of chasms, subterranean passages, sunken cities, and fossiliferous formations.) Be sure to include the URL (Web address) so others can share your finds.

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

09-01 Ambystoma Maculatum (1996 – purple and green)
09-02 Der Wachtelschlag’s/Queen Julietaini’s birthday (1993 – orange)
09-02 Loupgarou’s birthday (1991 – blue, purple, or green)
09-04 Kokopelli52 (1997 – clear turquoise)
09-06 the_californian_chick (year? – rainbow)
09-09 jammin j’s birthday (1993 – green)
09-15 The Man For Aeiou’s birthday (1995 – Muse Shirts)
09-17 rachael’s birthday (1993 – yellow)
09-17 Iamisthebest (1996 – blue and black)
09-17 eragon’s birthday (1997 – blue/rainbow)
09-18 Sweet Melpomene’s birthday (1990 – black-and-white)
09-19 The Bookworm’s birthday (1995 – green, purple, blue, silver)
09-19 marfwarrior’s birthday (1995 – green with multicolored flecks)
09-24 Zinc the Sorceress’s birthday (1997 – black and “highliter”)
09-25 Lioness’s birthday (1995)
09-28 Dracasting’s birthday (1993 – green or purple)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between and December 24, 1995, and January 23, 1996
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between March 30 and April 28, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between July 4 and August 2, 1990.

You will have been on MuseBlog for six months if you started posting in March.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:

SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER MUSE SPOILER.

Let us know when your issue arrives. (It probably already has.)

NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

Pick a pseudonym; guess who the other pseudonymous posters are while they try to guess you. It’s a little like “Battleship.”

Continued from version 2009.3.

NOTE: Check your posts before sending them — remember that now you can use the preview button. The Administrators will not rescue you if you accidentally submit one under your “real” blogname. Many an alter ego has fallen victim to a careless “submit” click.

There should just be time for a third installment, as the monthly random thread celebrates MuseBlog’s fourth anniversary with sundry images from days of yore (and mine).
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They’re things we all have in common, yet we haven’t had a new thread about them since last year. So what are we waiting for? Let’s eat talk about eating!

*Round-Robin ‘Riting.

Another MuseBlog saga keeps unfolding. This one began unfolding on October 4, 2006 (by request of oxlin, who bore a different name in those days) and shows no signs of refolding anytime soon.

Continued from Part 4.

Sequoia: Let’s see if this game will let you move now. Read more »

The last thread devoted to this topic started in 2007. It’s high time for another one.

By popular request, a new Role-Playing Writing thread, with details still To Be Determined.

Muse‘s editor, Elizabeth Preston, sends this notice:

Attention MuseBloggers: Muse needs YOU! The Muserology column is experiencing a critical shortage of submissions. We know a lot of you out there are great writers with interesting stories to tell. Check out www.musemagkids.com/muserology to get ideas, read the guidelines, and submit your own story. What better way is there to spend the end of your summer vacation than writing something that will be published and read by tens of thousands of people? Submit by Friday, August 28 to be considered for the November/December 2009 issue, or anytime after that for 2010 issues.

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(including tall ships and very large lakes).

At least one MBer has recently run away to sea and returned; others have dabbled in matters maritime and notions nautical; still others just like reading about them. Here’s a place to talk about the whole watery Weltanschauung.

Some of you report that you haven’t been able to move your pieces since we upgraded the blog’s chess software around the end of July. We’d like to solve the problem but need more information.

• Can anybody move, or is it a universal outage?
• If you can’t move, have you tried clearing your browser’s cache (not just the browsing history, but the actual cache of Web pages that your browser stores to make them easier to load)?
• What sort of message do you see when you try to move? Does it say “closed board,” or does it tell you it’s waiting for your move and then fail to accept it?

(Of course, some of you probably have gotten tired of chess and stopped playing, but if anyone wants to keep playing, we’d like to make it possible.)
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Infinite questions, and a non-zero number of answers. Fire away.

Continued from No. 6.