Author: Robert Coontz (Administrator)

Welcome, Neophytes! (September 2009 edition)

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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Best of the Blog

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.

September 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

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.

Alter Ego Thread, v. 2009.4

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.

Muse Needs YOU!

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.

MB Chessplayers — Your Help Is Needed!

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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