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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Don’t Forget These Threads (August 2009 edition)

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. (Making you re-request these every month helps to weed out the no-longer-fit.) Maybe we’ll actually manage to paste a few of them in this month. Continue reading “Don’t Forget These Threads (August 2009 edition)”

August 2009 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays this month*:

1 August – MuseBlog (2005), Armada’s birthday (1996),
3 August – AJAR (1992)
4 August – Brendan (1995), Random Kokopelli (1997)
7 August – Koppar
8 August – QueenOfAces (1997), small but fierce
9 August – RAWR
21 August – Adeia (1996), Alice (1993)
27 August – Nthanda the Laugher (1991), Kiga (1997), Rainbow (1997), Errata
28 August – Sunrunner Bramblewood (1993)
29 August – Turquoise (1995), gnash (1996)
30 August – AvalonGirl (1998)
31 August – Quintessentia (1992), shriya siolashrwa jeffica (1992)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between November 24 and December 24, 1995
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between February 27 and March 29, 1993.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between June 4 and July 3, 1990.

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

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

Random Fact(oid)s, 2009

Requested by Silver Lining, who probably can’t remember the previous thread of this type.
 

ATTENTION: NEW RULE!

 
Henceforth (starting on July 11), anyone posting a piece of information here must say where the information came from. Reason: Including the source will help other MBers decide how accurate a factoid is and whether it is worth repeating.
 
–Your beneficent Administrators