Disqus

A few days ago I was chatting with someone on my blog and found out that the comment system I had wouldn't quite let you post a comment.  The captcha you were required to fill out wasn't working correctly and the box you were supposed to type it into wasn't there.  I decided I will use Disqus instead, I use it for another one of my sites and thought it would be easy enough.  For the most part it was, but I came to one small problem; previously the bar on top of a post would look something like this:

The number of comments would be shown, but when I added Disqus, the numbers would remain the same even if there were more comments.  For example, when I clicked the "comments (1)" link it showed me two comments.

I knew I couldn't just leave it like that so i tried to fix it, but I could not.  I tried for a long time to fix it to no avail.  I finally just decided to take off the comments thing, but then I realized I could just make it say "Comments," so I made it like that.  However it would still be nice for it to show the number of comments there are so if you might know how to fix this, please tell me.

THE CODE
If you are interested in helping me, here is the code that was the default:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>
<data:top.commentLabel/> (1)<b:else/><data:top.commentLabelPlural/> (<data:post.numComments/>)
</b:if>
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>

</SPAN>
</DIV>

Here is the code that is currently being used for it:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>


<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>Comments
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>


</SPAN>

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MLIA

MLIA is an acronym standing for "My life is average." There is a whole website dedicated to it at mlia.com.  On the site you can find just a bunch of "average" stories posted by their users.  Most of the stories that are newer are not really average, but more humorous, and most are probably made up.  Nonetheless, if you are bored, it is a great site to just visit and read those stories; they have thousands of them.  Just by reading those stories, you could even find blog ideas, if you are a blogger.

If you get bored enough, you can even make your own account and post your own stories.  When you submit your own story though, just know that it is only a submission, it is not posted.  Posted stories are found on the home page of the site, but you can vote on submissions, if your submission gets enough votes, the submission will then become a posted story.  Also, your submission won't appear in the "Vote on Submissions" page right away.  You have to wait a while; I submitted my first story a month and a half ago and it still is not on that page.

I have also read many stories of people wishing a happy birthday to their friends and stuff like that, so if you want to give a happy birthday wish to your wife or husband or something, you should probably post it right now, then show the person the shout out for his/her birthday next year.

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WhiteSmoke

Have you ever heard of WhiteSmoke?  Well, if you haven't then here is my understanding of it: it is a program similar to Microsoft Word, only it is supposed to be excellent at perfecting any mistakes that you might make.  Anyways, I got this email from them advertising an Outlook add-in of theirs and they gave an example of how it works; you have a poorly written email, you click the "T-Gen" (The name of the add-in) button and a message appears showing you how many mistakes you made then fixes them.  The example they gave just shows how horrible their add-in is and probably Outlook alone could fix everything that the "T-Gen" did.  Here is a picture:

Notice how the last sentence of the final email says, "it very important!"  Now I don't know about you, but I certainly think that the program didn't work to well on fixing that because "it very important" just sounds like baby-talk.  The "i" in "it" isn't even capitalized!  I can't believe that WhiteSmoke actually sent this email out to everyone who is subscribed to their mailing list.  It is quite embarrassing if you ask me. 

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Does Blogger Automatically Submit Your Blog To Search Engines?

I used to think that the answer to this question was yes, but then I tried to find this blog in Google and it didn't work out too well.  I think that it would be safe to say that the answer is no, Blogger does not automatically submit your blog to search engines.  Sense you are reading this I am either guessing that you searched this yourself and want to know, or you were reading through my blog, but just in case you are reading for the first reason I am going to give you a link to a site that submits your blog or site to tons of search engines.  To submit your site to search engines, go here http://www.freewebsubmission.com/.

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Parcheesi

Now who doesn't like Parcheesi, it is a classic family game good for all ages.  Actually I don't really know anything about the game other than how to easily win in it.  The first time I played the game was last night and I won without one of my two opponents even getting one of their pawns into home.  I used a very simple strategy to win and now I will tell you how you can win at Parcheesi.  Okay first you have to get fives to get out of your base and so what you want to do is make a blockade on the space that you get let out on.  To make a blockade, you just have to get two of your pieces on to the same space.  Once you have the blockade on your starting space, don't move it until you get your other two pawns in your home, unless you have no choice but to move them because someone else blocked you off.  Once you get your blockade there, leave it there that way people will pile up behind you but they can't move anywhere and you have pretty much the whole board as your "safe spot."  This way you will always have at least two of your pawns in home before any of your opponents get one pawn in.  And if for any reason you have to go back to your starting base, then when you roll and you get, say a five and four for example, you still have your blockade, so just move one pawn of your blockade four spaces and then take a pawn out of your base replacing the broken link of the blockade.  Once you create the blockade at your starting space before any of your opponents passed that spot, you are guaranteed to be the first to land some pawns in home as long as you don't, at anytime, break up the blockade.  And once you have your two pawns in before anyone else you are almost guaranteed a win unless you are very unfortunate.  Also when you only have two pawns left to get home, move them together and try to make them blockades as many times as you can.  Just remember, don't move a whole blockade on doubles as that is against the rules, but if you have a blockade and you roll a five and four, move one five and one four, then if you get the same thing next time move the further behind one five and the one in front four that way you can create another blockade.

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