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Blog Space.....Help!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:47:19 +0100

We are allowed 100MG space on our blogs.....Please explain to 'Rookie Bushka':
1. Does that include all the blogs I have?

2. How can I know - ascertain - how much is left for me? I've started uploading some Audio stuff....looks like quite a few MB...am I right?

3. Can someone point me to a place where I can learn bout this - the 100MB proviso?

Thanks.....

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:21:45 +0100

Should you do what people tell you to do or should you do the opposite?

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Is There Any Way To........

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:16:42 +0100

Block one individual from commenting on your posts? You can block someone from messaging you but what about this?

Probaly a few here are getting "random", unassociated comments and its tiresome to have to delete them.
Wouldn't it be nice just to block that user from commenting.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:20:04 +0100

When JFK gave his famous speech at Rice University in 1962 he stated that:

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard!

One thing has always intrigued me about this, and that is what are/were "the other things"?
It has always struck me as a bit too vague to be included in that sentence considering the enormity of the task of going to the Moon.

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How to make a STICKY Post

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:58:02 +0100

How can i make a Post STICKY?

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Contact details for BCUK Management (edit: resolved)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:59:12 +0100

Do any of you have them?

I'm particularly keen to be able to get in touch with the BCUK Customer Services Manager to discuss the tagging fiasco. Does anyone know if such a person exists or how to contact them?

It's all very well talking to Rampage, Cyzzie etc. who do a fine job at the sharp end, but on this occasion we need answers from higher up the management chain.

Thanks, Tom.

(Edit): These are the 2 managers:

http://www.blog.de/user/florian/
http://www.blog.de/user/vasco/

Vasco joined in on a discussion here:

http://armchairrevolutionaries.blog.co.uk/2009/11/05/mokono-company-aims-7312522/

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Blocking sites

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:15:41 +0100

Does anyone know how to block bebo? I tried going to run on the computer and then putting in a code and adding 127.0.0.1 bebo.com but it hasn't worked - the blonde is already registered on there - do i need to undo that first?
thanks

Asked and answered now - thank you guys - so closing comments x

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Am I Overreacting?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:22:56 +0100

Early this morning I logged on to blog to encounter a raft of improvements.

Useful tabs had vanished completely - Recent Posts along with Groups.

No more Buzz or Featured Blogs - Who’s on Line etcetera whatever!

I followed the Link to recent posts - Ninety percent were spam.

All in all I can’t help feeling that Blog UK has lost it’s way!

Is it just me - Am I overreacting - Did somebody mention Tags?

Adam ... x

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Ringtones

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:47:40 +0100

Hello, my name is Mira and I'm techie illiterate , for the most part , anyway.

The other day , I got a new mobile phone, my second ever and things have progressed over the past 5 years

Can anyone tell me how to download a ring tone? Is it complicated ? What does it entail? Will I be able to do it myself ?

The ringtones on my phone ( samsung GT-E2120 ) are quite boring but I have found a site that send free ringtones and this one is a bollywood one at that. It is actually a lovely mantra

http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/694338/gayatri-mantra-ringtone/?pos=9&search=om

There's also a nice deep OMm there.

Thank you in advance

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Are you happy with the new tag system?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:01:57 +0100

Functionality has been reduced and we weren't consulted or warned. Furthermore, content that we created has been deleted. I think this is not acceptable. What do you think?

If you are not happy with this, please email support@blog.co.uk and let them know your feelings!

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Pro account

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:34:40 +0100

How do you change your subscription options or unsubscribe?

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Tagged

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:56:49 +0100

I have just received a private message rom blog.co.uk telling me I have been tagged with 'dancing'.
What does this mean?
Does this happen to everyone or has someone done this just to me?
I don't think I've ever mentioned dancing!

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MURDERLAND ITV

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:56:39 +0100

I should know better than to try and watch a 3 part drama, i missed the last one due to my daughter being poorly. Anyone know who the killer was? can only seem to get access to part one on iplayer so thats no good

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MOVE OUT THE FRIGGING WAY!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:22:39 +0100

Ok...why do people feel it is necessary to walk right in front of me when i am in a rush and agitated enough as it is and cannot sense this and so continue to walk at the snail-like pace...when i try to overtake them, this is the time the seem to feel my angry presence and move so that once again they are blocking my path, i fing this intensly annoying and causes me to become rather misanthropic.
My question is this; how do i get these brain dead idiots to move and at the same time express my frustration?
do i smack them in the back of the head? Please help as i am unaware of the etiquette in such a situation
SLx

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Report as inappropriate

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:42:30 +0100

I accidentally clicked on "report as inappropriate" on a bloggers details. Jittery damn sensitive new Labtec mouse I've got.....His comment disappeared from a post on my blog and I'm just wondering what the consequences are for him.
cheers

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Switch to the new editor

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:39:27 +0100

I always use the "switch to the new editor" button as it saves messing with html to reposition photos, add new text etc if you use the initial "post contents" window. It's not new anymore. Is there any way of going straight to the new editor window without having to click on the button...?
cheers

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any other way?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:25:50 +0100

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist... so which way lol? :-*

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Motorways

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:02 +0100

Ok, we were a bit bored in the waiting room earlier but this question came up..

Were motorways numbered in the order that they were built?

The M1 is the oldest motorway and is 50 years old but did the M2 come next followed by the M3?

My OH says the M69 was built before the M40 though so if they weren't done in order, why on earth were they numbered as they have been??

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Er...you've got your hands in your trousers?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:35:18 +0100

Can some kind person take the time to explain to me exactly why increasing amounts of younger gentlemen(and others not so young), who we have come to know as chavs and the like, seem to be walking around with their hands down the front of their trousers holding what i can only guess is their inadequate genitals?
Am I the only one who has noticed this?
They stand around in groups all with their hands down their pants, you must have seen it!?
I have seen groups people actually speaking to these weirdos as if nothing was slightly off, as they stand their unashamedley with their dirty mits delving around in their boxer shorts.
It seems to me it is a fashion, like the low slung jeans that people are wearing at the moment. But I can understand that someone might see someone dressed that way and think thats cool I'll wear my trousers like that too. But who sees a bloke standing round with his hands in his pants and thinks 'yeah I wanna look that like guy!' 'god damn thats one ice cold rudeboi!'
Could this be classed as indecent behaviour?
Why do they do it?
Where did it start? (apparently the low slung extremely baggy jeans started in american prisons for some reason)

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title-7291472

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:34:10 +0100

Can some kind person take the time to explain to me exactly why increasing amounts of younger gentlemen(and others not so young), who we have come to know as chavs and the like, seem to be walking around with their hands down the front of their trousers holding what i can only guess is their inadequate genitals? Am I the only one who has noticed this? They stand around in groups all with their hands down their pants, you must have seen it!? I have seen groups people actually speaking to these weirdos as if nothing was slightly off, as they stand their unashamedley with their dirty mits delving around in their boxer shorts. It seems to me it is a fashion, like the low slung jeans that people are wearing at the moment. But I can understand that someone might see someone dressed that way and think thats cool I'll wear my trousers like that too. But who sees a bloke standing round with his hands in his pants and thinks 'yeah I wanna look that like guy!' 'god damn thats one ice cold rudeboi!' Could this be classed as indecent behaviour? Why do they do it? Where did it start? (apparently the low slung extremely baggy jeans started in american prisons for some reason)

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How to get abducted by Aliens?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:54:38 +0100

I havent got a clue on how to annoy the aliens to the extent that they decide to come all the way from another galaxy and abduct me.How about giving me some good ideas on this?
Dont forget to tell me how to survive while in alien abduction,and how to escape from them.

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Are post offices open tomorrow?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:51:44 +0100

Keep in mind that I could be asking this question yesterday.

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Can someone bring back Friday Fives?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:38:46 +0100

Please? Fridays on blog just arent the same! Also whoever was thinking up all those memes. Please bring them back too!

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Why ??? Unwanted visitor ??

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:38:14 +0100

WHY ???? Is there a firm of Injury Lawyers touting for business on my Blog ????

How can people do this?? It says the firms name and then (visitor).

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Contact Lenses

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:24:06 +0100

I don't wear them but I've got some white out ones to wear on Saturday to a Halloween party.
I've got no problems with the theory of putting them in my eye, I don't mind touching my eyeballs!

But I don't know how to put them in, if you get me. Do I have to do anything with them before I put them in? Is there a trick to it?

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Need Help

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:02:01 +0100

I have been bulleyed buy one of the major mobile phone service provider. They changed the contrect details without my knowldge and now they are demanding for extra money.

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Subscribers and Friends only posts

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:13:20 +0100

Quick question.

If someone has subscribed to my blog but isn't on my friends list (at least I don't think they are because I thought friends show up with their username if they subscribe)

can they see any posts I make if they are friends only???

(hope that makes sense)

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Poems : Why Good or Bad ?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:01:30 +0100

Just wondering : What is the criteria for judging whether a poem is good , bad or indifferent ?
There are many published poets , and many more unpublished ones .
I know just a little about music , films , books and paintings , but I have no idea whatsoever re. how to assess poetry . .

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Question:

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:19:33 +0100

What film do I want to watch?

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The Porpoises by John Gurney.

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:45:04 +0100

Some weeks ago, I asked had anyone this Poem. Nobody had the full version. I have found it, and here it is.

The Porpoises by John Gurney.
Plutarch would have called it suicide,
some strange ancestral yearning of the school
that drove them to the harbour, past the bar,
then left them, beached and squealing, on the rocks,
abandoned by the quick ebb of the tide
that slides out through the darkness. Here they lay,
bleeding, overheating, as their calls
went whistling to each other through the sea,
the free ones swimming back towards the lost
till they turn were stranded, and the men
came wading from the village, torches high
to finish them with cleavers. After all,
such creatures were the gift of Providence,
pig-fish from the ocean, porpoises
their blunt heads and their countershaded sides
sent in to feed the village. That they lived
as harmless young children on the deep
would court the running hull upon the foam,
rush at it head on, to rub its sides
with amounts of rough vigour - fawned on men,
and lifted them from drownding in the waves,
mourned in deep affliction if they died,
was scarcely to the point. Life was hard,
the women three parts starving, and the beasts
condemed to die, exhausted, by their own
irrational compulsion. Nonetheless
the sheer fact of their killing seems a crime,
intrudes on my awareness every time
I think about creation,on its Cause,
the link with mutilation that distorts
the bond of pure dependence: and at dusk,
especially in the blue gloss of the mud
thrusts above the grey silt of the tide
I feel myself accused, and in my mind
act out my reparation: Drag them down
haul them by the tail flukes or snout
towards the deeper water: hold them up,
their skin tough as rubber, smooth as wrack,
the warm air of their blowholes on my arms,
until, their strength returning, off they plunge
in great leaps past the headland. Watch them go,
the slow heave of their undulating backs
departing like a groundswell through the waves
in synchronised perfection, till they float
at rest beneath the moonlight, with each head
a map of echo-shadows, as they hang
transparent to the uproar of the deep.

This is a beautiful, but sad story of something that seems to happen to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. The poem captures the reality.

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