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William Hilsum
William Hilsum
01:15
Bugger... I lost my consecutive days!
I arrived yesterday and was so tired, I went straight to bed... went on the internet, but kept falling asleep... Only missed it by a couple of hours :(
Oh well, not sure/if when I will come back as that was the main reason for logging on whilst away! Catch you all later.
 
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Sathya
Sathya
03:54
hi @studiohack
lol
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studiohack
studiohack
hey @Sathya
lol about spotify
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
04:18
Good morning!
Sathya
Sathya
04:31
mornin
studiohack
studiohack
evening - I'm over and out
night @Sathya and @SimonSheehan
Sathya
Sathya
good night @studiohack
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
05:13
Night @studiohack, morning @Sathya! How goes it?
Sathya
Sathya
not bad @SimonSheehan
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Q: What are some suggestions for encouraging more users to contribute to community blogs?

KronoSThe Stack Exchange Team has recently unveiled Blogoverflow, the new blogging platform for SE sites and users. The Super User Blog has been running for almost 8 months now, and we're starting to have some issues with writers "burning out", where writers seem to either get too busy, or no longer h...

discussion blogging publicity blog-overflow writers
I had told this was going to happen.
had mentioned earlier, post-a-day is not feasible in the long run
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya we were discussing it earlier actually. Supposing other blogs will run into this also, eventually. Last two weeks have been quite the burn out though :/
Sathya
Sathya
@SimonSheehan it's bound to happen.
I've been blogging for about 4 years now, and it's happened to me
personal experience
initial enthusiasm
write posts, get all pumped. Look at the stats. Even more enthusiasm!
then the novelty factor starts wearing off. Then the question comes - what do I write about next?
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya good point. Although by now it seems were down to very few people even willing to write. Suppose we need some fresh meat.
Sathya
Sathya
05:28
motivation, more like it
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
The thing about writing would be though, how much motivation can you get? I figured most of us just did it because we enjoyed it
Sathya
Sathya
@SimonSheehan it is enjoyable.. till you hit a limit
that limit can be different to different people, so people can write about anything.
then there's writer's/blogger's block as well
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
Yes, that too. I figured though with a community this big we would have less issues because more writers would be available who would do high quality posts slowly, so it wouldn't wear off on then too much. We just need a little boost.
Sathya
Sathya
@SimonSheehan true
Errant cron task yields yearlong time lapse of nytimes.com
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya that's insane o.o Funny how messy cron jobs manage these fun things :p
Sathya
Sathya
05:43
@SimonSheehan hehe indeed.
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya I take it your at work already?
Sathya
Sathya
yep, @SimonSheehan
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya watcha up to today there? Funny to think I haven't even slept yet and your already working xD
Sathya
Sathya
@SimonSheehan hehe. just trying to finish up a form here.
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
Ah, interesting. Might be time for me to figure out what these forms are. Google time!
Sathya
Sathya
05:59
sorry by forms I mean front end screens for an application @SimonSheehan
the database parts are more or less done
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
@Sathya oh, makes sense then. Well I'm off to sleep now, cya later!
 
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DMA57361
DMA57361
07:23
morning all
bckbck
bckbck
@DMA57361 morning
tho its in the afternoon here
DMA57361
DMA57361
often the case
Sathya
Sathya
.. and here as well
bckbck
bckbck
08:11
ooh, my school's learning management system got hacked
DMA57361
DMA57361
@bckbck by unruly students, or someone more malicious?
bckbck
bckbck
@DMA57361 some malicious joker
spammed the lesson lists with lonely island videos
DMA57361
DMA57361
lovely
bckbck
bckbck
and the IT staff is mad
DMA57361
DMA57361
well tbh I'd hope so
bckbck
bckbck
08:19
in fact all the staff are mad
DMA57361
DMA57361
if they were being blasé about it they'd need a slap
tombull89
tombull89
@bckbck that's BAAAAAD. Schools LMS have all sorts of sesetive data in.
bckbck
bckbck
@tombull89 yeah
tombull89
tombull89
If our SIMS server got hacked my line manager (network manager) would be sacked, and I'd be on a final warning.
bckbck
bckbck
if i'm not wrong the username format is really, really bad
uses IC numbers (something like the equivalent of social security numbers)
tombull89
tombull89
08:22
chuckle lonely island? "hack the server...like a boss"
2
ours ( think) are first inital dot lastname. But we have password complexity.
@bckbck Saying that, is this the school you go to, or work for?
bckbck
bckbck
@tombull89 our passwords are the same as the username, and doesn't require you to change it
@tombull89 I'm too young to work
I'm a student
tombull89
tombull89
@bckbck well they need to be shot...then taken out the back, and shot again. Seriously?! -_-
DMA57361
DMA57361
oh dear, that's very bad
bckbck
bckbck
@tombull89 and that exact system is used by the Ministry Of Education in my country
and endorsed by too
tombull89
tombull89
@bckbck Whoah, you are a youn 'un. I forget we have some sub-15 members.
bckbck
bckbck
08:26
@tombull89 i'm at the minimum age requirement
tombull89
tombull89
@bckbck I'm aware of that, we had two members suspeneded a while back for that.
And a MineCraft player too ^_^.
bckbck
bckbck
@tombull89 ah, i read those
on meta.so i think
tombull89
tombull89
Yeah.
Come to think of it, one was suspended for a combination of underage and massive sockpuppeting...but ah well.
bckbck
bckbck
@tombull89 wow
ah, i found it
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Q: New suspension message: "Grounded"

BenjolThis is a quiet lament for two apparently under-age users Benny & Nyuszika7h whose accounts have been temporarily suspended. It would be nice to mark their accounts as "temporarily grounded", as they haven't actually done anything 'bad'. It would also be nice for the team to "add a nice wor...

discussion feature-request account-suspension
 
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DMA57361
DMA57361
10:04
mmmmm dark chocolate digestives :9
bckbck
bckbck
@DMA57361 sounds tasty
DMA57361
DMA57361
yeah, they'll do
 
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HackToHell
HackToHell
12:31
need some js help .... how do i add CSS for images to show a loader while they load <img style="background:url(bnote.googlecode.com/files/loading.gif) center center no-repeat #ffffff;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XhQhJoVMed8/TGPH86EOitI/AAAAAAAABbw/n0T_azJzAjw/P‌​ure+Magazine+v1+screenshot.jpg" width="233px" height="185px"> like this
Sathya
Sathya
wrong site to ask.
HackToHell
HackToHell
oh yes
stackoverflow
 
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Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
14:52
Finally awake. Time to see if there's any good questions today..
Sathya
Sathya
15:03
none @SimonSheehan :p
 
1 hour later…
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
16:07
@Sathya Unfortunately nothing for me to answer so far today :( My rep hasn't moved much lately xD. Can't collect those +2's on edits either
but I enjoy doing other things with SU, and if a question comes along, I'll nab it ;)
Simon Sheehan
Simon Sheehan
16:20
I wonder how much less space my 3000 songs would take if I chose apples option to use AAC...
oh wow. half the space.
G+ app is also now available for iPhone
 
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Sathya
Sathya
18:25
with that, it's almost midnight & I'm off. Have a good one, all.

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