Grown-up
missycola @ 4:43 pm Kategorie: BloggingThanks for the first five people who voted for my blog’s language. People who know me are invited to write their vote additionally in the comments. That would be easier for me to see, if the voting is from (only) new visitors or from friends/returning readers.
Anyway, I use this entry to thank Mr. telekommander for his repeated effort helping me with technical blog software problems. Last time he helped me with getting rid of validation errors and getting the right css for my search form in the header (so that there is click-safe area). This time he could solve my problems with the weird white space that I had under my blog posts always when I posted photos. It was a tiny code line from my gallery plugin that caused it. The same code line in another of my plugins, the subscribe-to-comments plugin, caused lots of white space under the comment form. The whole white space problem could only be seen with the Firefox browser, but it was getting on my nerves, a lot. I don’t like weird code happenings. I’m a perfectionist. You know. I would have never find the bad code by myself, I guess. For nerds: It was the "clear:both" line in the css. Thanks for your help, telekommander. He is one of the very nice helping guys in the wordpress.de forum.
During my time searching for (more) code improvement in my blog I found out that, since I upgraded to the new Internet Explorer version 7, my smileys in the comments form still aren’t clickable. 
I don’t think that my few comment writers don’t really care about using smileys (ok, except for maudchen, sorry hon’). I know that there are as many smiley haters as lovers, but when I visit other blogs, I mostly don’t like the blog owner’s usage of smileys. It’s often too much. You might think I’m strange, because I often used smileys (I’d say only the beautiful ones, hehe). Honestly, I think they are only used to show the writers feeling or if the writing was ironic or not. I thought, well, not long until I’m thirty, maybe I should stop with expressing my mood with these (cute,funny,annoying) face-icons. It will clear up my text (some of you will find it boring) and the page load is a little bit better. I think I can express everything I want to say without smileys 
And to show my mood (if I want to), I now have myMood at the end of every post anyway.
Wow, I cannot believe that I wrote this. Poor poor happy waving smiling jumping kissing little things…You’re banned from fool around here. I’m grown-up now. Unfortunately. Always childish inside. Psst.
5 comments to “Grown-up”
I’m trying to find the right Words about this entry. But i give up. Still no-one has used an entry to thanks to me.I was really surprised.
A few description-words about the “clear”-definition you find it in the WP-Forum.
Btw.: Stay in english.
thomas | 5.November 2006 at 3:59 pm
@maudchen: I didn’t mean that you’re a crazy user, sorry if I wrote it mistakable. I just meant that you (compared to other friends) liked my smileys, or at least the whistling one. You are the first guest who wrote sth. positive about the smileys. They won’t come back. I already uninstalled them. Oops. By the way, you don’t have the yellow creatures on (at? in?) your blog :P
@thomas: You’re welcome! Nice to read from you here 
And thanks for your voting…interesting that you, as German, vote for English. Cool.
Nee - keine gelben Dinger in meinem Blog. Ich bin mehr für die :o) und :o( und ;o) ich denke, dass reicht an Variationen um etwas zu unterstreichen und macht es einfacher für den Leser den/das/der MOOD zu erkennen ohne über sarkasmus NACHDENKEN! zu müssen. :o) but still - the whistling one was cool.
Na siehste, bei mir gibt’s ja wenigstens auch noch die Zeichensprache. Ich muss die :o) :P < :x) 
etc. jetzt erstmal (wieder) üben…oder ich guck sie bei Dir ab, hö! Meine sister sagte auch schon mit trauriger Miene, ich hätte so besonders schöne smileys gehabt…well, what can you do? LG nach SYD.
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Hang on a sec!! I’m not a crazy smiley user!!! No I’m not! I just thought the one was cool! Well and now a crying one would come in handy to show my mood!! But they are gone. You have banned them - poor little creatures. That’s rather mean. I hope somewhere out there is a “save-the-smiley-but-don’t-overuse-them” commission.
maudchen | 5.November 2006 at 4:34 amMy best friend (she refuses to use them at all - just told me that she stopped writing e-mails with a bloke she actually liked because he was, according to her, using them in every sentence TWICE. Well - I think that is understandable. But from time to time… sometimes… Come on - don’t be to grown up! :o)