Coloring Your Own Roller Blog Comments

Somebody was asking today on our internal blog users alias, on how they could color their own comments to make them stick out more. Seems that this is a built-in feature for WordPress. Here's an example (see comment #11).

GreaseMonkey to the rescue. If you are running Firefox and have GreaseMonkey installed, then install this script.

Unfortunately this isn't one of those script's that'll "just work". Each blog owner is going to have to customize it for their blog. There are two lines to change:

• Change richb on this line:

        @include     http://blogs.sun.com/richb/*
        

  to be the name of your blog.

• Change Rich Burridge on this line:

        var userName = "Rich Burridge";
        

  to be the user name that is automatically inserted in the comment form for you by the roller software.

Now (hopefully), when you display one of your blog entries and there are comments by you, then you should see them with a light blue background and black text. If somebody can come up with some better CSS (which shouldn't be too hard), then they need to just adjust these lines:

        div.style.backgroundColor = "CEEBEB";
        div.style.color = "black";

But this was a thirty minute hack so that's what you get for a first version.

Hopefully a future version of the roller software will have a feature that just does this automatically.

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( Nov 19 2007, 09:02:41 PM PST ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [5]

Ubuntu 32 Bit Fixes Three Problems

Last Friday I decided to replace the 64 bit version of Ubuntu Gutsy that was installed on my Ferrari 3400 laptop, with the 32 bit version. I burned a CDROM of the ISO image and did a complete fresh install.

I had some fun getting the xorg.conf working again for my Samsung SyncMaster 215TW external screen, with an optimum resultion of 1680 x 1050 (System->Administration->Screens and Graphics just couldn't auto-generate something useful), but that's now working, and since then I've found some interesting things:

• The clock is no longer getting out of sync by about 15 minutes a day

• I have a Java plugin and can therefore listen to my Answerline voicemail without having to go to another machine (or boot another operating system on this one). I see that that bug has been open for almost 5 years now and has gained 620 votes. One can only hope it'll be fixed soon.

• I no longer have to jump through hoops to get something like Flash working.

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( Nov 19 2007, 03:11:24 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [6]