Our awesome programmer, Todd Spurlock, removed the code module on the commenting part of the site. Hopefully, the blog won’t be attacked by robots now, but this *should* solve the problems with leaving comments. It still runs on the slow side, but it seems to work now.
Please let me know if this is working.
It’s working fine and since the 24th have been able to enter 13 poems so far. My only question is when is the DEADLINE for completing this months poems.
Yep, everything posts first time out no problemo for me too, awesome possum! Thanks guys!
Why is everyone afraid of robots. I keep thinking of an attack of the killer robots!
Thank you. Due to my schedule this week I was unable to enter my input into the posting situation, but believe me it has been a nightmare. Thank you so much for all attempts to fix it. Now, just to get caught up!!
Exhaustion
How can I be exhausted
when there are no codes?
The cork is off the bottle.
Well here’s a try at getting through on one attempt. Although I am very grateful if the computer wizard solved the mystery, I find myself with a bit of ill ease. I grew accustom to how I submitted comments and poems to the comment section.
I admit I took many times when I had to submit the code a second, third, fourth, or fifth time, to review the submission. I found sometimes I saw something in review that I had not seen before, a corner or edge I had not thought of that was better with the words on the page. I rewrote, sometimes three and four times to look closer at what I found.
Now that the posting is fixed I will no longer be able to use this option in this manner. I will want to reorganized. Not the worst project, but I will miss the opportunity to rewrite at the last minute…
Well. Now we will see how this works.
and I’m back 🙂
Exhaustion circa 2004
Swing by
Come on by
What are you waiting for?
But once we get close enough
You stop
Just stop
Stop coming around
And once again
It is always
Always, always
Always on me
I don’t bother you
Tell you how I disagree with what you do
I do what I can
Sorry it doesn’t satisfy
No one gives me a hard time when I’m unhappy
It is then that I can truly be apart of the herd
And be heard; and absurd
-ly be
Good company
To me
That’s not very funny
New things find their way into my life
And I become better off than I was
Because I can smile ear to ear
Without fear
To me
That’s the place to be
However others don’t agree
I’m so sorry
That I cannot accompany
I don’t need to be
Clubbing or
Fucking all the time.
Spending my last dime.
———————
Exhaustion circa now
The kid is still awake
do we know why
do we have an answer.
No.
The kid
The kid is still awake.
She’s awake because
of her past.
She’s trying to
outrun it
while simultaneously
embrace it.
That’s a bit tiring,
wouldn’t you say?
The kid is still awake
because of her future.
She’s trying to find it
while not knowing where
to look.
That’s rather exhausting,
wouldn’t you say?
The kid is still awake
The kid is still awake
Don’t tell her she
should be sleeping.
She’s trying to purge her memories
while simultaneously trying
to relive them.
That’s a little infuriating.
Wouldn’t you say?
Thanks, Robert and Todd. I got in on the first try! Thank you so much! <3
Robert and Todd,
It’s working now from my laptop — many thanks.
On Linux using Firefox (from my office) however, comments never load ..
On Windows, loaded with no hitch,
On Linux, somewhere there’s a glitch
in browser, network, don’t know which.
Debugging software is a bitch.
On my laptop, my delight,
it loaded with delay, so slight,
on Linux waited half the night,
but finally I gave up the fight.
I’ll post my comments from my house
and not from work, and I won’t grouse.
I’ve other software fires to douse.
I’ll be a quiet as a mouse.
Dear Robert & Todd
I see Janet’s nod
and THANK YOU for
not making it so hard (if you have a little Boston accent it works..I
don’t but one can imagine>..)
THANK YOU for the effort and the result.. it is delightful to have the challenge refer to the poetic rather than the posting effort.. although as others brought up I attempted to see it as a Universal challenge to patience and ‘going with … or perhaps more accurately waiting to be able to g with the flow"
Bottom line IT WORKS AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE PERSONAL NOTE AS WELL…lovely, unexpected and appreciated.
Best to you and yours
PKP
Love the change! Still moves a bit slow but it is posting the first time. Wonderful! Thanks, Robert and Todd . . . I give you both a nod! 🙂
Long-Ass Days
Long-ass days
as my father
used to call them,
days full of
graceful sunclouds
boiling tears
serving others
and undeserved laughter
and every night
I lay myself down
to recharge my batteries,
but as with
all batteries
as they age,
my batteries aren’t
holding their
charge so long.
So
in between
the morning alarm
and the last
consciousness
there is so much
to do –
more than can be done
or even listed
in a day.
So, it’s not a
complaint
but rather just a note
of gratitude
for the privilege
of another
long-ass day,
as my supply
of them
sadly and
predictably
dwindles.
Now,
to add to my exhaustion
I must post this poem
before
midnight.
Bless you, Todd. – moskowitz
Thank you ,Robert and Todd..posted in seconds flat!!!!!
I am in shock but it is a pleasant shock…;)
very much appreciated
and warmly applauded
NaaPoWriMo #23
A BIG thanks to Todd and Robert for wiping out that draconian code. The posts going up on the first get-go is like dipping a knife into soft butter. Better than butting this head against bricks!
That said, I’m with Amy on the slow PA page load…that last 10% of the load is a bruiser…reminds me of the last stages of labor, but I don’t expect you guys to understand that connection.
Cheers, and thanks again! <3
Robert and Todd, thank you so much!
Marie, the best thing to ward off robots is excellent virus protection… for my money, Webroot has been fantastic. It’s a huge hit with us geeks.
Robert and Todd, FYI (and this is not a complaint, not after all your hard work, just an FYI), the page itself, the PA home page and any comment pages thereafter are slow to load. I have Windows 7, Gateway, all sorts of widgets and I’m a former network admin… plus high-speed connection. The PA page is the only page on my browsing that has taken a full minute. Seems to be 90% open at once, then lingers on "www.idcomment.com" or whatever that site is. Finally, that last sliver opens and I’m golden.
Same with opening page after commenting… the comment takes first time, but the page itself is slow. Maybe it’s just my puter… but anyway, thanks again!
LOL, WALT!
Todd and Robert: THANKS A TON!!
I would think the need to enter a name and valid e-mail address would ward off robots as well … wouldn’t it?
Bravo! Great to get on first try. Thanks much, Todd.
It works! Wow! Now to transfer to the forum.
Exhausted
Too tired to fall asleep
Body aching, mind racing
trying to get comfortable
mission imposible
Too much on the mind can put
too much strain on the body.
Cool …. It works!!!
Wowsers! No more robot frisking?! Mixed emotions here…like Joseph said I sometimes liked the funky coincidences that popped up in code! But I’m more glad than sad…although it really did help me to build up my patience levels. Overall its a good thing though, calming the masses. I’m mostly teasing or speaking from a place of good fun! Any way…happy writing and farewell psycho picky robot code! Oh, and thanks for fixing it Todd and Robert!!
Yay!!! It went through on the first try. Going to try posting my poem now.
Thank you so much Robert and Todd for thinking of us and fixing the comment posting! I can’t wait to post something. I couldn’t even get my comments that didn’t have poems posted.
I’ll admit I will miss the amusing alphanumeric strings that can sometimes come out of those codes. But yeah, this will probably make life much easier, so thanks! ^_^
It’s nice not to have to type in the codes. I just posted two poems from my school computer, which has a fast connection. It seemed to take a long time for them to post, but they posted on the first try. I fear, though, that on my dial up connection at home there may still be problems. Sometimes from my home computer it would take me up to two hours to post a poem, even when I typed the codes in correctly. All in all, it’s still been fun!
ARRRGHHH! Robert, I meant Robert!
These digits are gonna get me in trouble.
Of course, my fat fingers meant to say Todd.
You understand, don’t you Boob?
Lets do the math:
Seven to twelve poems a day
times seven to eleven attempts
per poem…
on second thought, you do the math.
Saves me a lot of wasted motion.
Robert and Tood, you da man(s)!
Go Todd!
Yay! It seems to be working!
WOW! Robert: It went through on the first no-code try and that’s a first! Thanks to Todd, too.
Thank you so very much – and that’s for ALL you do.
Just signed into FB to see whats going on with posting PAD – have been posting PADs on my new blog. One of my PADs posted fine on the PAD comments section early on then nothing but troubles. deborahh q.com is my primary e mail. My WD user name is nana girl and I’ve had it for over a year, posting often in the Critique section. My alternate e mail is a google mail account. I apologize for rambling and this might be TMI. Sincerely, Deborah Hansen
Thanks Todd! Thanks Robert!
We all appreciate your efforts in helping us share our writings with each other. This is a GREAT supportive community.