countertrolling's Journal: So.. What's up with the dollar?

Been dropping all last week.. Wonder if I'll reading about it all next week..

Somebody.. please.. help me find the old edit page Or at least something that lets me change the topic icon. http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=edit doesn't work anymore

I can stil edit journals

[tqft]

even if there are problems logging in
http://imgur.com/z6O4E,Dzkz0,BS0Lj [imgur.com]

there is a clear all fields option which might let your pick a different tag/topic icon

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[tqft]

2nd & 3rd images refer to editing je's. 1st image referred to login problem

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[tqft]

I was trying it with firefox (13 something ) which I don't normally use for /. to get the full default experience

New Crew, Same Old Crappy Methods

[damn_registrars]

The slashdot employee "PerlJedi" recently wrote a JE bragging about switching slashdot to the new system. I wrote a comment in the discussion on his JE asking him what happened to journal.pl; I gave specific examples of things that were easier with journal.pl and now either more difficult or outright impossible*.

Unsurprisingly, I received no response. Somehow this is supposed to be progress, I guess.

*I challenge you to find a way to display a list of all the journal entries that you (or any other sl

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[mcgrew]

Every change makes it worse. Google is doing the same thing, the page renders differently on each machine I use, and its results are turning to crap. Anybody know of a good SE that isn't Microsoft?

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[mcgrew]

Or different machines with the same browser. I'm running FF on both achines at home (kubuntu and Win7) and both render differently.

I know of no other place with the permanence of Slashdot. It's the only site I am aware of that etches the comments in stone, the way it should be.

All the stories, diaries, and comments I wrote back when I was at K5 are still there. Google "biters anonymous" and a diary I made about biting trolls comes up as the first or second hit, followed by a bunch about biting nails.