what the fuckity fuck is this?

Mistress MJ has been busy with a number of projects that require her full attention, leaving precious little time to blog.



I have some free time today so I decided to get caught up with what YOU Bitches have been doing by logging into my current feed reader, "Feedly." (Remember when I had to replace Google Reader with Feedly? *sigh*)

So I tried to log into Feedly, only to have a pop-up window appear, saying that I must log in to Feedly by creating a public Google Plus profile.

Feedly is now using Google+ as their unifying identity system. (Article about it here.)

But wait! Apparently, we have choices...

"We also understand that some people would prefer to have more identity choices. So we have been testing twitter, facebook and wordpress login options. We will be rolling them out over the next 7 weeks."

Well, I don't HAVE a Twitter account, a Facebook account or a Wordpress account so that leaves me up Shit Creek, does it not?

Mistress MJ does not have time for this shit.

Infomaniac is temporarily closed until further notice.


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Note: Use of the word "fuckity" attributed to Infomaniac Bitch and Belfast's greatest waiter, Manuel.

UPDATE: For those who find I’m talking gibberish, FEEDLY is a service which organizes your favorite web sites and blogs into a magazine-like page. It enables you to read all the updates of your fave blogs without having to click on each blog to see if someone has updated their blog.

 

Blog Advice Wanted

Mistress MJ wants your advice, Bitches.

I'm helping "a friend" create a blog.


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As you know, I'm no technical wizard so this is rather like the blind leading the blind.

He wants to create a blog to showcase his photographs and he wants to use BLOGGER.

My question to you Bitches is this:

What template can he use so that his photographs appear LARGE?

As you know, on my blog, you often have to click on a photo to enlarge it. That's because if I use the "original size" button or even the "X-Large" option under "Choose a layout," part of the photo isn't visible, possibly(?) because the margins of my blog aren't wide enough to accommodate a big photo. Honestly, I don't know why. Anyhoo...

I'll give you an idea of what we're looking for. Have a look at the photos on this post, created by our Princess. They're big, bold and beautiful...much like Prinny herself! That's the look we're going for.

Can you help a Bitch out with suggestions?


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Note: He will be loading the photos to his Blogspot blog from his personal computer and doesn't want to use a photo storing/image hosting programme such as Photobucket, etc. And he's not  interested in Tumblr or any option other than Blogger. He simply wants BIG photos on a Blogspot blog.

The Redundant Variety Hour is Back!

Jump for joy!


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Thombeau's REDUNDANT VARIETY HOUR is back!

Celebrating the Golden Age of the Television Variety Hour ... for better or worse!

Celebrating the Golden Age of the Television Variety Show

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Divas, dancers, glamour and glitz! An entertainment extravaganza spectacular! Costumes! Choreography! Camp!

“The Redundant Variety Hour” has it all!

When’s the last time you visited and joined in on the mirth and merriment?

Your host is our very own Thombeau so CLICK IT, Bitches!

READER TESTIMONIALS:

"safety gays!", "unfeasibly tight trousers!", "tacky Italian television!"
- Jon

How to Get Follow-Up Comments Notification on Blogger

Mistress MJ goes away for a couple of days and comes back to find the Blogger comment box has changed.

There used to be a box that you could tick to indicate that you wanted to receive email notification of follow-up comments. And now it’s gone!

So I emailed Mr. LX: "Personal IT Consultant to Mistress MJ," who sorted it out for me.

Do you have a Blogger blog and want your readers to be able to receive follow-up comments notifications?

Then here’s what to do …

To retain the e-mail notification, follow these steps in this order from your Blogger Dashboard:

Blogger > Settings > Comments > Comment Form Placement > Embedded below post

Then remember to click “SAVE SETTINGS” at the bottom!

Instead of a little box to tick, you’ll now see the words “Subscribe by email” under your comments box. Your readers can click on “Subscribe by email” if they want follow-up comments to appear in their email inboxes.

If you have any problems with this, leave a comment for us here on this post. Mr. LX and Mistress MJ are standing by to help. However, after 3:00 p.m. it seems that both Mr. LX and Mistress MJ will be out for the evening. So if you visit here after 3 pm Eastern time, leave a comment anyway and we'll get back to you on Thursday.

Good luck!

UPDATE: HELP YOURSELVES TO A DRINK!

Introducing “The Forgotten Musical!”

Those in the know have visited Thombeau’s recently created blog, The Redundant Variety Hour, celebrating the golden age of television variety shows.

Are you Bitches ready for more fabulosity?

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Mae West and Timothy Dalton in “Sextette”

Thombeau has started a sister site featuring song-and-dance extravaganzas of the silver screen.

Visit The Forgotten Musical…Musical Madness from Hollywood to Bollywood...and beyond!

Humor Blogs

Surely you’re wondering why Mistress MJ spelled “Humour” without the “u.” It is because this post is written by our AMERICAN friend, Ms. First Nations. Listen up, Bitches. Ms. Nations has a request to make of you…

So I just dumped a humor blog I've been reading for the past 4 years. It started out funny. It turned into the whiny ranting of an aging, bitter conservative with shit taste in music. Of course I mean Infoman...Of course I mean the Vest Wirginia Rurf Seport. Not Infomaniac. Heavens no.

Might any of you rubicund, silky, adorable Bitches be able to recommend a new daily humor blog?

One that would better suit my discriminating tastes; i.e racist dead baby nudity, anarcho-syndicalism with robots, drugs, naked sex, tiny cars, naked Socialists, totally naked gardening advice, baby Jesus, armed hipsters, penises, baking, Spirit of '67 skins, rednecks, Harvey Pekar, Nyarlathotep, elderly African-American men playing electric guitars, naked nakedness, leather jackets, motorcycles, Jazz, Electronica, Metal, Blues, naked, smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey out the neck of the bottle, Brazilian women, and tacos.


Note from Mistress MJ: This clip shows Ms. Nations on a GOOD day …

Introducing “The Redundant Variety Hour!”

From the man who brought you Planet Fabulon and Chateau Thombeau and Form is Void comes….drum roll please…

THE REDUNDANT VARIETY HOUR!

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The fabulous Thombeau brings you MORE of the fabulosity you expect from him as he celebrates the golden age of television variety shows.

See Dalida, Miss Mitzi Gaynor, Tom Jones, Mama Cass, The Lennon Sisters, Carol Channing, Petula Clark, Herb Alpert, Bea Arthur and MORE on The Redundant Variety Hour!

Divas, dancers, glamour and glitz! An entertainment extravaganza spectacular! Costumes! Choreography! Camp!

This blog has it ALL!

Where else are you going to find Bette Midler, Cher and Elton John all on stage TOGETHER? With a bonus Flip Wilson!...

Click it, Bitches!

Meet Mrs. Smith-Standish

You are cordially invited to drop in on Mrs. Edwin (Martha) Smith-Standish of Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Tell her that Mistress MJ sent you.

“I’m A Filthy Fucker”

So says our Mr. Cookie on his new blog “I’m A Filthy Fucker.”

Check it out because you know what?

He is!

Click here, bitches.

Blogging Tips and Tricks

Ever wondered how to add a blogroll to your blog?

Or how to increase the size of the font?

Or change the colour of the font?

Or how to add assorted gadgets and widgets?

Months ago I wanted to add an avatar to my Profile but didn’t know how. Everybody had an avatar but me!

So I put the question to you bitches and the result is the stripey legs you see everytime I leave a comment…



You taught me how to do it! (Special thanks to Old Knudsen).

Yesterday, Eroswings taught us how to italicize a comment. Try it yourself if it’s something new to you…

1. TYPE <>
(DO NOT HIT SPACE BAR! Just follow next step)
4. TYPE word(s) to be italicized (AND DO NOT HIT SPACE BAR! There should be NO SPACE after the last word you want italicized. Just follow next step)
5. TYPE <>
9. CLICK Preview button to see if it worked. CLICK Publish if happy.
10. If you want to use bold, just follow the same steps, except replace i with b.

Eroswings has more basic HTML tagging tips here, if you’re interested.


So what can the rest of you teach us?

Tell us about some of your fave blogging tips or tricks.

Or feel free to ask questions and see if someone can answer your query.

Banter back and forth here throughout the day about what tricks you’ve employed successfully or what you’d like to learn.

Share your knowledge and make us all better blogging bitches!

Your Favourite Post

Once upon a time, you must have written a post that you like above all the others.

Rummage about in your blog archives for your favourite post.

Then email the link to that post to MJ. (Email address is in my Blogger Profile.)

Once a week, depending on my mood and the tides, I’ll shine the spotlight on an Infomaniac reader’s fave blog post so that all of us may be blessed in reading your creative output.

I’m sure you’re all dying to know what my fave post is so click here to read it. (Shockingly, it’s safe for work.)

Now go and dig through your archives.

The first of these posts will appear this Saturday, April 26th so quit stalling and send me your links NOW.

Blogger’s Blunder

Type your complaint to Blogger today!



Blogger.com has changed their comment forms.

Non-Blogger account holders can no longer comment on Blogger blogs leaving their URL.

So if you are a non-Blogger.com blogger (e.g. WordPress or TypePad), Blogger has disabled your ability to leave your URL when you leave a comment.

You can type in your name, but your URL won’t appear unless you open one of the following: an OpenID account, a Google account, a Blogger account … or take the time to manually type in your URL in the comment field.

And if someone new (say their name is “Joe”) comments on my blog without a Blogger account, I can’t check out Joe’s blog because there’s no link to his blog. So I’m left scratching my head wondering if I already know “Joe” or if “Joe” is a psychopath who has decided my blog is the place to be.

This new unsolicited feature could cause many of us to lose readers and prevent new readers from commenting.

Case in point: Yorkshire’s favourite poofs, Tazzy and Piggy.






Tazzy and Piggy are two of Infomaniac’s oldest and dearest readers but they don’t use Blogger.com to host their blog.

Taz and Pig are no longer leaving comments on my blog (or IVD’s blog or Frobi’s blog or Kaz’s blog or several others amongst us) because if they do, their URL is not attached.

For a clearer picture of this issue than the one I’m relating, read Tazzy and Piggy's stance on it here in “What the fuck is up with Blogger?”.


Needless to say, this breaks my heart as Tazzy and Piggy are an important part of Infomaniac’s community and without them, blogging will not be as pleasurable.





Sure, I could switch to a Wordpress account or I could change my comments to use Haloscan but I don’t want to.

This new feature will alienate our friends who are not Blogger.com bloggers and we’ll all suffer a loss of community.

Long story shorter, Blogger needs to hear from any and all of us who have issues with this latest change.

Please join me in voicing your opinion to Blogger here.

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