My regular commenter, Andra, keeps complaining that she is finding it difficult to register comments. Are any of you suffering similar difficulties? If so, please let me know because I will raise it with TypePad.
However, please note the following:
If you leave the 'Comments' box open for any time (say, more than 5 mins or so) it will automatically switch itself off, so to speak, and you will have to start again.
So, if you have written, or partially written, a comment and then you are interrupted, when you return to it the best thing to do is swipe and copy what you have written, hit the 'refresh' button, and then when the page re-appears with an empty 'Comments' box simply copy your comment back in. You will then need to click the space bar (or any other key) to activate the 'Comment' box.
Another possibility, because I am guilty of it myself, is that you write a comment, then copy the CAPTCHA code, but then, in your eagerness to read even more of Duff & Nonsense you click onto another page and forget to press 'Send'.
Incidentally, I do realise that the sight of me giving anyone lessons in the finer points of computer-techie-thingies is quite ludicrous! However, if you have problems let me know.
"My regular commenter, Andra, keeps complaining that she is finding it difficult to register comments. Are any of you suffering similar difficulties?"
Only in the sense that I am occasionally lost for words. When faced with articles which are so definitive, such jewel-like distillations of wisdom, it is the intellect which fails, rather than the software.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 12:38
I always said, 'W', that you were a man of taste and discernment!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 12:52
I have no problems. I sometimes find the CAPTCHA code a little difficult to read, but that's just decrepitude.
Posted by: A K Haart | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 20:08
Andra?
Anytime you're reading on D&N it's just like what the Air Captain's of British Airways warn before the flight - "Turn your electronics OFF!"
And yes Andra - Australian dildoes are most certainly electronics.
(Flight Engineer to Cap'n Duff --- Onboard communications are returned to the Captain's console. --- And sorry 'bout that warning of a water emergency landing --- doggone stewardess was fidgeting.)
Posted by: JK | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 20:34
JK: Puhleese!~
Posted by: Andra | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 23:31
Safest is just to write your comment elsewhere -- Word or Notepad or some such -- then paste it in all at once.
Posted by: Malcolm Pollack | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 06:04
See, that's what pisses me off with all this techie-thingie-stuff, it shows up one's total lack of intelligence! It never occurred to me to do what Malcolm suggested and type my posts in Word first. In that format the spell-checker is excellent so I wouldn't have to keep going back, sometimes days later, to correct embarrassing spelling mistakes - well, that's if I could be embarrassed at all these days. Well done, Malcolm, you have earned the first D&N Merit Badge of the year. And, JK, you are to return yours immediately for gross insubordination to Andra who wouldn't be seen dead with an Australian dildoe . . . Japanese, possibly, but Australian, never!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 09:36
Be careful using that spell-checker thingie David - especially with words like threw. Might make your "looking like it's, for good or bad" prognosticating isn't that sort of threw.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/17/10178071-palin-urges-sc-voters-to-support-gingrich-in-primary
Might lead some 'stead of going you your wise words to go with the ethnicity of "those electronics" take too looks.
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 16:12
ANDRA! I think JK needs some of your homely advice!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 16:24
"I think JK needs some of your homely advice!"
That, or your dildoe.
Posted by: Dom | Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 20:57
Frankly, I think JK needs a good smack on the bottom but he'd probably like that!
Posted by: Andra | Thursday, 19 January 2012 at 03:56
Why, thank you, David!
(I had a actually written a far longer comment just now, of coruscating brilliance and incalculable value to the technically challenged, but the comment-box whatsit reset itself or something and I lost it.)
Posted by: Malcolm Pollack | Thursday, 19 January 2012 at 05:38
Malcolm
...........AHA!!!!
See - it's not just me, Duff. And, as I recall, DM had the same problem a while ago.
Posted by: Andra | Thursday, 19 January 2012 at 06:09
Oh God, now I'm going to have to send a mesage to one of those gorgeous blondes in California who man the 'Help for Idiots' desk. And, no, I don't know for sure that they are either gorgeous or blonde but I like to think of them that way. Alas, I think they have a special bulletin board for my queries which, when I receive the more than obvious answer, I suspect reduces them to helpless giggles. However, I should warn you that sometimes I don't even understand the answers they send but that may say more about me than them. I will keep you posted.
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 19 January 2012 at 09:22