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The Other Side

Mr.Rattitude — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:33:49 +0000

We have been successfully transferred to our new hosting service.

From beginning to end, it was about 20 hours, give or take an hour. The servers are roomier, and faster, too. It was also a pleasant surpise to see a long forgotten feature of the RatChatter.com forums appear, the spell checker. Thanks HostGator!

As one of the RatChatter members said, “see you on the other side.” Well, here we are. Welcome to the other side.

The Year of the Stainless Steel Rat?!

Mr.Rattitude — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:13:09 +0000

The current Year of the Rat is coming to a close on January 25, 2009.

This is the Year of the Earth Rat, and the next Year of the Rat, the Metal Rat, will occur in the years 2020-2021. Now that is a long time to wait to celebrate this great little animal with its own year. I propose we do not wait that long.

I am suggesting we celebrate the rat every year. It’s a remarkable pet, and to quote the most recent wiki:

Being the first sign of the Chinese zodiac, rats are leaders, pioneers and conquerors. They are charming, passionate, determined, tenacious, charismatic, practical and hardworking.

Personally, those are traits I would like to find in most anyone I meet; and, I am thrilled my grandson was born in the Year of the Rat. It’s also no wonder rats steal their keeper’s hearts in no time at all, my grandson stole mine.

In preparation for the next Year of the Rat, or just as a good excuse, may I recommend reading the series written by Harry Harrison, about The Stainless Steel Rat. I have read and enjoyed some of the series and intend to go looking for the rest.

Have you read any of The Stainless Steel Rat? Why not leave a comment with your review.

Rattitude on Widgets

Mr.Rattitude — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:55:20 +0000

OK, I broke down and took a look at using widgets. Yes, it was painful, but in the end it was worth it, even if was for nothing else but the added aesthetic value.

The reason to get widgetized, was rather simple, I wanted to make use of a great plugin, WP-dTree by Ulf Benjaminsson, that apparently is only usable as a widget. I’m quite happy with the new category menu, and the new archives/monthly menu. I am also very happy with the pages menu which is what I wanted to “fix”. It wasn’t broken really, but it did need a certain something and the collapsible menu is just what it was.

Now that we are using widgets, what do you think? Drop us a comment and let us know.

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MobilePress plug-in added

Mr.Rattitude — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:13:24 +0000

I came across an interesting “new” plug-in for Rattitude.com named MobilePress. I like the way it looks on my iPod Touch, very clean and simple in its default format; and, it doesn’t affect the standard web browser display!

Currently, when browsing with a mobile such as a cell phone or iPhone/iPod Touch the recent posts are listed first then the pages below.

Let me know with a comment how this looks on your mobile device.