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So why is Murdoc seeing so many search engine hits on this photo of a USMC Assault Breacher Vehicle firing a line charge?

A commenter tips Murdoc off to this story: Marines push ‘The Breacher’ against Taliban lines

I’ve made some more tweaks to the theme. The most noticeable is probably the return of the First Navy Jack to the upper right corner of the page.

Two user-requested features have been added, as well:

• The header area is now finally a link to the home page again.
• A new option to subscribe to comment threads is now available. If you check the box at the bottom of the comment form, you will get an email every time someone else leaves a comment on that post.

As usually, please let me know if you see any problems, and don’t be shy about giving me suggestions.

I’ve finally got “threaded” comments working on MO. This means that you can reply to a previous commenter by hitting the ‘reply’ link in that comment, and your comment will appear indented directly below it regardless of when you write it. This should help the discussions not get confused so easily.

I continue to work on the new theme, and hopefully it’s looking a bit better and more readable now.

Additionally, the comments area is now Gravatar-enabled, so if you have a Gravatar associated with your email account, it will show up. If you don’t have one, you can set one here.

Are they just not smart enough?

I am removing their search box. I’m sick of fixing their crap every time.

I emailed the affiliate program support and told them to hire a teenager if no one there knows how to write valid code.

Idiots.

MO is long overdue for a template overhaul. Unfortunately, Murdoc continues to be pressed for time, so he’s taken an intermediate step of installing an temporary upgrade.

This was designed using a template builder rather than the by-hand design I’ve used previously. Who has the time for that? Anyway, I’ll probably be playing with this a bit over the next few days until it seems stable and good.

If you have any issues, please do not hesitate to let me know.

I thought the old look was fine, but the new style is also good.

And yes, I realize that my sites are sort of jacked up on IE8, even in Compatibility View. I’m working on new templates for both MO and GunPundit. Hopefully, they’ll be ready shortly.

No e-mail. I hope I’m not missing anything important.

Hopefully this will be resolved tomorrow.

UPDATE: E-mail problems resolved, though it appears that some stuff may have been lost. Can’t tell for sure. If you sent Murdoc something important over the weekend (including Monday the 7th) please re-send it just to be sure.

Murdoc is on the road and posting may be a bit erratic.

Well, more erratic than usual.

Something’s wrong on Saturn 3.

UPDATE: Well, that pretty much sucked. Murdoc’s apologies for the interrupted service.

Everyone gets a full refund.

UPDATE 2: Well, it appears that, thanks to abysmal performance on my host’s file manager, Murdoc has managed to lose all the photos from the last several months. Lose as in gone forever. It’s going to be quite a project to get them re-uploaded and all the posts fixed unless there’s some way to retrieve them.

UPDATE 3: Well, it’s a bit of a long story, but I was trying to test something by cloning my site to a test directory. After the test I deleted the clone. Except that instead of COPYING the core files, I somehow MOVED them, meaning the “clone” was, in fact, my real site’s core files. However that happened, once I figured out what happened it was simply a matter of restoring the files I had deleted and moving them back to where they belonged.

Except that the new version of the File Manager doesn’t have a trash bin. The old one did, but the new one doesn’t. I’ve been mystified about why the “new and improved” v3 has no restore functionality when v1 and v2 did, but after contacting support I’ve figured out how this is an improvement.

For a fee, they’ll restore my files.

Ba$tard$.