Archive for the ‘Site Related Crap’ Category

Better Discussion on HLS

Earlier this year when we unleashed hell the new look and feel of HLS on our readers, the response was mostly positive, but there were a few glitches (I’m looking at you, dude who keeps visiting with a 800×600 screen and Internet Explorer 5). The biggest, to me, was that the commenting system just [...]

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We’ve Reverted the Comment System

In case you fell in love with our IntenseDebate comment system, sorry. I’ve shut it off. Over the few days it’s been running, I’ve grown more and more uncomfortable with the feeling that some other entity has control over our comments.
I’ll work on pretty-ing up the main Wordpress commenting system instead. If [...]

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Bracketitis III: It’s Chronic!

Hey-O Conscripts!
It’s that time of year again! Time for us all to discuss our brackets with co-workers as we pretend we’ve been watching college basketball for more than the last 2 weeks. And what better way to show off all that now-ledge than to sign up and play in Her Loyal Sons Bracketitis III!?
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Got Pictures?

One of the constant struggles of blogging, particularly low-income blogging where we only make enough off the ads to pay for hosting and then maybe a few slurpies is finding Notre Dame images on the web that we can use without getting sued infringing on the rights of the owners of said images. So [...]

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Look Who’s #17!

In case you forgot to make your picks last week, don’t worry. I remembered, and I’m still right in the middle of the pack.

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Follow Biscuit On Gameday

Due to logistics out of our control, there will be no gameday chat today. Feel free to chat away on the sidebar to the right to your hearts content, but do also check in on our Twitter account, as Biscuit streams every random, drunken thought he has today.
Enjoy, and Go Irish!

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HLS Sells Out

Yeah, okay, so we’ve decided to be sell outs. We’ve added advertising to the site. For the 4 of you who read the blog with regularity before this year, you can now moan and groan to all your friends who only recently started reading us and have conversations like this:
Friend: “Hey, have you heard [...]

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Does The Site Look Weird To You?

If it does, and by “look weird,” I mean, “the logo is all screwed up, with a white or gray background, and everything is misaligned,” then it’s time to upgrade your browser.
We’re not going to radically change the look and feel of the site, but we’re going to evolve a few things. The more [...]

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