Reserving low, desirable UIDs for your cronies and lackies!

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. Shakespeare; King John

IS there an official language here or are people encouraged to post in which ever language they prefer?

Thanks so much for setting this up. It will be fun, I hope, to try to get some perspective on American versus European views on all this.

One thing I would strongly suggest is that some "guidance" be provided on the rating system. Somehow I suspect that some of these discussions could potentially get somewhat hot, and it would be nice if we could all resolve to play nice.

My personal rule is to rate highly diaries and comments that I find interesting, whether I agree with them or not. And if I find someone making a poor argument, or someone who looks like a troll, or someone who is clearly off in the tinfoil hat zone, I simply try to ignore them. Troll rating comments so quickly turns into a rating war that it should be, in my opinion, generally avoided.

Thank you for this rich new place, Jerome.

And I hope that your children will "guest blog" for us!  I'd love to hear from them.  And your wife too!

A "new window" link to Babelfish or some other translating site with different options would be good for people like me who are linguistically challenged (some French and that's about it). That way people could post in whatever language they wish. It would be difficult to carry on nuanced discussions, but would be better than nothing.
Oh, and thanks for starting this forum. It is badly needed.

Another window opened to the world. Thank you.

A fresh wind is beginning to blow here in the USA(well, a breeze so far) and open windows can only help to air out the place.

I will be a daily visitor and hope I can add something to the discussion.

Hello everyone!

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner -- James Bovard

Thanks for setting this site up... I've been wanting something like this to read, and from your excellent diaries on kos, I'm excited to see what this site is going to offer (plus what I can contribute).

Small suggestion: if you can make the text of your front page entries a bit smaller you're going to have a better "look" for the site.  Much like dailykos, bringing your font down to 10 pt is gonna give it just a touch of visual "class."  I've designed a few websites in my day, but take it or leave it.

Either way, I look forward to what's coming on this blog!!!

;)
kyle


uh huh me.

Congratulations to all who have worked on this - what a fine achievement! (I knew I should have stayed up for the grand opening last night - geez, I registered 12 hours after the site started up and I have UID #380)

Is there a resource to explain the specific affiliation with BT? I was interested to see that all the BT ads transferred over to this site.

Wishing you much success!

Mmm...smell that new Open Thread smell.

First day in, and the site hasn't crashed yet.  That's reason enough for me to stay.  Oh, and there's the whole thing with the brilliant writers and whatnot.  I'll stay for them, too.

when I could actually read the open thread.  You kossacks probably know what I mean.

Anyway, just would like to ask you guys what you think of Angela Merkel.  May start a diary on Germany later, but I would just like to hear whether Germans and those in the surrounding area think that the CDU's victory and Schroeder's loss is as inevitable as it looks from here, and whether she will be a catastrophe or actually what Germany needs.

From the rose garden of my local library, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

To thine ownself be true. W.S. CANADA

It's been amazing to watch the BoomanTrib explode in the last few weeks and I'm thrilled to see the momentum carrying over to the European Tribune.

Thanks to all of you who worked so hard to make this site a reality.

10:02:49 AM PDT (Pacific Day Time)
Is there any obvious reason why you don't use something like Central Europe (Summer) Time ?

checkin out my user ID...lol

How will I ever learn to juggle between orange, green, and blue?  Congratulations on a terrific start!  I like what I see!

First request:  modify your css to adhere to web standards to show recently visited pages with a different text color, and remove the red [!] from the recommended and recent diaries list.  This will save you server cycles, because you won't have to keep track of which diaries users have visited, as well as simplify the front page, making it more meaningful to more visitors (hardly anyone knows what [!} signifies, whereas almost everyone knows that a color difference shows an already visited link).

Currently your "visited" color is indistinguishable (to my eye anyway) from the unvisited color.  This can be fixed by using the hover color for visited color as well.  The bit of your css/main file that needs fixing is this.

a:visited {
 color: #3c4fa5;
}

If you adopt my suggestion, it should instead read

a:visited {
 color: #2b7df0;
}

for getting this rolling.

"...psychopaths have little difficulty infiltrating the domains of...politics, law enforcement, (and) government." Dr. Robert Hare

Thanks for adding this--- it should become an important annex to the  Kosuniverse

...to have this perspective. As aspiring expats (06-07 school year, we hope), we signed up immediately. Now all we need to do is find jobs so we can get over there.

¡No Pasarán!

I am on forums where I get some European viewpoints, and have always been interested in the "outside looking in" approach to the United States.  I'm looking forward to some interesting reading.  So Jerome and all, thanks for your work!

Andy

I'll post here.

Every time I click on a link at Booman Tribune it logs me out.  When I login, it takes me back to the main page and I have start to whole process over again.

weird server problems.

we have some seriously corrupted tables, including the currently recommended diaries, the table for who is logged on, and the table for what you've already visited.

We also may lose a few hours of data when we do the restore.  I apologize for this,  truly.  But we will get things back in working order soon.

test

Well I guess recent comments were lost too.  What things are going on, first the 'influx' and now this.  we will be patient dear Boo, but I just have to have someone to talk to, can't just go to bed, can I...

a band of wild revelers was spotted in the East Village:

Rumor had it that the mysterious Armando was among them, but no one would vouch for it.

La vie n'est de soi ni bien ni mal, elle est la place du bien et du mal selon que vous faites.

Seriously, nice work, Jerome.

Jerome, you were right about the cookies issue. I use
Firefox, but I had to change the security setting in
IE also. thanks for the assist.


What happened to my tail?

I posted this on the resources diary...but thought you would find this of interest (even though more a US issue), since you often write about the various "bubbles"...this article was posted (surprise, surprise) late Friday article Reuters, on the housing bubble crisis that you might find of note:
"Greenspan, regulators raise volume of housing alarm"

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=8760403

Maybe you saw it already...but wanted to make sure...seems ominous, though Greenspan is sugar coating words again...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

You guys/girls have done a great job.  It will be nice
to get the real European view on things.  And perhaps,
recover my very rusty French/German skills.
abientot   Robert

What happened to my tail?

Even the Swiss Radio, DR3, keeps playing news about Michael Jackson...alright already...though rumor has it he may move to Lichtenstein..

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia