Retro-style Cif Comments Can Again Be Yours!

19 Responses to Retro-style Cif Comments Can Again Be Yours!

1. MadameMax says:

   February 23, 2013 at 7:15 am

   I have done this plug-in thingy and not only did my computer not explode but it’s actually pretty cool. If you choose to have comments shown by timestamp, you can scroll down and if you find something interesting where you want to see replies, you just click on “show thread” and then you see a page only with the original comment and its nest. The only problem for me is that when I click “show everything” to go back to the timestamp view, it takes me to a different place on the page from where I was. But the comment I clicked on is highlighted so it’s not too hard to find one’s place by scrolling down again.

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2. Bluthner says:

   February 23, 2013 at 7:56 am

   Thank you Nat for pointing that out. I tried to download it but…. nothing doing. I think all my hardwares & softwares are too creaky & cobwebby & old.

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3. NatashaFatale says:

   February 23, 2013 at 8:24 am

   Bluth,

   Dunno how anything but the age of your Firefox browser could make a difference. It’s just a plug-in, like any other (software-wise, I mean).

   That is to say, it’s nothing like the Be Your Own ABL Moderator ™ app currently under development here at Fatale Labs. That’s the one everyone has been waiting for. Beta testing has been ever so promising: already I’ve taken six or eight serious articles about European monetary policy and such, and turned them into vapid musings on whether all sex is rape or whether we should even try to cure autism (you wouldn’t believe the things I’ve made GG say). Watch this space for further announcements!

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4. Bluthner says:

   February 23, 2013 at 8:47 am

   Nat,

   Well that explain a lot.

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5. Bluthner says:

   February 23, 2013 at 8:49 am

   Sorry, I mean your secret ABL Moderator®.

   Yes, my problem is outdated Firefox. But if I try to update Firefox flips me a bird and tells me I’m not good enough, or young enough, or cool enough or something.

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6. NatashaFatale says:

   February 23, 2013 at 9:15 am

   Bluth,

   Well, I’m not going to be the one to suggest that you upgrade your operating system (which is to leap, not step, into the world of Unintended Consequences). I will observe that we wouldn’t have planned obsolescence if God didn’t want us to, but somehow I doubt that you’re open to conversion. But (as Someone insists that I point out) this doesn’t mean you’re not cool. It means that you’re willing to pay the price of true coolness, which (and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise) is the one truly unforgivable sin.

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7. Di-Ohso says:

   February 23, 2013 at 10:49 am

   I use Google, [I know, I know] and use the ‘fix’…It certainly helps.

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8. Squirrel says:

   February 23, 2013 at 2:53 pm

   Ugh. Me too. I’m retro-cool. My G5 can’t use these new firefoxes either. But, I remind myself, there are other ways to spend the squirrel time profitably than reading (let alone replying to) comments (nested, formed, earthed, dreyed or whatever).

   What struck me of course, is if some bright person can concoct a Firefox plug-in to do it, why can’t the Guardian’s IT people do it?

   (Answers on a postcard in not more than 144 characters; about 124 of which may be $&^!@* of course.)

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9. NatashaFatale says:

   February 23, 2013 at 3:26 pm

   Dear Squirrel. Having a wonderful time. IT staffs are 36% Management and spend 89.4% of their time in meetings. I mean, $&^!@* Management and $&^!@*$&^!@*$&^!@* meetings. The Palazzo Vecchio is lovely. Wish you were here. Ciao.

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10. Expat says:

    February 23, 2013 at 4:25 pm

    Unless the Palazzo Vecchio is the name of a hotel in Vegas I hope that you are enjoying Venice.

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11. NatashaFatale says:

    February 24, 2013 at 7:44 am

    Expat,

    Not really. What with the flooding in Venice and all, the Palazzo Vecchio has floated all the way to Florence.

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12. Bluthner says:

    February 24, 2013 at 8:41 am

    The Palazzo Vecchio is many things, certainly, and seems to be in many places as well, but it is not by any stretch of the imagination lovely!

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13. NatashaFatale says:

    February 24, 2013 at 9:58 am

    Bluth,

    Really? I’ll be the first to admit that Ghirlandaio’s frescos don’t rise to the standard of Banksy, and the Michelangelos are definitely over the top, even for him, but surely you’ll grant that Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes achieves a certain pedestrian grace…

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14. Bluthner says:

    February 24, 2013 at 11:58 am

    Natasha,

    I will grant all that and more. I thought it was the building to which you referred, which always seems to me to have been designed specifically to exude an extremely unlovely warning about brute power and unquestionable might.

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15. Di-Ohso says:

    February 24, 2013 at 12:28 pm

    Okay: Who nicked our Banksy, and tried to sell it in Miami?

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16. NatashaFatale says:

    February 24, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    Bluth,

    I see. I have given the impression that I see loveliness only in externals. I see. You will forgive a momentary pause: this is a painful understanding you impose, and with so little warning…

    Recovering somewhat, I will say this: I believe the building was designed for precisely the purpose you suppose. It represented the ouster of the Ghibellines (in the persons of the treacherous Uberti family) from Florence and a warning to them to stay away for good; a little sternness in such a pursuit is surely understandable. We owe much of subsequent and appreciated-even-by-me surface beauty of Florence to its success.

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17. NatashaFatale says:

    February 24, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    Di,

    Some descendant of Lord Elgin, perhaps?

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18. Bluthner says:

    February 24, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Natasha,

    The shallowness is all mine. I never even considered the interior. All surfaces, me.

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19. Expat says:

    February 24, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    At least you didn’t place it in the wrong city Bluth.

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