I know this looks peculiar, but at least we can communicate. After 24 hours of backing up (in every sense of the word), we’re back online. Now the heavy lifting begins. At least you can use the link below to go to the current strips, as usual. I cannot stress enough that nothing you see here is as it will be, so please reserve your judgement until the true redesign is well underway. However, I would welcome your suggestions for the future arloandjanis.com, either via Facebook or comments here. (Just click on the “Replies” link below.)
40 responses to “And away we go…”
Good Luck, Jimmy. I certainly hope you do better than Harry.
you can do it, Jimmy!
Finger crossed!
Based on my wife’s experience when changing her website. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Valentine’s Day.
For those of us that have been here before you rolled out this site, you have been discussing making a change for a long time. But that’s OK, we love the fact that we can interact with you. Some of us interact-up more than others!
Sideburns, your reference to November 5th had me thinking. I googled and found Guy Fawkes, but frankly that was a bit before my time.
It was my 35 year old son who provided me with a clue about it’s significance. I actually had to slap my head when I realized it! Wondered why Jerry Lewis never was named Secretary of State.:-)
In my business career, the words “change” and “improvements”, when applied to computery stuff, always made me want to head for a cyber storm shelter.
Look up the Gunpowder Plot, Steve, and Guy Fawkes Day.
Best of Luck! – But from a retired tech professional – save yourself a lot of angst; spend a few bucks and have it done right for you.
Jack in Dallas, like the professions who were to upgrade our software at my employer. Started at 6pm and supposed to be done by 7am the next morning. Final all clear sent at nearly 4pm. Had to work on Saturday to make up the time I couldn’t work on Friday.
The testing center I run has struggled to keep all the computers up and running ever since we “upgraded” to Windows 10. The techs have repeatedly frozen them all to a common, reliable state, but somehow Microsoft remotely changes the settings to allow their little updates to install in the background, slowing things down, right when we need all the computers running full tilt.
When disaster strikes, we have to restart the computers to get them back to that starting state, which means the students have to wait for them to recycle.
I’ve never understood why Microsoft thinks it has the right to change your settings like that with no warning. I don’t want get into a flame war or anything, because it’s none of my business to tell you (or the company you work for) what OS you should or shouldn’t use. Just wanted to make a comment about their policies.
Hey, what do you know? It picked up the avatar I always use. Great! However, I had to put my nickname and stuff in below. Sigh!
we’re with you Jimmy!!!!
#HELPJIMMYUPDATE
Hey, how’d you do that? — jj
We can talk with each other!
Looks like we finally have nesting comments! I wonder how I did that?
A blind nut finds a squirrel sometimes!
In the long run, that will help the comment stream be a little less schizophrenic. A reply can be connected to the original point– not left randomly in the message stream. Hooray!!
As for how you did it, maybe a default setting for the new software is preconfigured for nested replies? I’m with Ghost, already better.
Never question the tech genies, just take their three granted wishes and run.
Awesomesauce. Looks good so far!
So I’m proud, already. HS alma mater is doing Tevye in Yiddish! Scroll down, after you read the principal’s remarks, which are a good intro to the school. Secondmost important school choice I made; of course, Cornell U. was most important, for a reason most of you know.
https://www.stuyalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Alumni-Newsletter-Dec-2018.pdf
Peace,
It even kept my handle. 🙂
I wish more of his stories were translated into English, emb.
Meh. I’ve seen worse computer problems.
Although, In fairness, this version already seems to be capable of things the older one was not.
Already deciding on an avatar, assuming that function will be usable.
To be honest, this avatar looks pretty much like a Ghost…
😀
Looks interesting! I look forward to more lurking. In the meantime, a comment on today’s (Wed) A&J
The end of year is growing near
The air is crisp, the grass is sere
Let’s sing a song
As the night grows long
And make a toast to friendships dear
May the friends we find in The Village live long and prosper!
Not fond of the nesting of comments. It seems to me that such means I’ll need to start from the top every single time I check in so as to ensure I don’t miss a new comment nested amongst the older ones. Inconvenient, especially when a new page starts only on Tuesdays, and there may be 100 or 200 comments on a working page.
Agree
Nights are still getting longer, but sunsets are getting later. They started that on 8 Dec. Peace,
I was a little rattled that I could not get my Village fix.
Are we going to get Pictures?
As I have said many times that the computer programs have changed:
“All progress is change – but not all change is progress.”
If you want a little silly time-killer start clicking the #xxxx links under the header picture. Bounce around all over the place!
Looking good, Jimmy! And… the change has elicited more comments than we have had for awhile! Yay!
OMG, I clicked on PREVIOUS and it went to an earlier posting then I pressed NEXT and it went a later posting.
Stop right there. Don’t touch a thing. This is a miracle!
I have really enjoyed using the “random” button to look at a strip from the past. I hope you integrate this feature in the new format.
Jimmy, have Arlo contact Jill Kaplan over at the Pajama Diaries for help with web design. Suggest Comic Sans as the principle font. Jill loves it.
And we get a different picture at the top every time we come by. How cool is that? Now if you could set that random picture to be random older strips, you’d really have something.