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I'm usually running many different StackExchange sites in Firefox using tabs (using ReloadEvery to update every 5 minutes). Right now to check for activity, I have to manually click on the tab to see if the envelope is lighted. How about making the icon on the tab i.e. the title text change in ...

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@LanceRoberts Done, any luck?

OH NOES @tryaria IS HERE!

@PopularDemand RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

:-)

tryaria

Hey now - no making fun of the newbie @Josh

erum... @TUE

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That's @TheUnhandledException to the likes of you!

/me likes editing messages in chat

Lance Roberts

9:28 PM

@TheUnhandledException Yep, worked great.

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@LanceRoberts Awesome! @Fosco deserves the bounty :-)

UPS is still pissing me off. If there's anyone who's integrated with UPS for rate quoting I'd love help in

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Interactive help with bug testing, code review, anything that …

Lance Roberts

@TheUnhandledException Yep, I'll give it to him when my week is up.

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@LanceRoberts He'll be pleased. Except it's not real rep, it's Meta rep" :-)

tryaria

@TUE XKCD is a lot of fun. I've had that thought in mind ever since you first mentioned "the Tavern"

Lance Roberts

@TheUnhandledException Yep, but if he gets enough he can help us resurrect old questions.

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9:37 PM

@tryaria Gotta be @The or I won't hear you :-)

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9:48 PM

Less than 60 messages before I pass @rchern...

Sergio Tapia

hi

back from class

easy peasy

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Welcome back @SergioTapia!

Sergio Tapia

Check out this pic!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1yuh3d7641qznd83o1_500.jpg

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Which class?

@SergioTapia Post URL alone, not as a part of another message

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There we go >P

rchern should hide her API key...it's showing to everyone

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9:52 PM

@SergioTapia rchern, cover up! :-)

Popular Demand

@TheUnhandledException I was driving home when you said that; who's tryaria and why should I be scared?

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@PopularDemand remember the student of mine who complained I didn't teach bitwise operators? :-)

meet @tryaria :-)

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Welcome, @tryaria.

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I think he's sleeping :-)

@tryaria! Don't be rude! ;-)

Actually he's engrossed in the linux manual page for the man command. :-)

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Argh, UPS refuses to hold my package for me instead of making a delivery attempt when we all know I'll be at work and not in any position to answer my door.

Apparently B&N ordered them to.

It's my package, jerks!

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9:58 PM

How ironic, they refuse to let my code query for shipping rates. Jerks!

Shall we storm their facility and make heads roll @PopularDemand? :-)

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... I need to stop working and have dinner, or something.

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in The Roach Motel, 2 hours ago, by The Unhandled Exception

This is sooooo helpful:

in The Roach Motel, 2 hours ago, by The Unhandled Exception

> Caught an exception: upsRate got an error from UPS: Failure

Popular Demand

@TheUnhandledException Yeah, that didn't go so well for Comcast woman, so... no.

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@PopularDemand Good point

Popular Demand

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/…

For those who may not be aware.

And I'm off. Not sure what I'll do, but... no touchy computer for 45 minutes.

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10:02 PM

@PopularDemand Later!

Man it's quiet in her. Is everyone at Gaming?

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException Sorry - I was engrossed with Area51 actually - sorry for zoning out!

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LOL. He just left.

tryaria

@PopularDemand Thanks!

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I suspect @tryaria is @PopularDemand's sockpuppet :-)

@rchern -- report him to @JeffAtwood!

tryaria

Hey now @TheUnhandledException ! That's not very nice. Do I type at all like @PopularDemand ?

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10:13 PM

@tryaria You can reply to a specific message using the little reply indicators to the right of a post. Sweet huh?

@tryaria You're just trying to fool us ;-)

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException @TheUnhandledException I suppose so

@TheUnhandledException @TheUnhandledException Pest

@tryaria Just wondering if self reference works... humm, perhaps I should experiment in the sandbox though...

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tryaria

@TheUnhandledException @TheUnhandledException I prefer "lime cat"

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@tryaria have a star

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException @TheUnhandledException Awwww - thanks! Maybe I'm really your bot?

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10:17 PM

@tryaria You know my name appears when you reply right? ;-)

in Chat feedback, 2 hours ago, by Chacha102

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException Yeah.... just noticed that...

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That is all. Please carry on

rchern

returns

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/me hides

tryaria

/me points @TheUnhandledException

rchern

10:18 PM

:o

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Foiled again.

@rchern :o indeed!

It's... it's not backwards!

:-D

rchern

o:

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException Is it bad that this picture reminds me of Tigger?

rchern

you realize that now i'm going to make a point of doing o:, right?

q:

tryaria

@rchern I was about to note that

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10:21 PM

@rchern ):(

rchern

your smiley is backwards.

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now you're all really confused :-)

rchern

heh

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@rchern Just you wait until Friday... them my chat feedback feature request becomes a meta question! :-)

which will hopefully be

status-completed

rchern

status-declined-and-denied

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10:24 PM

LOL

status-popular-demand-where-are-you-when-I-need-you

):

rchern

status-shot-down

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Hey at least I still think StackFlair is way better than Jeff's lame attempt :-)

11 hours ago, by Jeff Atwood

you guys should play with it and give feedback: syntax is http://example.com/users/flair/{id}.png

I get some credit for that right @rchern? :-)

rchern

status-shot-down-gently

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status-thanks

rchern

q:

I'm running out of feature ideas for StackFlair

other than adding more themes, i got most of what i wanted done in the publish i did earlier

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10:28 PM

Because you closed all the open tickets!!!

:-)

rchern

well i implemented them!

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oh HAHA

the best kind of closure

status-completed

I need to check the new publish and see these themes

rchern

there's just default and glitter

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oh...

rchern

suggest a variation!

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10:31 PM

Black!

Something that will look nice on josh.gitlin.name/about

rchern

the main thing i was doing with themes this time is abstracting things out into a proper template pattern

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Oh, yes... that's right

rchern

so that now new themes will be super duper easy (:

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I need to make my CMS be able to fetch and insert HTML from a remote site :-)

hmmm:

rchern

?

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10:33 PM

my stackflair is broken! :'(

rchern

o:

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Server Error in '/' Application.

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)

/me crys

rchern

!O:

i can't even load somee.com

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Feature request; If it goes down, show:

tryaria

well folks, it's been real, but I have to wander back to work or I'll owe @TheUnhandledException a bunch of beer money

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10:35 PM

@tryaria Good luck :-)

tryaria

@TheUnhandledException Thanks

rchern

bye @tryaria

tryaria

@rchern Nice meeting you - we'll have to chat again sometime when I'm a bit less crazy-go-nuts busy

rchern

> Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to somee.com

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(He and I are in a contest to see who can get more work done each week. Don't tell him how often I'm in chat @rchern)

(-:

rchern

10:37 PM

you want my (: auto-replaced...and yet you want me to keep quiet?

uhh hhuh

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@rchern Well they'd only auto-replace for me :-) That way, I don't always think you're sad like @MichaelMrozek does

Marc Gravell

spots a grease-monky in the offing...

rchern

):

oy

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@MarcGravell LOL. How are you doing?

rchern

who added that event anyway

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10:46 PM

@rchern @Chacha102

@rchern: Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode…

(FYI) stackflair.somee.com/Generate/…

rchern

yikes

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status-status-has-been-disabled-on-superuser-chat

Grace Note

@The Disabled on Gaming, too, and I imagine web apps and SF as well

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@GraceNote chat.gaming.stackexchange.com ?

rchern

yeah, no go on WA

Grace Note

10:57 PM

Speaking of which, @rchern, are we going to lose you now that web apps has their own chat, or will you still hang out with us here? ♪

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Wow Web Apps has one too!!

How can I be one of the first to know when StackOverflow gets chat?

Grace Note

Be awake 5 minutes after Marc makes the announcement

That's what I did

rchern

@TheUnhandledException, f5 on SO every other second looking for the chat link and announcement

you should probably start now.

Lance Roberts

Why wouldn't they just make each chat to to a separate room instead of a whole site?

Grace Note

@Lance Communicate the reputation for the separate sites

It's a lot nicer for Gaming because now the gamers don't need some reputation on Meta Stack Overflow just to satisfy their discussive needs

Lance Roberts

11:00 PM

@GraceNote Couldn't they come up with a way to associate rep and rooms. Hey we're programmers, how hard could it be?

Popular Demand

@GraceNote I wonder if a "Post an answer here if you want enough rep to use the chat until more chats launch" question would have gone over well back when MSO chat was the only one.

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@LanceRoberts I know, I'm not so sure I'm loving 10 different sites...

Grace Note

@Popular That was done so many times by separate people

@Lance Sure, there could be a way. But this was the original plan, that each site has its own stuff.

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@GraceNote Wait were you even HERE before I mentioned that? Are you like Balpha?

Popular Demand

@GraceNote Exactly, it was mildly annoying having so many independent "how do I get 20 of these 'reputation' things" questions.

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11:02 PM

@Theun I have my ways ♪

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Sep 16 at 20:21, by balpha

I FELT A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE

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(Your name is pronounced "Thoon" from hereforthwith) ♪

Lance Roberts

@GraceNote I guess in my head, I thought they'd just be separate rooms. There's no way I'm opening up anymore tabs.

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LOL

rchern

the only somee page i can pull is StackFlair's default.aspx. can't hit the homepage, admin page, my generate page, database page... ):

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11:08 PM

@rchern so weird :-)

Lance Roberts

I always hate it when I go back to old code and see something stupid I did.

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@LanceRoberts Likewise

I was doing that Friday and again today

5+ year old code, I look at it today and think, "man, this is so poorly written!"

Welcome back @Chacha102

Chacha102

Hi

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11:25 PM

@LanceRoberts That's all I see in my old code.

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You're hard on yourself huh @PopularDemand?

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@TheUnhandledException Hm, okay, what does this dear god why is every single thing in this file static!? Even my curly braces are static somehow!

Grace Note

static { static return; static }

Lance Roberts

@Pop, That script works really great, it'll save me a bunch of time.

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@PopularDemand LOL!

Ok. I take it back ;-)

Popular Demand

11:46 PM

@TheUnhandledException I don't actually have much of a code resume, at least compared to the rest of you Taverners.