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September 2006


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9/29/06    Guest Editor 9/29/06  posted by journalseditor (1 comments)

Hi everybody... as posted to the AOL Journals main page
9/28/06    Please Help Us Fix R8  posted by journalseditor (11 comments)

You may have noticed a lot of the problems from the past few days have magically vanished fro...
9/28/06    Enough Shovels of Dirt  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)


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9/27/06    Temporary Rollback to R7  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)
So the latest is: the Journals team has rolled back the R8 Journals release to R7 while fixing th...
9/27/06    Bug Fixes, Open Issues 9/27/06  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
The Journals Team has pushed through a few bug fixes that should address some of the problems you...
9/26/06    Hiccups in the SNS, Edit Entry Process?  posted by journalseditor (14 comments)
Some of our editors are experiencing a few hiccups when signing into and editing their Journals. ...
9/25/06    Journals R8 Install 9/26/06, Outage From 4-6 AM EST  posted by journalseditor (8 comments)
Just a quick word: AOL Journals R8 will go up tomorrow morning. This means a planned outage from ...
9/25/06    Virgin Festival Photos, Roundup  posted by journalseditor (6 comments)
(This post has very little to do with blogs or blogging. It's just meant to be entertaining.)M
9/22/06    Guest Editor 9/22/06  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
Hi everybody... as posted to the AOL Journals main page
9/22/06    Journals Outages Now Fixed  posted by journalseditor (11 comments)

You may have noticed sporadic outages and the infamous "blue screen of death" when you tried ...
9/20/06    Spell-Check is Fixed  posted by journalseditor (12 comments)
Hey all -- Spell-Check is fixed. Let the party commence. Now that I know you care, there's no exc...
9/20/06    Dragonfly, Hippopotami, Blogger Tools  posted by journalseditor (10 comments)

Every second today has been a glowing streak like you see in time-lapse astral photography. I...
9/20/06    Journals Down, Back Up  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
This is the best kind of Journals outage to report -- one that is already fixed. The Journals pro...
9/19/06    New Guy, New Links, Same Scene  posted by journalseditor (33 comments)
Hey there people -- I'm Jeff, and I'm the new voice/programming lead for AOL Journals, and approp...
9/19/06    One-Legged Man in a Production of 'Riverdance'  posted by journalseditor (13 comments)
Hey, folks. This is Journals Editor Jeffin my first posting on the Magic Smoke Blog. As Joeexplai...
9/18/06    Well, I Guess That's All Folks ...  posted by journalseditor (48 comments)
Okay folks, I guess that about does it for me. The next entry you see here should be coming from ...
9/18/06    How To: Make and Edit Hyperlinks  posted by journalseditor (3 comments)
Okay folks -- now that I did an entry on the difference between Te
9/18/06    Editing in Text Mode vs. HTML Mode  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)
Hi folks -- hope you all had a good weekend. I just wanted to get in a last tutorial before Edito...
9/15/06    Some Changes Are Afoot  posted by journalseditor (35 comments)
Hi folks -- I have some personnel changes to report (and no, they're not going to make me Preside...
9/14/06    How Are Blogs Like A-Rod? (Plus, Submitting Links to Social Link Sites)  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
Hi folks -- as he is wont to do, comic-stripper Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine has
9/13/06    Blogging: The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play?  posted by journalseditor (6 comments)
Morning, folks -- here's an item that's on the Google customized start page today: How to Dissuad...
9/12/06    Health Good News/Bad News (Plus, Using Blockquotes)  posted by journalseditor (3 comments)
Hi folks -- here are two health news links from the BBC News that I saw in my morning  perus...
9/11/06    9/11 Remembrances on the Web  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)
Well, here we are, officially 5 years later.

I've already blogged my personal
9/8/06    Remembering 9/11  posted by journalseditor (24 comments)
I'm going to use blogger John's Weekend Assignment #128, 9/11, Fi
9/8/06    Only the Lonely?  posted by journalseditor (10 comments)
Okay folks, I've been avoiding this story until now, but it just got more interesting this wee...
9/8/06    The Downside of "Let the Fans Decide"  posted by journalseditor (3 comments)
An L.A. Times article picked up by other papers talks about what happens when a minor-league ba
9/8/06    The Ultimate Blog Post?  posted by journalseditor (6 comments)
Back on Wednesday, Lore Sjöberg, formerly of The Brunching Shuttlecocks and now a columnist/blogg...
9/7/06    Doogie Howser, F.B. (First Blogger)?  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
Here's an item featured in Wonkette ("Politics for People with
9/7/06    Journals Alerts Problems Should Be Fixed  posted by journalseditor (9 comments)
Hi folks -- okay, so the problem with Journals NewEntry and Comment Added Alerts not being delive...
9/6/06    The Evening News Just Got Perkier  posted by journalseditor (4 comments)
So this is old news by now: Katie Couric made her debut on the CBS Evening News last night. There...
9/6/06    Update on Alerts Status, Plus Scheduled Maintenance, 9/7, 4AM ET  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)
Hi folks -- sorry, overdue on a status update: New Entry and Comment Added Alerts are still displ...
9/5/06    Following Up on Unfinished Business  posted by journalseditor (3 comments)
Here's some links following up on... other links:

* The Reason for the Zidane Headbutt -
9/5/06    Problems With Journals New Entry/Comment Added Alerts?  posted by journalseditor (22 comments)
Hi folks -- so, a bunch of you have reported to me and Journals Editor Jeff
9/5/06    Hello, September (redux)  posted by journalseditor (5 comments)
Hi folks -- hope you had a great Labor Day holiday (in spite of some Alerts problems some folks h...
9/1/06    Everywhere There's Signs  posted by journalseditor (13 comments)
Hi folks -- that's it for me this week. Before I sign off for the Labor Day holiday, Journaler De...
9/1/06    Hello, September (Sort of) and Cherry-Picking the Boards  posted by journalseditor (7 comments)
Hi folks -- well, it's the first of the month, so this should be the entry where I feature a phot...
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