Thursday, 19 August 2004

All change....NOT!

Envisage if you will dear friends, a small child livid in tantrum, arms and legs flailing wildly in all directions, jumping up and down and decidedly red in the face......there you have it, personification of my current state of mind and of how I would happily behave if only it were acceptable in a woman of a certain age!

No prizes for guessing what has caused this temporary regression into childhood......this damned infernal blog! What a bloody waste of time. I mused over the template options and liked none of them, presumably I didn't when I started this or I would have not chosen this one. Anyway, having decided to go for pretty and pink I pressed the button in anticipation, waited an inordinate length of time for my Heath Robinson dialup to present me with the result and what happened.......... I went pink alright but still with not a sign of the exasperating and neh' to be found delete icon I am missing!!!

So I tried six others...again nothing!

Bums and bugger and fuck!! My apologies for the use of such expletives, thus far I have resisted the use in this public forum but right now there are no other words in my vocabulary that suitably sum up my current level of frustration.....see it please, if you will, as my therapy and forgive me.

So as you see, I am back as I was, black and iconless.

Please....someone, anyone, HELP! There must be a techie out there somewhere who is giggling at my technical stupidity and knows what I am doing so wrong, just let me know and I will be indebted to you forever.

6 Comments:

Snowbabies said...

I checked ours again after reading this because I know I spotted the trash icons the other day. Now they've gone again, there is a delete option on snowbabies represented by a tiny dash under the comment but nothing on our other two blogs.

I've just had 20 minutes moving <$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$> about in the template but it's not made any difference....I'll keep trying..

Paul

gemmak said...

Paul: Jenny has the same dash but I don't even have that :o(

I have fiddled with that bit of code til im blue in the face and trhe rest of it but it doesn't change anything! Here's hoping you have more sucess that I have over the last few weeks :o)

gemmak said...

Pah!..see..a comment with typos and I'm stuck with it! hehe

Snowbabies said...

I managed to get the trash can to appear! I've changed my template so that the delete tag is on the same line as the permalink tag. eg.

<$BlogCommentDateTime$><$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$>

Then I republished my blog (index only), edited a post with comments, re-published the post, viewed the post, viewed the comments and refreshed the page and the icons appeared. Hopefully, the icons will now appear next to all new comments, we shall see....lol...

magz said...

well sis.. whatever ya got there is contagious, cause i USED ta have trashcans... and now they're hiding... probably in that 12th demension where all the odd socks and hangers congrgate. poor terri probably winces evertime she sees my comment page where she made the same remark... FOUR TIMES!!!

gemmak said...

Thanks for the advice and mail Paul........didn't work for me tho :o( and Magz, the 12th dimension is where they must be at coz I sure can't find them any place else! Yours and mine??? Paranoia is setting in! lol