Monkey Musings Daily Open Discussion #8 10/24 - 11/19/2007

[sharon]

This is a question to Dugga  (I think)

Klaas -- I apologize if this is the wrong spot -- and of course if it needs to be moved or deleted -- no hurt feelings here

Dugga -- I thank you so much for restoring the June 2005 archives.

I have read them -- and read them -- and read them.....


Any ETA for restoring JULY 2005 and August 2005 and beyond??

[MumInOhio]

Good Morning, Monkeys! Raining a little here today and expecting a wet weekend. Wish we could send some of it out to Anna and California where they really need it.

Watching CNN last night, they said the air is really bad in CA, so all our Californian Monkeys please take care. Still hoping for good news from Shell. Seems a lot of the infrastructure is down in the fire areas and it may be a while until we hear from her. The folks whose houses did survive the fires may not be able return home for weeks until all the utilities are fixed. What a disaster.

[MumInOhio]

Thanks Sharon...you reminded me to let DUGGA know that the google crawlers work very well! I posted that I googled something the other day and when I went back yesterday to Google, my post came up on the first and second page

[MuffyBee]

Good morning  Happy Friday   I hope today will bring blue skies to California.   

[MumInOhio]

Good morning  Happy Friday   I hope today will bring blue skies to California.   

Good Morning to you too, Muffybee! Nice to see you again.

Will have to check out the California weather maps.

[snoopy]

Good Morning Sharon, Muffy, Mum, and all ya'll. 

Sharon thanks for asking that.  I would love to get my hands on those too.

CBB  Where's the coffee????? 

[crazybabyborg]

OK... going to watch the game...

Haven't posted much in Natalee's thread, don't know what to say but I read there and in the missing person's threads every day even when I don't post...

a preacher once told me that "eventually good always wins out"... and I know it does.. so keep the faith..


CBB... please oh please send me a HUGE cup of coffee in the morning... it's like my life line! 

For you? ANYTHING!  Is this big enough? 

[Lala'sMom]

Coffee?  Did someone say coffee?

[crazybabyborg]

Here you go, Lala's and Snoopy! Have a little treat for breakfast, too!

[Lala'sMom]

Here you go, Lala's and Snoopy! Have a little treat for breakfast, too!

Thank you my dear. 

[MumInOhio]

CBB.. Thanks for coffee. I hope you don't mind,but have decided after my niece's visit to stick with my Aussie heritage where we don't celebrate Halloween. My niece couldn't get over how everyone here decorates for Halloween,especially our little town as we have a State Park that does Fall Festivals. Her friend went absolutely over the deep end at Cedar Point last weekend in the haunted walk and we had to have a police offecer escort her out I guess she had a bad experience at Universal Studios in CA.I was waiting until after the Tribe got knocked out of the playoffs,but decided after all this that I'm just too cute the way I am! Thanks again to both you and Klaas for my avi.

[crazybabyborg]

Not at all, Mum! You being you is treat enough! 

[crazybabyborg]

It's FRIDAY!!!!! Thank you Lord for getting me through this week! I hope that today will be a grateful one for Shell, too! I hope we hear from her today!

[Dugga]

For you? ANYTHING!  Is this big enough? 

Wow, CBB. That's one teeny tiny hand!

 

(running in to the office - Sharon, when I get there, I'll respond to your question. I don't want to rush thru my response to you)

[snoopy]

Thank you so much for the coffee CBB.  Actually if you seen my coffee cup you'd crack up.  It holds a 4 cup pot of coffee with all the sugar I require and creamer.  It's so darn heavy it takes both hands.  It's pretty cool.  Don't have to make second trips.  It's a Big Dog mug that says "Big Dog Mom"   She who must be obeyed.   pppfffttt.   

Mum  you're cute as a bugs ear. 
That's how I look most mornings (don't do them very well) 

Rock On!! 

Hope Shell can check in soon.  Prayers to everyone in CA.

[snoopy]

Oh heck.. If... not is.  Geez

[sharon]

Thanks Dugga!

I'll check back later.

I do really thank you for the June 2005 stuff. 

[Dugga]

Any ETA for restoring JULY 2005 and August 2005 and beyond??

Sadly, we do not have any of the original databases from that time period. When Tom left and I came in, Tom gave us the data from the first month of messages, but there was nothing beyond that anywhere to be found. I don't know the whole story as to why Tom didn't have all the data backed up, but for whatever reason those messages do not exist in a format that can be brought into the board the way that the first month's messages have been.

I have been told, however, that a long-time Scared Monkeys forumer has some if not all of that data in a different format that we may be able to place online in one form or another. It's an uphill climb, but we do intend on looking into it. We have to first obtain data for the exact date ranges we're missing, and then I'll have to dig thru it to see how it's laid out and if it can be made accessible or searchable in some way. Red and I are meeting this weekend so I'll see if we can get that ball rolling again.

MumInOhio, thanks for that bit of information. We have been using several new tools to try to more efficiently catalog all of the Monkeys sites content at Google. Those things take time, but it's great to hear a report like yours that it appears to be working!

[MumInOhio]

Any ETA for restoring JULY 2005 and August 2005 and beyond??

Sadly, we do not have any of the original databases from that time period. When Tom left and I came in, Tom gave us the data from the first month of messages, but there was nothing beyond that anywhere to be found. I don't know the whole story as to why Tom didn't have all the data backed up, but for whatever reason those messages do not exist in a format that can be brought into the board the way that the first month's messages have been.

I have been told, however, that a long-time Scared Monkeys forumer has some if not all of that data in a different format that we may be able to place online in one form or another. It's an uphill climb, but we do intend on looking into it. We have to first obtain data for the exact date ranges we're missing, and then I'll have to dig thru it to see how it's laid out and if it can be made accessible or searchable in some way. Red and I are meeting this weekend so I'll see if we can get that ball rolling again.

MumInOhio, thanks for that bit of information. We have been using several new tools to try to more efficiently catalog all of the Monkeys sites content at Google. Those things take time, but it's great to hear a report like yours that it appears to be working!

Your Welcome Dugga..glad it works for you, but scared the heck out of me considering what I was googling!

[sharon]

Thanks Dugga.  I know SM will try its best. I know there will be many of us here that will rejoice if it can be done 



And now for some Friday humor -- probably not as funny if you've never been owned by a cat 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4hNMqDhoo