Stumbled upon a new Blogger issue today. I'd rolled out a few posts and my friend Heidee wanted to post a comment. Alas, she could not, because she could not find the word verification input box.

Here is the screenshot she sent:

As you can see, the verification word is visible but the rest of the comment box seems cut off.

I tried to duplicate her issue, but since I was logged in to Blogger, I was not asked for word verification. I logged out and tried commenting on my own blog, and was able to duplicate her issue on Firefox and IE. (My friend tried it in Safari as well and it's broken as well.)

The cause of the issue is all too clear. Blogger is now showing a preview comment before the verification box, where before it was not. It seems that whomever approved this change did not test it out on the embedded-below-post comment forms, or failed to consider to increase the height of the pop-up word verification form, so that the input field is now inaccessible.

I thought to scour the web for a quick fix, but the issue seems fairly new. I found posts documenting the issue on Blogger Help here and here, logged July 10, 2009. So I doubt there's already a fix. And since this is a Blogger issue, editing my template won't help.

For now, I have disabled word verification on my comments. It makes me vulnerable to spam, but I have no other choice. If I revert to the default pop-up window comment form placement, my template might get messed up because I edited it before to get the embedded comment form to work.

For others encountering the same issue, you can do what I did, disable word verification. And if your blog is inundated with spam, then turn on comment moderation. The alternative is to switch from embedded comment form placement to full-page or pop-up comment form placement.

Hopefully Blogger fixes this issue fast.

P.S. Thanks for the heads up, Heids!

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"Why, don't you know? They're twitterpated." whispered the owl.

My Twitter page looks so glum. It's just one of the default Twitter backgrounds. My page looks so boring that even a couple of area rugs would spice it up.

My friends Jotie and Heidee haven't been on Twitter that long but they've already updated their backgrounds!

And here I thought I was the twitterpated one! Hahaha. Wanna know what that means? Learn with Bambi!

Here's a clip of when Bambi learns what twitterpated means. And if you don't know, it means confused by affection or infatuation.



And we all know, Bambi got all twitterpated over Faline anyways. :) Here's a cute mix I found on Youtube. Cheesy? Hahah. Oh but I love Bambi! :)



Anyway, back to Twitter. I am so glad I am starting to see friends on Twitter! I see Heidee, I see Chu. I see Raul, I see Jotie. And of course, don't forget to follow me too! :)

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Sterling silver jewelry is as beautiful as any other precious metal and comes with an additional benefit of affordable prices. Truth.

Don't these earrings look pretty?

I love earrings, especially silver earrings. I lust after them all the time.

Except I can't wear them.

It's not that I am afraid of getting my ears pierced. In fact, I've gotten them pierced twice! You can still see the scars on my ears from where the holes have healed.

It's just that I am allergic. I remember the time I got them pierced. I was in elementary, it was summer. I went over to play with a cousin at her house, and ended up lying with my ear pressed against the wooden floor, and my aunt sewing a thread through my earlobe.

I remember she placed rubbing alcohol all over the needle, the thread, her hands, the floor, and my ears. But my ear still got infected. Pus all over my earlobes for the next two weeks (good thing I didn't have any classes to go to!) until I finally decided to remove the thread from my ears. The holes closed and I never got to wear earrings.

Another time I got my ears pierced was in a doctor's clinic with a gun and hypoallergenic stud earrings. Same thing happened, I think. That was enough for me, then. I didn't try again.

It's weird because I never get rashes from wearing copper rings (the ones you get free inside junk food bags), or plastic bracelets, or even old, probably moldy heart pendant jewelry pieces. Because I love accessories. And I have a lot of them, I keep all the stuff I get and take them out from time to time for wearing. I even have earrings that people who don't know I can't wear them have given me, but I've never thrown away, because I still harbor the old hope that someday I can gather up the courage to get my ears pierced once again and suddenly, miraculously I can wear earrings without injury!

I was passing by a jewelry store the other day and I saw some really awesome silver drop earrings. I lusted so. I wonder if the time is right for another ear-piercing experiment...?

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Spent all morning trying to poo. Spent all afternoon trying to pee. I pride myself on performing well under pressure.

Apparently, I can't expel bodily fluids on demand.

FML.

Yeah, so I am planning on taking a laxative tonight so I can finally hand over that stool sample for my medical exam.

And the medtech agreed to use the drops of pee I managed to squeeze out after three bottles of water and two hours. But not before laughing and making fun of my pee.

Yeah the whole clinic had a laugh.

And not 30 minutes later, on my way home I almost peed on myself. I had to stop and duck into a toilet and peed buckets.

I have never before in my life spent such an obscene amount of time in the toilet.

I have to go take a bath now.

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Ah well, I'm still in limbo.

Have I mentioned my laptop's gone to HP for repair? The good news is that they honored the extended warranty. Yay! I knew they would! :)

But the bad news is that since my laptop was not bought in the Philippines, the parts are going to take a little while longer to procure. They're changing the motherboard, as again, I knew.

So I'm writing this blog from an Internet cafe! Poor me, no?

Not to worry! Life is gonna take an interesting turn. I fervently hope! :)

Stay tuned...

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The New Moon teaser is here! New Moon is, by the way, the second novel in the Twilight saga. Like you didn't know. :)

Looks good!



Oh my god the trailer looks sooo good! I am so excited! I don't know who's directing this thing but I am just glad it's no longer Catherine Hardwicke because she really sucked at directing.

You guys might be thinking I'm not into Twilight from all the negative stuff I've said about it in comparison to Sookie and True Blood but really I love it the same as you! The stories were fantastic, it was just Stephenie Meyer's telling that was unfortunate, and thus, made it so not a stellar experience.

Which is why I was so excited to watch Twilight, because I thought it would be a great movie. Unfortch, not. But this trailer looks surprisingly good! And not all greenish and monocolor like the first movie! There are actually red hues in there!! Yay for color!

And the make-up is soo much better! Did you notice Rob's lipstick isn't as bright red anymore? Lolololol! He looks so much hotter! Hee!

And speaking of hot, omigod, Taylor Lautner has bulked up! Oh I love his body. And I so love his skin color. :) :) :) And okay now I feel like a pervert for saying all those things, 'coz he is only what, 15? Ugh, I am going to pretend he is older!

The only thing I didn't like from the trailer was Bella's acting when she said "Kiss Me". Sooo unnatural and awkward. I cringed. She's not a very good actress...

While the best thing was definitely the last, where Jacob springs to action and transforms into a wolf. W00t! Loves it! I am so looking forward to more wolves and more half-nekkidness. Er... heh.

And! How wonderful is it that the scenes are not cut straight out of the book? Like, Edward never throws Bella against the piano and causes her entire arm to bleed! And Bella never sees Jacob transform into a wolf in the forest. And Jacob doesn't save her himself, it was him and his pack of wolves, and they were already in wolf form when they save Bella.

I love surprises! Bring it on! :D

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