Right, but it shouldn't! I like to see how long someone has been playing on brainking. And I am also proud that I have been here for quite a while, and don't want that to change if I ever decide to change my nic.

i was thinking that if it was a recent change, it might only work on recent nic changes.

tazman7474: I doubt that...look at Chuck's profile for instance:
http://brainking.com/cz/Profile?u=5745
He's definitely changed his nick since logging in for the first time.

maybe one of the recent changes counts the first log in on the new nic!

Hm...that's intersting. The only explanation that comes to my mind right now is that Fencer set the start of the membership to June instead of July since the Czech names of these months are very similar (červen, červenec).

If it IS that, then I'm thinking it's probably a bug, because I don't recall that happening in the past, when someone changed their nic.

I was thinking that. But, it shouldn't change the "First login" date, in my mind.

rod03801: do you think it could be from a change in a nic?

LOL.. "someone" was just a general term. I didn't want to necessarily mention names. But Saruman below is an example.

rod03801: Who is it? I looked for "someone", but found only "someonespecial" who is a pawn.

It seems like I am running into a lot of profiles lately where their first login to the site is later than when their membership started. (For example, someone's rook membership would be June 1, 2005 to December 1, 2005. Then lower down it says their first login was July 11, 2005.) How can this be? I have run in to at least 4 or 5 over the last couple weeks.

Saruman: How about grabbing one of the games in the Waiting games area, or creating a few of your own?

You might like to change your profile message too, lol. Glad to see you're back into a bg frame of mind. ;-)

if anyone want's to play backgammon or any varient's of it with me invite me

who want's to play a game of line4 or froglet with me?

BuilderQ and playBunny and Fencer: Thanks for the replies.

reza: As playBunny said, bold italics are acheived by nesting the tags.

Color... let me test: <font color="red">test</font>

Fencer: How about color and BOLD ITALIC?

reza: You cannot set a font size here. At least not now.

playBunny: how about bold italic? And, for the size and color, please tell me how I should write the code and what I want the code to have effect on. For example if I want to type Reza with a font sized 20 and in Red, what should I type?

Thanks so much

Use <i>italics</i> to get italics and <b>bold</b> to get bold.
You can nest the two <i>it<b>ali</b>cs</i> gives italics

Sorry, I don't know how to get font sizes and colors - the standard html tags are simply converted to text:
Not working:
<span style="font-size: 24px">Big</span>
<font size="24px">Big</font>

I don't know if it's the right place to ask, but: How do I use italic fonts here on BrainKing and is there a way to change the size too? or maybe the color?

Fencer:

pauloaguia: Have a look at What's New page now.

Fencer: Another suggestion. On some pages there is some sort of special code that makes some browsers react to it. For instance, in Opera, whenever I visit a page that somehow has some RSS connection, A small blue RSS icon appears on the address bar. If I click on it I immediatelly get the option of subscribing that feed.
I think it has something to do with code like
<link rel="alternate" href="ADDRESS/news.rss" type="application/rss+xml" title="Server news"/>

I think it could be a nice thing to implement here as well, and that code could go on the ServerNews page. At least while there is no reference to the RSS feed anywhere on the site (that I've seen, anyway).

pauloaguia: Good idea.

Fencer: I'd like to suggest that the Printer Friendly version of this page didn't have the message box in it. No point to have a message form on paper is there? ;)

Haven't checked the rest of the site yet, but I like the idea...

Btw, there is also a small printer icon at the bottom of each page. Clicking on it will create a "printer friendly" version of the page with removed navigation columns. Then you can use the link "back" on the page top to return to a normal mode.

Fencer: one can also get an RSS reader plugin for explorer: http://www.pluck.com/

Works great too.

RssReader is a program to read RSS and Atom news feeds.
RssReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for syndicating news.

BTW, I have Explorer 6 with XP. I am able to display the info into the browser. ;)

ArtfulDodger: Thank you :-)

Fencer: I'm using a reader from RSSReader.com and it works for me.

Never mind. Please, only those who know what RSS is and how to use it.

Web-tv.
These are the first two lines that I get when connecting with that link.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1250"?>
!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0

Fencer: :oD oh ok, sorry was trying to help but Im not very technically minded, just thought it was a link! :oD

Oh.. what is RSS reader?

With WebTV, I saw a version of the Server News page with all the HTML showing.

I get what looks like your programing on both the link and in the address bar

Lamby: You are not supposed to click on it but to use this URL in your RSS reader :-)

Fencer: P.S Im on Mozilla Firefox

Fencer: this is what it says when I click on it....

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

and then it shows info listed

Can anybody try it please?
http://brainking.com/cz/NewsRSS/news.xml
Of course, replace the "cz" by the language code you use.
It seems to be working fine with Mozilla Thunderbird but I didn't test it with other RSS readers.

ZEROZERO and wekke's Membership Tournament

bwildman & Scarlet Rose: Thanks, I think! I just ran through it and put down my first thoughs. Then after a few days I re-read it and really debated about some of those answers.

bumble: LOL...imagine the royalties!!
Floose: how many times did you have to re-type that??
great interview!

I didnt ask anything bad...I 'm descent...8^{

harley:

Vikings: I don't get mad

Often

reza: I don't want to have Harley mad at me

Vikings: wanna share?