In consideration for some of us who are still stuck [at least in some computing locations] in the paleolithic age of the Internet i.e. "dialup" connections, wonder if you could work on the load time. It's taking me 3-4 minutes to load....and a minute or two before any text is visible.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Is it any faster now?

Much better. Thanks.

Much better...usually I open three blogs while I'm reading another, but this one came up quickly (28.8 dial-up, darned AZ phone company)!

I really dig your new banner!

My old hom pag suks

Love your blog but didn't read it as often when you were in Iraq because of the slow load time on our antiquated dial-up. To be honest, it took about 30 minutes for me to get everything (pictures). If it seems faster tomorrow, I'll let you know.

Thank you, thank you for your service and for such a terrific blog.

Semper Fi from a soldiers' angel and a gold star auntie.

With my dial-up Explorer takes forever because it has to load almost the entire page before it shows, it may have been like this before tho. With Firefox it loads good. I have to say I enjoyed the old pop-up window when making comments. Also as a suggestion when clicking on the comments link, allow the left click instead of forcing a right to the menu and then clicking open or new window.

Have you thought about changing it to "Mugville" ;-)

It looks nice.

We aim to please. We're all about options.

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Trackback worked great. I use Haloscan and it took the ping with no problems.

Ric has a great story at his site. See trackback link above.

My blog says the trackback went through but it's not showing up.

I was wondering why people post their trackback url, the cgi bin etc. What purpose does that serve?

What's this: http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm? Are they commies?

It loads faster. I have dial up, a sloowwww 28,800 dialup, and this came up much faster. Front page that is, not comments.

Really fast now on DSL. Used to have about a 30 sec hang-up but not now. I haven't scrolled the whole page yet so I'll check that out. Had to do the tap dance when I scrolled down to the clocks. I'll check it out.

Update: nope! still hangin' up on smooth scroll by the clocks but not a big deal. Have to tap through it. Could just be my old computer also.

The download speed is a vast improvement!

Uh, what's in the mugs? :-o

LOL Eason.

I changed the CNN link under News Sites on my blog to read "CNN Alternative".

The target is a different site, too. Check it out for a chuckle. I'm thinking of changing CNN Alternative to Fomerly CNN.

Much faster (no delay, as it should be w/broadband access) and very slick banner, Mr & Mrs. G.

trying to make this work... but I keep getting this error message when I click on the link I created (link from here: http://gojackarmy.blogspot.com/2005/02/testing-mudville-gazettes-in-line.html#comments).

here is the error message I get:

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Need a Source URL (url).

Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for the help.

w00t! Outstanding!!!

I'm on dial-up at home (53K) and it loads very fast, about 30 seconds, except the ads, but they are faster as well.

Thanks for keeping the option for comments in a separate window. It's very useful on a long post to be able to see the body of the post while commenting.

OT: Fox is on in the living-room and I think they just said Saddam's half (or step?) brother has been captured.

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I had no problem with the trackback. The loading time is still a bit slow though with IE6 and 46k dialup. Little over a minute. But this has never stopped me from visiting your blog.

Retread, about Saddam's relative being captured - I believe it is his half-brother. YeeHaw!

Love DSL, takes about 30 seconds to get you.

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