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Our staff blog contains news and updates about This Is Who We Are. This is a 'group blog', in which any of our staff team can post entries.

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In development - Millennium Vista Sidebar Gadget Pt.2

Good news, I had chance to work on the idea of a Millennium style countdown gadget for Windows Vista (see my previous post). I'm really excited about this, because a) I think the idea is really cool and b) I got it to work without too many problems along the way. Below is a screen shot of my desktop with the results so far: As you can see (ignoring my busy background wallpaper and other icons), the gadget is listed in the gadget box with a brief description, but more importantly over t
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In development - Millennium Vista Sidebar Gadget

Libby will probably send a member of Legion out to get me for this , because I'm supposed to be working on some cool graphs to enhance the Nielson Rating pages for the episode guide, but I just can't help myself. I've been inspired by a little countdown gadget I have on my Windows Vista sidebar, that counts down until my annual festive Lake District Holiday in December. I think its about time we had some Millennium related sidebar gadgets. I have a couple of ideas but firstly I want to crea
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Live chat at This is who we are!

As previously announced in our entries about forthcoming features, by now I'm sure you will have spotted our new live chat Shoutbox running at the top of the board index (you need to be logged into the board to see and use it). The Shoutbox is visible in all forums and topics, so you can shout a message at any time, even whilst you are posting in the forums. Someone described it as following you around the board, which was a fun description! However, we have removed it from the other components
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Halloween

TIWWA Members, The Happy Halloween skin has been made the default skin theme for the coming week, its tradition after all! Therefore, if you were using the board's usual default skin (called M-TIWWA in the drop down list of available themes at the bottom of most pages), you will notice that you are now seeing the Happy Halloween skin. After Halloween, it will automatically switch back to normal. Don't forget you can still change to a different skin when using TIWWA at any time you like,
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IP.Board 3.0 and Blog, Gallery and Downloads

With the upcoming release of IP.Board 3, we will of course be updating our components to be compatible with the new architecture. Releases of IP.Blog, IP.Gallery and IP.Downloads will be available alongside IP.Board 3.0 so that we can update everything at the same time and not have to worry about when our other components will be ready. IPS who sell our software have determined that initially for the big release, they will only be working for application compatibility between our components
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Back to Frank Black - Blog Content Block available

If you have a free blog here at TIWWA, available to members who have more than 25 posts, you may like to now that a new content block is now available supporting the campaign for the return of one Frank Black. It features the following banner, all ready to go from your list of content blocks:
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Recent Server Performance Issues - Seemingly Resolved

The Elder Staff Team including myself have been very concerned about a recent bout of server sluggishness that you may have also noticed. For example, messages taking a while to post or edit, new topics taking a while before they load into your browser etc. For this I apologise, it has been very frustrating especially when you have a lot to do on TIWWA. We have been working with our web host to try and track down the issue and today the root cause has apparently been identified and addressed.
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FAQ about the new Personal Conversations

Here's some extra FAQ regarding the forthcoming major change to the existing PM (personal messaging) system which is to be replaced by the new Personal Converstations (or topics if you like). Will there be a search facility for the personal conversations? How does moderation and reporting work with this? Any way for the admin/moderator to see a complete listing of personal topics? You CAN report a personal conversation to a moderator and you can report any reply in the conversation as
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PM's are changing to Personal Conversations

The following is the next in our series of heads-up style updates on what to expect soon from our board, and is itself a copy of a blog entry announcing the new feature Personal Converstations, which will be replacing the current PM (personal message) system in the forthcoming version of our board software. IP.Board 3: Personal Conversations Posted by Matt, Sep 26 2008, 02:41 PM in IP.Board Around ten years ago, I was hard at work on one of the first 'Private Message' modifications for a
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It's not only actors!

A few external grumbles from members of late has caused me to pause and simply enjoy being in TIWWA for a few seconds before posting. I think we all, without question, realise what a wonderful little corner of the web has been created here. Yup, we may venture south to the badlands once in while but I, and I know I'm not alone, have yet to venture into any online concern as friendly and respectful and encouraging as this one. We all of us have had 'those' experiences of slowly becoming cognisant
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IPB3.0 is on the way!

Coming later this year will be the next major revision of IPB - Invision Power Board. This is the software platform which TIWWA runs on. V3.0 has been written from the ground up with increased performance and efficiency in mind (much provided by PHP5 which it now solely supports) plus a whole lot of new features that will help to improve add-ons like the Gallery and Blog facilities, plus 3rd party Mods. A rewrite of the core programming will allow for many feature requests to be implemented t
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Shoutbox - realtime AJAX powered chat coming soon.

One of the most frequently asked for facilities here at TIWWA is a chat room. We know you guys often want to talk amongst yourselves. I do honestly keep an eye out for such software that we can integrate with the board, so that you can use your existing log-in's without having to re-register on a separate database. Unfortunately most of the solutions have been very expensive, have security issues or are just plain fiddly. Enter IP.Shoutbox! Rather than a 3rd party mod add-on, IP.Shoutbox is a
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Welcome to the new Staff Blog at TIWWA!

Welcome to the new staff blog at This is who we are! We'll will be doing our best to keep you all up to date with behind-the-scenes news, ramblings and a general heads up of what to expect from TIWWA in the coming months. Its all a bit work in progress, so please bear with us and don't forget to give us any feedback, thoughts or ideas along the way. As far as I know, this will be the first example of a team blog at TIWWA - the difference being that multiple editors (in this case our staff
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