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The polling software I’m using for the blog poll doesn’t reformat based on the size of the reader’s fonts. As a result, for several readers, the poll was bigger than the space on the page set aside for the poll and they couldn’t read the entire poll and so couldn’t vote for all their favorite bloggers.

I’ve fixed this, but in a clumsy way. I’ve set the space for the poll so large that it shouldn’t be a problem for those with larger fonts, but it will create a huge white space for everyone else. But it’s the only software that would let me set up a poll this large and allow readers to make multiple votes. So clumsy it is.

Also, for some odd reason, the ability to comment on the post was turned off. I’ve turned it back on. Sorry about that.

If you voted on an incomplete list and wish to add some votes for people higher in the alphabet, by all means do so, even if that puts you over the 5-vote limit.

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Emails stopped around March 20, 2011

For those readers who lost their email subscriptions around March 20, 2011, that’s the date that Theobloggers changed ISP providers. The result was to change the address that the emails came from. No longer are they from Theobloggers.

Therefore, if you have a whitelist spam filter, the new emails are likely being automatically directed into your Junk Mail, Spam, or Deleted folders. Take a look to see whether OneInJesus emails show up in there. They’ll be from me: jfguin(at)comcast(dot)net. In most email readers, you can click on one of the emails to add my email address to your approved list and the problem will be solved.

New subscriptions since March 20, 2011

The confirmation process for new subscriptions seems to have broken around March 20, 2011. I just found 17 new subscriptions in the last few weeks that were never confirmed. And that’s all the new subscriptions for that time period. (I was starting to worry that no one was subscribing!) The email program is broken, and so I’ve manually approved those new subscriptions.

I’m working with Theobloggers to get that fixed.

Until it’s fixed, if anyone tries to subscribe and doesn’t receive a confirming email, let me know and I’ll manually confirm for you.

Emails stopped around April 20, 2011

I have no idea why that happened or how many people this has affected. I know of at least one account that was receiving emails and then it just stopped — even though the email address is in my database and confirmed.

We’re working on it.

Email subscriptions to Comments

I posted instructions for how to subscribe to comments by email a while back. I’m not aware of any problems with this, except that it’s hardly obvious that you subscribe to all comments via email by clicking on the RSS icon  — which is confusing.

For the answer, read here.

I just discovered that my wife’s email subscription to OneInJesus stopped working on April 20. Is anyone else having the same problem?

First, you just have to read this story by a UA student about his experience in the tornado.

Next, there’s this cool Tuscaloosa News aerial footage. (Sorry, but I couldn’t figure a way to embed the video and there’s this commercial and cheesy logo thing at the beginning you can’t skip.)

Then you’ll enjoy this brief film, with this introduction:

The Oxford American‘s filmmaker, Dave Anderson, arrived the day after the storm to survey the damage there.

He was intrigued with the ever-present sound of chainsaws. Who was operating them? Where had they come from? So he set off to find out and came back with a hopeful story of basic human kindness.

Finally, there’s this great picture — a God’s-eye view of Tuscaloosa —

Now, the picture is misleading, because the actual damage covers a much wider range than is evident from the picture. I was able to tour much of the damage today, from Rosedale to Crescent Ridge, and the damage is one mile wide. For example, those familiar with the area can easily pick out University Mall at the US 82 and 15th Street interchange.

It looks from the photo as though University Mall was untouched, but in fact the Regions Bank branch on the corner suffered substantial damage and a corner of the Belk building (a tall, solid, brick building) was cleaved off. Meanwhile, you can’t tell from the photo that the Highlands subdivision was severely damaged although it’s entirely outside the brown streak.

I figure the actual range of severe damage is at least 4 or 5 times wider than the brown streak. You see, the brown streak is the area hit so hard that the trees were stripped bare or removed altogether. Roofs were ripped entirely off houses well outside that range.