The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50882792011-04-22T04:41:07.395+10:00The Online Dictionary of Playground SlangInformation about the dictionary (www.odps.org), its development - and anything else that comes to mind really!Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-83383933740128101322007-05-23T19:10:00.000+10:002007-05-23T19:15:26.892+10:00And the blog is...?

You might be asking just what's the point of having a blog on a dictionary site? Surely the words are all there to be read so... ?Well for starters it gives us a chance to ramble about the site, and changes or improvements etc we make. Also we can add in links to news about slang or interesting developments we've read.Also, hard as it is to believe, there are dozens of *other* sites out there you

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-90993881544053719632007-05-23T19:03:00.001+10:002007-05-23T19:10:20.911+10:00The ODPS Blog rides again!

Some two years after it's last post... and after several iterations and layout changes, the blog is making a reappearance.As you can no doubt see I've left *all* the posts from the previous version of the blog extant (I like that word :)) so you can read some of the problems we had back then!For now... this will do. Maybe one day I'll get 'above myself' and add an incarnation via Wordpress or

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1116075006898469312005-05-14T22:45:00.000+10:002005-05-14T22:50:06.903+10:00

Not gone again surely?Well nope... apologies for those who arrived to find the site dead as a dodo last night. All thanks *must* go to Phillipa who kindly let me know.The problem turned out to have been a server error which deleted the entire database!! Because of Phillipa, I was able to get to the host and get the database rebuilt before anything was overwritten. :)We are now up and running

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1115965960326433262005-05-13T16:23:00.000+10:002005-05-13T16:32:40.330+10:00

Hello again!Long time no see! Where've I been? Well actually I've been updating another little site I run called Talk Tidy which is an odd little place... but I like it.I've also been looking at ways to integrate the current installation of Glossword with Mambo... and guess what? Can't do it. It *is* possible to integrate the two (up to a point) but it appears it's only possible with new

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1114741984731694332005-04-29T12:27:00.000+10:002005-04-29T12:46:52.686+10:00

The Forums? Oh... perleease!Actually, I *have* just installed forum software on the Forum/Blog site but you can't see it just yet :)Actually I'm looking for a way to integrate the blog with the forum so they share a common theme... not easy apparantly... something about them not sharing much coding... ah well. If you'd like a sneak preview of the 'bog standard site'... then click here where you

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1114345985632657632005-04-24T22:24:00.000+10:002005-04-24T22:33:05.633+10:00

Ever felt like a parrot?Not this isn't some gastronomical quiz, not is it an advert for some fetish group. It's just that I seem to be constantly repeating "Who's a silly boy then?"... or some similar theme.Talking of themes... that's what I did... changed the theme on the forum/blog site to one that wasn't 100% ready for use... and sort of... killed it :)Kyte - bless her little cotton socks -

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1113989429982569312005-04-20T19:26:00.000+10:002005-04-20T19:30:29.983+10:00

Oh Lord, I can be SO stupid!After all this time I've realised why we weren't getting the usual floods of submissions... I changed the 'mailto' address to a gmail one... and it all *bounces*. Flaming Google probably thinks it's spam or something..Problem fixed - it's back to the original one - but how many words have been lost forever.People who feel like kicking me - form a line :(

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The March Back Begins!I've been looking at the stats and it looks like the ODPS is beginning to recover. Of course we still need more submissions and similar but at least visitor numbers are increasing so... we're on the way!!By the way - you might wonder where the new words are... well... as yet another excuse for not doing any work I've had my sister and brother in law staying here for the past

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1112965639174505592005-04-08T23:00:00.000+10:002005-04-08T23:07:19.176+10:00

And slowly times change!After some short deliberation... oooh... a good ten seconds... I decided to totally remove all traces of the 'old' forum site and create a new 'forum/blog' site built around Wordpress... which I might add is a nice bit of kit!!Ok it doesn't have the same 'feel' as before, but it's a lot more practical to manage and update. So far it's there... with a couple of posts... but

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Seedy Songs indeed :)Finally finished off re-entering all the playground songs and rhymes I found in the database. There *are* more out there... millions of them... I just need you to send them to me! Well ok... maybe not only you... maybe your friends? family? strangers on the street? We always need new material and since the site has been down we've lost a lot of the impetus. Let's go guys!!

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1112785475177034782005-04-06T21:01:00.000+10:002005-04-06T21:04:35.176+10:00

Getting there slowly.At the time of writing I've managed to get 175 terms re-entered into the 'Seedy Songs' dictionary. There're still another 200 or so to go that are still in the database, but the work is at last going on. Give me a week and it'll all be back up ready to put in the *new* entries. Then I can get on to all the filthy lyrics in the Rugby songs... now *that* ought to be a giggle! :)

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My fingers ache!I've spent most of today uploading entry after entry to the 'Seedy Songs' dictionary and have so far made very little headway relatively! At least I mananged to extract a database dump of the 'old' entries which is allowing me to do it. The thought of having to look through four years of mail trying to find the entries one at a time still gives me the shivers! On the other hand,

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The Times they *are* a changing!Well - this time I really *am* back. The slipped disc is sufficiently recovered for me to start working on my sites. I've already revamped my 'personal' blog and sorted out the forums on Talk Tidy which is another dictionary site dedicated to Wenglish, the English dialect spoken around the place of my birth, i.e. S.Wales, UK.The time has come to look closely at

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1108516439138413152005-02-16T12:10:00.000+11:002005-02-16T12:13:59.140+11:00

Eeehhh..... I'm *so* mad I could crush a grape!I *thought* I had the backups for the other dictionaries... but it turns out they aren't onsite at all. I'm now searching through the old database files in the vain hope I can locate something to let me rebuild them. Grrr.....

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1108453155942202352005-02-15T18:13:00.000+11:002005-02-15T18:39:15.943+11:00

Errr.....Well ok.... so I might've exaggerated a bit about how soon I'd be able to get onto the site to improve, sort, include, add... etc, etc.I can come up with all sorts of excuses... bad back, sickness, new foster kids, Xmas, New Year... err.... well all sorts of things... but at the end of the day I've just not had time to get into the site propery... well ok - at all... honest!! Would I lie

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Almost there, we're almost there... Yes... Dmitry has managed to overcome my gross misuse of his software and has got the whole slang section of the Dictionary back online - well done Dmitry! Lord knows how you did it but I am *so* grateful. We still don't yet have the playground games, playground songs and chants or the rugby song collections but at least the worst is over. And yes, there are

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Was I frightened? Wouldn't you be? As you can see, the site is on it's way to recovery. Dmitry has upgraded the software to the latest version (1.6.4) and as far as I can see all he needs to do is import all the terms. From now on I think we need to make sure the site is upgraded version for version so avoid major jumps... and also to do regular backups! At the very least we owe Dmitry a large

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1100346838628310972004-11-13T22:46:00.000+11:002004-11-13T22:53:58.626+11:00

OK... something ain't right here! Well ok Dmitry is working on the site... but currently we seem to have lost all the dictionaries.... in fact the entire site other than this page! Come to that the logos have changed to display the Glossword native ones. Err... I hope he can fix this!! I'll be on pins now 'til its sorted :( Bear with us.... I'm sure it'll all be alright soon.... won't it??

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Well... I'm back! Unfortunately it looks like the site isn't - all I can say is aaarrggghhh...! Anyway. My abject apologies to all who visited and found they were greeted by a blank page when they tried to access the dictionary. Apparently during a server upgrade the index file was corrupted and so the site won't load. Of course the data is still there hidden in the depths of the database so

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1090976544327800352004-07-28T10:58:00.000+10:002004-07-28T11:02:24.326+10:00

Strange but True Since the ODPS forums opened, new submissions have dropped to an all time low! Maybe visitors think the forum is the place to leave new words, but when they get there - find it's weird and forget :) If you want to leave new words, games etc, either fill in the submission/feedback form at the top of the page - or just mail me direct! All mail is read and all submissions are

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1089167756783461092004-07-07T12:31:00.000+10:002004-07-07T19:53:17.213+10:00

ODPS News: Got bored with the look of the front page so did a few changes - like add a few books we liked the look of. We may well change the entire front page eventually... but this'll do for now. Forum News: No real changes there - and of course it's still early days. There is a load of configuration work to be done but it's still very useable. If there are changes you'd like done faster

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1088896425335140362004-07-04T09:04:00.000+10:002004-07-04T09:13:45.336+10:00

Forum News: Things are moving along slowly but surely. We had a minor hitch the other day when I cleverly blanked out the entire site for a few hours... but thanks to major support from the guys at Xoops.org the site soon reappeared. Visitors are dropping by, but seem a little reluctant as yet to join in. This could be because the site doesn't seem to be fully developed - but if that is the

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1088378654328182252004-06-28T09:21:00.000+10:002004-06-28T09:24:14.326+10:00

Online Dictionary of Playground Slang - Forums: Still here and the news site is looking better than ever. The forums are actually working now (apologies to people who couldn't access them) and the theme is a bit brighter. As far as I can see we're ready to rock so I'll be amending the links on this page to show forum access as part of the menu. All we need now..... is for you to come along in

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Online Dictionary of Playground Slang - Forums: Well, the forum site is now at least active (click above)! We are now sitting and waiting for your input to decide which direction the the site will move. One of the topic sections to be added will include submissions we need definitions for, another will be for discussing whether some entries deserve to be there or not. For example we recently

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1088047575163406282004-06-24T13:23:00.000+10:002004-06-24T13:26:49.123+10:00

Err.... apologies.. .... changed my mind... Having spent a couple of days fiddling around both with Mambo which is currently on odps.net, and PostNuke which I have on another site, I think PostNuke is probably the more 'powerful' of the two. It seems to me that since we haven't yet had too many visitors from ODPS 'proper' that I ought to just drop Mambo and move to PostNuke now rather than

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1087946696145945592004-06-23T09:19:00.000+10:002004-06-23T09:24:56.146+10:00

Forums: OK.... I gave up and went back to Mambo on the basis that if I don't do something then nothing will be done. It's installed as a 'bare' site at http://odps.net/CMS/index.php but only available to those of you who read this! So if you want to be "in on the ground floor" and help design the place, here's your chance! What you decide now will direct the way the forums develop so if there

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1087786979460280602004-06-21T12:56:00.000+10:002004-06-21T13:02:59.460+10:00

Gawd.... Blogger is driving me crazy! I worked out what the problem is eventually despite having had them look at the site a few times. It seems that despite my changing the settings, when I republished it refused to save them and continued to use the old settings. Ah well.... the wonders of modern technology. On the other hand, I understand that invitations to gMail are only being given out to

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Forum Update.. So I tried out Mambo, and PostNuke, and I can't say either of them were particularly appealing to me. Either Mambo or I were too 'simple' and I wasn't fussed on PostNukes ability to change themes depending on the users fancy - tho bearing in mind how powerful it is this really shouldn't matter. I suppose I want to keep some consistency of style between the dictionaries and the

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Aha! Just discovered that the past few missives didn't get here.... why I didn't notice when I visited the site don't ask. Anyway... moving along from the embarrassment... I have had a few queries about when the forums will be in place. Well up until a few weeks ago they were all ready to fly, just needing some adjustment to the entry page. Then our hosting service moved all to a new server and

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1085008872332539362004-05-20T09:14:00.000+10:002004-05-20T09:21:12.333+10:00

Geez... ... doesn't time fly when you're having fun? It doesn't seem so long since I last added to the the blog, but it's been months (sorry). All sorts of things have been going on, none of which I'll bore you with but it's kept me away from the site for long periods. However we're back now and will be adding in all the words you've sent in. Also I'll be taking a close look at the forums Kyte

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Yaaaawwwnnnn..... OK - Christmas and New Year are over and gone so it's back to the same old same old. Kyte has installed the forums on the server but they're not yet running properly due to a slight disagreement over the final look af the portal. No doubt once she has again rearranged my facial features, she'll get her own way and the forums will be active. Other than that I'd like to thank

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And a happy Christmas to one and all. Except of course those woeful individuals who exercised their right to free speech by dumping on the printed version of the site (Dictionary of Playground Slang) at Amazon UK. If any of you have a few minutes to spare we'd really appreciate your nipping over to the site and giving us a more balanced review.... pretty please?? Moving on, the ODPS has had a

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1-2-3 Jump... Hey hey -we're 'live'!! For those of you new to the site, and the regulars who've been redirected from the old 'cyberscriber' site - welcome. For the newbies, look around and have fun. I've not set up an FQA yet but will do so in response to the questions that come in - and there're bound to be a few! For the old hands you'll see a few real changes. For a start the search function

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1068524491136094062003-11-11T15:21:00.000+11:002003-11-11T15:21:55.466+11:00

Oh the joys of editing! Well to start with it means I get to laugh again at all the stuff that arrives. On the other hand I just uploaded 600 words to the Dictionaries and feel shattered. Serves me right for doing it in bulk I suppose. Either way, the new site is almost ready to go 'live' but first I'm going to take a stab at adding as many of the words from the 'old' site as I can before I

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So... At last the book is on sale in the UK at least and I can relax. Some of you may have caught my embarrasingly amateur interviews on Five Live, Radio Newcastle, Radio Three Counties etc et. for which I apologise :) I think now though that the main pressure is off at last and I can start to properly populate the new site and I can only apologise profusely to everyone who has sent in words

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-1066701461871277612003-10-21T11:57:00.000+10:002003-10-21T11:57:41.303+10:00

We're off!! Ok, the book is published. It's on pre order at Amazon (click here) and ready to go. The cover looks great. The content is as bad as it can be and still be legal and is an ideal Xmas present for anyone you hate.... or love.... life is odd like that. I look forward to seeing you at the book signings. Bring your camera and I'll even grimace a bit for you :)

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So.... long time no write. But at least there's something definite about the book. The copy has been submitted, as has the bio and a couple of piccies. Release date is around October in the UK and November in Aus - not sure about other release points yet - but it'll be available through Amazon and as soon as I have the details I'll post a banner onsite. Remember folks, this book is a sure fire

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Interesting bit of news for you... The ODPS has been talking to a publisher about the possibility of getting the old girl into print. Well...... we signed our contract a week or two ago and are waiting on the return of their copies, but it look as if the book of the site of the slang of the playgrounds of long ago may become a reality. The version to be published will be 'edited' of course...

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Another day dawns and the sparrows cough a happy tune to greet the dawn. Well ok I lied. It's 10:00 at night in Sydney, Australia and still warm and humid despite being the last day of summer. Nights are drawing in rapidly but we do at least wake to the sound of dawn breaking. The new site is still no better than it was I'm afraid. No extra words added and none of the duplicate entries removed

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-898290782003-02-27T20:49:00.000+11:002003-02-27T20:52:05.000+11:00

Oh bugger........ Well...... no real idea what happened... but virtually all of the new site got wiped today. This is as they say "a bit of a bugger" and means the whole thing has to be knocked up from scratch again and all the data previously entered and uploaded also has to be re-entered - happy days. Annoying yes - but we have to remember these things happen from time to time. Luckily of

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Oops.... sorry. In the eagerness to get the trial site up and on show, we forgot to change some of the links to reflect the online situation - in other words they link to the 'test area' rather than where the files were actually loaded. We'll attend to it as soon as we can - probably tomorrow. In the meantime thanks for pointing it out.. work is in progress!! If any other little quirks pop

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It's a long, long road.... etc Slowly but surely the old words are moving into the new site. It's taking a long time and we're noticing some idiosyncracies with Glossword that we hadn't really been aware off before. One obvious one is that the html formatting isn't apparant in the short version of an entry. So for example, if the original has a rhyme in it, in the short version you see one

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-896905022003-02-25T15:24:00.000+11:002003-02-25T15:24:10.606+11:00

And so it goes.... The new interface seems to have been well received so far. We've begun populating it with words, games and songs/rhymes but it'll be a longish process so I hope you'll bear with us. The site designer, Kyte, has implemented Planarchy as the blogprog of choice... but for whatever reason it currently won't auto-upload so we're doing a manual jobby. Some even more exciting news

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-896291222003-02-24T13:31:00.000+11:002003-02-24T20:49:27.000+11:00

Oh dear what can the matter be... How peculiar! Dropped info. into the blog but it didn't appear onsite. Teething troubles maybe. If this doesn't arrive I might move to planarchy just for the hell of it! On the other hand maybe I'm just too damn impatient......

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-896267802003-02-24T12:47:00.000+11:002003-02-24T20:48:42.000+11:00

New Dictionary Format/Interface Ok. For anyone interested the interface has been loaded up to the host. So far it's not populated (i.e. no words to look at) but it's there if you'd like to make comments on useability etc. I quite like the functionality, but I really miss the look and feel of the old site. You can find the new version here. (http://www.odps/index.htm if the link fails for

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-895472842003-02-22T22:43:00.000+11:002003-02-22T22:45:22.000+11:00

Still working on Blogger... it's fun actually. There are all sorts of formatting errors to make and bits of the template to ruin. Maybe an upgrade to Blogger Pro might be worthwhile. On the other hand there's Planarchy which also looks as if it might repay investigating!

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-895456412003-02-22T21:14:00.000+11:002003-02-22T21:14:23.310+11:00

It occurs to me that anyone reading this will wonder who the hell 'Sky' or Skyrider' is. Well obviously that's me. When meandering around the newsgroups as is my wont I use the name 'Sky Rider' (or variations). I've been using it for 3 - 4 years now and it's become second nature to me. I could use 'Chris Lewis' of course, but that's such a boring name. You'll find me hanging out in well worn

Skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04706253992615388462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5088279.post-895452632003-02-22T20:52:00.000+11:002003-02-22T21:16:02.000+11:00

OK... I think I'm finally getting the hang of this now. I'm writing this 'blog' for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I want to pass on information about the development of the ODPS as it grows and changes. Secondly because I talk a lot naturally and being alone at the computer means I have a lot of time to spend with nobody to whinge at! And pretty much because I can ( I loves computers me..

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