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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 2:26:45 pm PST #1294 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

But why are the remaining verses in a new font size?

An excellent question for which I have no answer. You'd think they'd all use the browser default, but the open t pre tag is causing all sorts of zany behavior.

Can someone link to the discussion of structure from before? Was it in the Bad Old Days on WX or what?

I remember ita posting a lovely diagram of the structure, which was promptly eaten by a WX outage later that night.


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 3:04:20 pm PST #1295 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Proposed episode ERD


Jon B. - Nov 08, 2002 3:08:22 pm PST #1296 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Getting back to the problem of IDing when someone's tag is more than 255 characters, I just spotted this script in a email newsletter I get. It's pretty nifty, though it may be overkill. Interestingly, it seems to count the carriage return as two characters, which is what we wanted. I'm confused as to why it's doing that since it's using the same length method as what I was testing with before.


Holli - Nov 08, 2002 3:22:58 pm PST #1297 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I'll find Dead Gay Larry.

Which is such an odd sentence, when you've looked at it for a while.


Michele T. - Nov 08, 2002 3:45:32 pm PST #1298 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

ita, what do you mean by "quote editing"?


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 3:51:35 pm PST #1299 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Right now quotes are added and edited through straight SQL. There's no programmatic interface for it, and as such the process is very inefficient (send quote to Hec who formats them and sends them to me).

Instead of an interface where people can add quote that are then approved by admins, who can also correct existing quotes.


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 11:10:02 pm PST #1300 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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§ ita § - Nov 08, 2002 11:26:38 pm PST #1301 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Gah. We talk a lot.

I talk a lot.

Anyway, we're currently okay with monthly bandwidth, but we're eating diskspace like nobody's business. We've been live almost 2 months and we're 44% through our HD storage.

We can upgrade as far as 550MB (we're currently at 154 of 350). But that's more money. And then what?

It's late, and I'm out of bright ideas.


John H - Nov 08, 2002 11:27:10 pm PST #1302 of 10000

raunchy mature

If ever there was a porn star name...


P.M. Marc - Nov 08, 2002 11:28:23 pm PST #1303 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

What's the size of each 10k thread?

How comes the archiving notion?