Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Buffistas Building a Better Board  

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

To-do list


CaBil - Nov 20, 2002 7:47:36 pm PST #1684 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Who recieves buffista money? Was it Jesse? Got a check from cafepress I need to throw into the pile.


DavidS - Nov 20, 2002 10:02:44 pm PST #1685 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Was it Jesse?

She and Sophia are the bankers.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 21, 2002 6:43:43 am PST #1686 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

You do send the money to Jesse. Do you need her address?


msbelle - Nov 21, 2002 9:41:36 am PST #1687 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh look posts in BBaBB that I understand.

now talk some code again! t channeling Wanda-like person


CaBil - Nov 21, 2002 11:56:28 am PST #1688 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.

Sophia, I just got Jesse's address. Thanks!


§ ita § - Nov 21, 2002 2:21:32 pm PST #1689 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hostrocket has told me they can't offer CVS for our purposes. I've replied asking them for what purposes it's usable.


Karl - Nov 21, 2002 2:39:29 pm PST #1690 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

I'll be over here, setting something up in case hostrocket doesn't work out. ita, profile addy is good if you need anything from me.


Rob - Nov 21, 2002 2:57:18 pm PST #1691 of 10000

I think we should just go with Karl's machine.


§ ita § - Nov 21, 2002 3:07:26 pm PST #1692 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Karl, yell when you have something set up we can poke, can you?


John H - Nov 21, 2002 4:10:06 pm PST #1693 of 10000

they can't offer CVS for our purposes

I think in this case that "for your purposes" is just one of those meaningless strings that businesses add to the end of sentences so they won't just say "No.".

In other news, the last approach to parsing HTML, where I processed all end tags against start tags, is fatally flawed, as it will pass this:

</i><i>

as perfectly good code, what with the matching and the cancelling and the flavin.

Order is important. So, here's the new theory. We count all troublesome starting tags, and if there's a matching end-tag for them, we delete both. That won't find really curly problems but it will at least make a cursory inspection and identify unclosed tags.

Is it just me, or does that seem too easy? It would find unclosed table tags and unmatched TD tags.