We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.

Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'


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Elena - Nov 23, 2002 11:09:16 pm PST #1721 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

I couldn't connect to the front page for about 30 minutes (ah, 12:30 to 1am, AST; getting server not found) and then managed to log in, get to natter, then I couldn't move off of the single natter page I was on for 20 or so minutes - no error message, it just kept saying it was contacting the server and didn't go anywhere (I tried clicking on 'read new', 'message centre' and 'next' with no success). Seems fine now. and it might be my connection, which has been ungodly slow tonight.


esse - Nov 24, 2002 1:07:25 am PST #1722 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

The same thing happened to me; I kept getting a "Page Not Found," or "Page Cannot Be Displayed." Then, when I logged on, the entire right-side bar was gone, which was quite jarring. Then I reloaded about ten minutes later, and everything was fine.


Rob - Nov 24, 2002 1:13:40 am PST #1723 of 10000

Though we might have to utter a "Macs are better" watchword if Daniel C. Jensen ever effects his rise to power.

Daniel, when it's time, I'll back your play.


Jim - Nov 24, 2002 2:41:39 am PST #1724 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Rob, Daniel, it's a slippery slope: [link]


P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2002 6:12:41 pm PST #1725 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

CRAP!

Okay, I broke it. Single quote/double quote.


P.M. Marc - Nov 24, 2002 6:13:13 pm PST #1726 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

Never mind, I seem to be able to delete.


John H - Nov 26, 2002 11:50:42 pm PST #1727 of 10000

Dudes. Finally got a moment: check out [link] which tests, in very mechanical fashion, for unclosed HTML tags.

For each start tag, there either is or isn't an end tag, found later in the text. That's all it does but after much messing around that seems to be what we need, really.

See if you can fool it, please?

And PHP gurus, what's the neat way to do:

$array2 = (all the values in $array1 which aren't empty strings)

once again I can't figure it out for myself.


§ ita § - Nov 27, 2002 12:02:15 am PST #1728 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You want array_filter used with a callback function:

Like

function notblank($val) { return ($val<>"")};

$array2 = array_filter($array1, "notblank");

Standard typo and thinko disclaimers apply.


John H - Nov 27, 2002 2:39:41 pm PST #1729 of 10000

array_filter used with a callback function

You know what, I used that, and tried to do it with the built-in "empty" function, but it didn't seem to work with that, only the way you did it, where you write your own.

Not to get all Perl about it, but it doesn't have the pure poetry of:

@newarray = grep {length($_)} @oldarray;

does it?


§ ita § - Nov 27, 2002 2:45:22 pm PST #1730 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Even ee might think your poetry a little opaque.