Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...

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Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2002 10:50:49 pm PDT #265 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Cool. That was mega-quick.


§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:52:23 pm PDT #266 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

John's good like that.


John H - Sep 19, 2002 10:57:01 pm PDT #267 of 10000

John's good like that.

You're very kind, but it's the classic beginner's mistake with regexes. "Dot-star is almost never what you want" -- Jeffrey E Friedel, Mastering Regular Expressions, O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.


§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:59:24 pm PDT #268 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it's the classic beginner's mistake with regexes

Well, some of us beginners never got that far.


Alibelle - Sep 19, 2002 11:52:35 pm PDT #269 of 10000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

Yes -- it's for table width. It used to be a sentence. Spaces wouldn't have the same effect.

Is anyone else desperately curious about what that sentence was?


§ ita § - Sep 20, 2002 2:49:52 am PDT #270 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nothing scandalous ...

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Anne W. - Sep 20, 2002 8:06:46 am PDT #271 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I'd love to the How-To or HTML bits cover how to turn a long, obnoxious link to one of those tidy, one-word hyperlinks.

Other than that, I am loving this board!


Jessica - Sep 20, 2002 8:10:00 am PDT #272 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Anne, it's in the FAQ


DXMachina - Sep 20, 2002 8:12:08 am PDT #273 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Anne, here's the format of the tag

<a href="http://putthe urlhere">One-word-hyperlink</a>


Anne W. - Sep 20, 2002 9:15:18 am PDT #274 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Durrr.....

My bad. I looked through the FAQ, but never saw it. Oh, well.

Thanks for the help.