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Jon B. - Oct 08, 2002 5:35:35 pm PDT #617 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

See my edit above, ita.

edit: (Hec went to Ellen's without me. Gotta run!)


Betsy HP - Oct 08, 2002 5:54:57 pm PDT #618 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

Something is going wrong with the code that parses links. See

Ouise "Natter: 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten!" Oct 8, 2002 7:51:59 pm EDT

for an example. I think this only happens when the poster enters the <a href=""> manually.

[Testing: Does this mess up? Nope. Maybe this?]


Betsy HP - Oct 08, 2002 5:57:10 pm PDT #619 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

Or maybe it's just me.


Ouise - Oct 08, 2002 6:01:39 pm PDT #620 of 10000
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.

I think the problem was that I forgot to close the quotation marks around the URL the first two or three times I tried to get that post right. I didn't notice until I tried the type-everything-out-again method of fixing it.


§ ita § - Oct 09, 2002 12:05:14 am PDT #621 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Implemented:

  • No more 0 new
  • Quote season and episode now in the header for the quotes that have them.


Jon B. - Oct 09, 2002 6:30:43 am PDT #622 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Sweeeeet!


Jesse - Oct 09, 2002 7:55:04 am PDT #623 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yr so fancy!


DXMachina - Oct 09, 2002 8:26:21 am PDT #624 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

On the archives, I've threadsucked everything that's in the attic, and I'll try to get most of it up to the archives page this weekend. I'm still bugged by the fact that the threadsucks are missing posts. It's a random thing, probably caused by that banner ad that WX puts at the bottom of random pages, but the upshot is that there are posts missing. I have an idea about how to improve the threadsuck program, but I didn't get a chance to mention it to John before he left on holiday.

As an alternative, I tried accessing the WX forums using the newsreader in Mozilla, and was able to download the Contingency Plan and Projects that way, but each forum is a single file containing all the posts in all the threads. I ran into a snag with that method, too, because it refuses to download NAFDA for me. I freely admit that I am a newbie when it comes to NNTP, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.


Jessica - Oct 09, 2002 8:29:58 am PDT #625 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Why did the "0 new" go away? Did people not like it?


DXMachina - Oct 09, 2002 8:39:13 am PDT #626 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I know that I didn't like "0 new". I think that having "x new" appear only when there are new posts will be especially helpful to make the Beep Me and Press threads stand out when there are new items.