Dunno if there's special significance to the date.
The special significance is that's the date we start the end of the year thread on.
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
DXMachina - Dec 03, 2007 4:28:10 am PST #2079 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
SailAweigh - Dec 03, 2007 4:44:45 pm PST #2080 of 6786
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Could a stompy go look at my links in F2F? Folks are getting 404 messages, yet I'm (fairly) sure I wrote them all up correctly.
Liese S. - Dec 03, 2007 4:56:11 pm PST #2081 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Looks like it had smart quotes instead of straight quotes, and the board was not liking that much. Try it now.
SailAweigh - Dec 03, 2007 5:02:27 pm PST #2082 of 6786
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
What's the difference, Liese? I don't want to have that happen on me again.
DXMachina - Dec 03, 2007 5:20:42 pm PST #2083 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Smart quotes are what happens when a program like Word converts pairs of normal keyboard quotation marks to the 66 99 style quotation marks.
SailAweigh - Dec 03, 2007 5:25:17 pm PST #2084 of 6786
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Well, so much for composing long posts in Word. Or at least, leave the quotes out until I put it in the posting box. Thanks!
DXMachina - Dec 03, 2007 5:33:01 pm PST #2085 of 6786
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You can turn off smart quotes in Word. It's an option somewhere.
SailAweigh - Dec 03, 2007 5:39:42 pm PST #2086 of 6786
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Found it and turned off. Thanks, DX. I had no idea there was a difference.
Ginger - Dec 03, 2007 5:39:50 pm PST #2087 of 6786
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've turned off smart quotes in Word because they make HTML unhappy. It's under Format | Autoformat | Options.
Laura - Dec 04, 2007 2:44:40 am PST #2088 of 6786
Our wings are not tired.
Ah, I knew they had to be replaced, but didn't know how to turn them off. Cool, and thanks.