woot! ben is the hero! and hegel is impossible to understand no matter what speed you read him at, so no matter.
It kills me to say this, but much thanks, Ben.
The "Innocence" thread loads as quickly as you could expect such a monstrous document to load! So quickly that it seems churlish to mention the run amok italics, and the seemingly total elimination of paragraphing, which I suspect to be related.
(Don't worry about this right now. Read Hegel.)
Hey, this looks pretty good. Here's hoping it solves the problem.
Hey man, I just copy 'em from the database.
Thanks Ben! Oddly, this archive page shows 0 comments on each thread but all the comments are there. Other archive pages I've recently clicked on show the correct comment numbers (I think).
Until Unfogged is willing to accept money, I'm just a happy freeloader, happy with whatever makes it work.
And...I spent about a month when I was 18 diagramming sentences in about 30 pages of The Phenomenology of Spirit. I wish you--and everyone--more efficiency.
And, w-lfs-n, as grateful as I am to you for your site maintenance, may I suggest that you'd be a far more effective Little Bitch if you had Garner's American Usage on your desk?
The posts on all the archive pages prior to this one erroneously report 0 comments. A transient thing?
Huh, I was wrong, but not in a good way.
That some entries describe themselves as having zero comments is a side-effect of the solution. Think of it this way: delightful surprises!
First, Ben, I owe you an obeisance of your choosing.
Second, does the existence of the archive database mean that we'd be able to revert to the old way of doing things, if one day we came into possession of a non-sucky database program?
That is one of many things it means, young standpipe.
Truly, its significations are as numerous as the stars in the heavens, but that one burns brightest in the telescope of my naïveté.
Gosh, Ben, I'd love to tell you how awesome you are, but I don't think I could possibly top your own self-regard. So really, what would be the point?
I think it's kind of sad that you have to result to petty sniping when you see someone with even a glimmer of self-confidence and worthiness.
I actually think I detect hurt feelings in 18. In all sincerity, I apologize. And thanks for sacrificing your day on our behalf.
17: Jeebus, B. That seemed really unnecessary. He did fix the blog, after all.
Anyway, you don't need to top my self-regard, just add to it.
Incorporate 5 by reference.
Geez, Tim. B had already mentioned feeling badly in 19, and I'm certain that had posted and you read it before. Why do you want to make B feel extra bad?
Also, I declare this the thread where everyone misunderstands everyone else's comment.
Having Garner's American Usage on your desktop would I to your self-regard; I can just imagine how, um... correct... you would be.
No worries, Tim can't make me feel extra bad. My own self-regard is way too high for that.
I was trying to tease Ben about his last martyrish paragraph, and I fucked up the tone. Will teach me to comment after midnight, I suppose.
last martyrish paragraph
Whenever anyone uses the phrase "slaving over a hot $X", you can be sure that he's not being serious.
Yeah, that's right. "He".
I knew you weren't being serious! I was trying to be equally unserious!
Only I'm not nearly as clever as you are, so I just can't pull it off. Also, I really suck.
Hooray! w-lfs-n rulz!1!
Ah, but is this the end of Innocence?
Ah, but is this the end of Innocence?
It was over already -- B-Wo had previously put in a hack where if you tried to comment, an error message would come up that said, "Sorry, w-lfs-n won." (DAMHIKT)
I think it's kind of sad that you have to result to petty sniping when you see someone with even a glimmer of self-confidence and worthiness.
/SALB
The pervasive italicizing continues to mystify me.
31 - Woo, Ben!!
32 - That's probably just someone who forgot to close an end tag.
32 - I bet it requires a data fix, not a script fix. Unless you want to go all-out and make sure all tags are closed before starting the next comment.
Italics: fixed, I think! Lemme know if there are problems.
Not a big deal, but I'm getting a script error on line 16 for the archived comments. I think:
<body onload="T_onLoad();">
should probably just be
<body>
The T_onload(); was for Tom's remember position script, which isn't in the archived comments.
I propose that you invoke the awesome powers of sed to fix this, while I go to class.
Some of the archived comments aren't formatted like the originals, I've noticed. For example, paragraphs are running together, and there's a big spot of italics all through one page. It's not a big deal though.
Oh, I see you already knew about that. Let me see if I see the same problems.
Give her a break, she's probably still drunk. At least, I assume that's why we haven't seen a Taylor Hicks post.
Well, there was this.
I did rather expect something more visible, though.
38 - Will do, after work. Just wanted to give you a heads up so you could change the script, too, in case we regerate the pages.
Excuse me, Becks, but we're trying to have a conversation here.
38 - Awesome powers of sed invoked. HTML pages fixed.