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Saturday
Apr 02
2011
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Welcome to the 350th issue. Okay, the the Q 'n' D program turned out to be more trouble than sending a probe to Mars. ;') It seemed to work like a freakin' charm a week ago, then wouldn't work when I got it home. I'm pretty sure the paint peeling was due to the language that resulted. You remember that old slogan -- "Profanity is the Sign of a Feeble Mind Trying to Express Itself Forcibly"? Well, the bastard who came up with that also came up missing one time, never was seen again. Not that it matters, but I have an alibi.
The other project was an update for the List Management program, which is also in Chipmunk BASIC. I had a better version than the one I found easily, so this weekend I hammered on the older version for a while and greatly improved it. Pretty sure my language was profane during that process as well, not sure though, I blacked out from the blood pressure spike, and my elderly mother didn't hear the thud because she'd turned up the TV past the point of normal human endurance.
Life is a banquet.
Sooooo, the upshot is, I've got a knock 'em dead ping list manager that is just in HTML (using FRAMEs which are said to be obsolete, but then why do they still work? They still work because they're excellent), and now gives me a link for each member's Profile page (loads in a frame) and added a link to each "In Forum" to check for recent activity (this list is in the lefthand frame). There's a new pane in the lower left which is just large enough to have links for each ping list, and loads it into the upper left.
I finally buckled down and checked every member of the ping lists. Believe it or not, the Catastrophism list had six deletions of ex-FReepers, which was the same number of ex'es as the GGG lists combined had. I also dropped two more from the regular GGG list because I'm pretty sure they haven't been on FR in years. I found out about one because it was right on his Profile page. The other one I'd suspected for some time.
So, anyway, our membership count dropped a little. Nothing like the last time when we had to drop about twenty.
This whole running ordeal got me thinking about the next handy thing to have, an actual database of all my lists, so each member of any list will have check boxes for all the lists, right in a row. This would be for my own use only so no worries there.
Like I'm actually going to do that. ;') I'll update everyone about this project in 2017, right after President Palin is sworn in for her second term. Anyway:
GGG deletions 3/28/2011
- Androcles · posts (digest list)
- Big Guy and Rusty 99 · posts
- Bob J · posts
- Denver Ditdat · posts
- Habibi · posts
- IronKros · posts
- Keith Pickering · posts
- PRND21 · posts
I excluded one that merely redirected from the old FReeper handle to the new one (that's one of those services FR offers but doesn't mention, very handy for lost passwords and going on the lam, I suspect), but did update to the new handle. I found the new handle in at least two other of the ping lists I handle, so I'm sure that's on the up and up.
There were an average number of topics, and usually there's some area that has more stories than the rest. This week it appears to be Biblical history.
My flawlessly working program changed itself while I slept, because it's giving me the proverbial business. Therefore, once again, here's the links to topics that appeared this week (sorted newest to oldest):
Stuff that doesn't necessarily make it to GGG here on FR gets shared here:
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -- Abraham Lincoln [quoted by Dollycali]
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