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  1. It's nice when your IDE can define your problem for you. Apparently I'm going to have to take something back - the categorization is probably (not certain, but probably), NOT going to take hundreds of hours as previously thought in the last blog entry. Due to the amazing powers of Java and JavaScript, I have rigged up a much more sophisticated search system than the Ctrl-F bar, which returns all of the posts that contain a certain word. (This is the net equivalent of the archives search feature, which, for those who don't remember, was agony. Much scrolling.) Using the same system of code, however, I can narrow the search "frame" down to the answers themselves, as opposed to the posts, to an extent. This will help extremely. (Oh how long have I dreamed...) Also I found this, which is much cause for celebration. Not only is this exhaustive list of almost all categories related to Bionicle, courtesy of a certain wiki staff near you, but it also comes in alphabetical order, to which I am extremely grateful. (I might need to prune it a bit, though. ) (Did you know that there were pillars of salt in Bionicle? I didn't.) Anyway, so getting the reference (in theory) is just a matter of throwing the categories into the search system, and pulling the results. And thanks to the wonders of modern programming, this can be totally 100% automated. (Do not destroy Google. ) This means that it can be done rather quickly. However, given that my answer-winnowing system is based on numbers, and otherwise the thing will return the post, I'm going to get a lot of discussion posts (with no answers) and tons of dupe answers, because answers were quoted and repeated twice. Also it's inevitable that some of the answers will escape even the finest of search nets. But all of those problems can be solved. The last problem appears to be the easiest, because I can just search the categories against the original document and remove any auto-categorized answers. This will leave the rest, which I can do by hand. Dupe answers might be eliminated on a string-matching system. The discussion post problem I'm not sure about, but if worst comes to worst, I can remove them myself. (Although I've thought of, since I have all the numbered questions and answers, I can just pull those, search separately, etc, and avoid this problem, although not all Qs and As were numbered, so I'll have to go back after and grab the others. I have options.) And then I have to check through the whole thing in case any weird errors and stuff happened, and make sure all the categories are complete. (Computers are brainless.) And all of this has to be done for all three documents, and the categorization stuff merged. The original Greg Discussion is probably going to be the hardest, because some of the answers were numbered using <ul>s and <li>s, not actual numbers, so I'm going to have to adjust for that somehow. But I will. Then I have to work in those Greg Topics I scrambled from after the archive crash. Most of the stuff is from 2003, although there's stuff from 2008 in there I don't want to see disappear. (Lazy fishers hasn't released that, because I have to rename all of the ~460 topics somehow. I also need to merge them together so they're searchable (easy), and categorize (hard)...don't know how to automate that. Maybe I'll think of something.) Lastly, I have to do the Erebus topics and JAG18's LMB stuff, but that's a snap (bones already helped. Thank You, although I will check your work. ). Mostly the big deal is getting the three OGD topics categorized though, and back on BZP! So I'll get back to it.
    3 points
  2. Not just one, all of them. Every single one. I am probably going to spend the better part of this evening after class changing mine on six email accounts, four forums, two social networking sites, my paypal, my bandcamp, both of my bank accounts, and on steam, as well as memorizing all of those. Delightful.
    3 points
  3. That many staff members in one place can never be good I kid, of course. Considering my display name, I will imagine that I was the topic of a heated debate that involved ballistic spaghetti bombs, farm animals, hats, and roughly five crates of chocolate milk.
    3 points
  4. Y'know, you really dropped the ball here, Jess. The hands can't hold an instrument or a bow, the shoulders are above the head so it cant see itself playing the legs are a terrible layout for square dancing, and the colors make no sense in the middle of a hoedown. I give you a point for it looking like a cohesive unit, but you lose that point for this not being able to fiddle at all.
    2 points
  5. No, that's a mistake. Continue to act if this didn't happen. If she doesn't know that she's nicked you, she will think your behavior to be cold.
    2 points
  6. Hey, guys. Recently I downloaded the zip.exe program from this website in order to compress my files into the EPUB format (I'm learning ebook formatting, BTW, and the guide I am using said I needed this program in order to make my ebook). But while I managed to download the program with zero problems, it's acting up on my Windows 8 computer. Every time I try to open it, it opens and then immediately closes before I can use it. It just won't stay open for some reason. I did some googling and found a website that said it might be Norton's fault, so I uninstalled Norton from my computer and tried again but that didn't work either. So if you think it's has something to do with Norton, it doesn't. I've spent hours looking for a solution online and I couldn't find anything relevant to my problem, so I decided to post this on my blog in case any of the more tech-savvy members here know what the problem is or can at least point me in the right direction so I can figure it out on my own. Any and all help is highly appreciated. And if I wasn't clear enough, feel free to ask for more info. This is really important to me and I really would like to get it figure out as soon as possible. -TNTOS-
    1 point
  7. Greninja is playable. Mega Lucario. Mega Charizard X. Mega Man's Final Smash includes Megaman.EXE and Geo Stelar. Is that my wallet crying or is that just me?
    1 point
  8. just a quick pic of something i threw together around a claw concept with the new beast heads might put this on the convention circuit with a couple other MOCs i need to make finishing touches on
    1 point
  9. I never realized how out of touch I was with the Kentoku topic
    1 point
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  11. Actually, it was because your name had a non-standard character in it ... until Bossman Sixxer removed it.
    1 point
  12. You're probably reading too much into this. She probably just sat at a different table for other reasons and had no idea that it hurt your feelings.
    1 point
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