Revision 2

[elfs]

I've posted revision 2 of the new site up. There's still more work to be done, but the fixes here are simple. I removed the rendering engine and instead posted static copies of the HTML, minimal HTML, and text versions. I'm not tracking cookies anymore, and this prevents the (ahem) accidental posting of some stories that shouldn't be up yet. I've also fixed some of the HTML-related errors in the documents themselves. I haven't fixed the minimal HTML yet. I did find the bug that was causing stories with ending ellipses in the titles to disappear, so that should be gone as well. And someone sent me some typos in Connected Electricities (including a misspelling of the title-- yikes! Thanks!).

And, as an inducement for you to bang on the site some more, I've posted Connected Responsibilities, the sequel to Connected Electricities. Enjoy it!

[Edit: The links to Connected Electricities ought to be working now. Dammit, the filename and title weren't put through the spell-checker!]

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Unrelated - I'm still looking at storage solutions for work and I can't remember the name of the company you work for.

Nice.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

One of these days I have to backtrack and read all the Journal Entries -- I haven't kept up in recent years.

Connected Electricities

[(Anonymous)]

I tried to get in to this from both the index and the link from your blog, and both fail. Also failing is the auto-suggest... it gives me the right story, but the link provided fails. Correcting the spelling in the blog URL gets me to it, however.

Re: Connected Electricities

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

I get a 404 on Connected Electricities right now. On all versions. Connected Responsibilities works fine.

[ladyerin.livejournal.com]

and this prevents the (ahem) accidental posting of some stories that shouldn't be up yet.

oh darn *beady little eyes twinkling* I was enjoying those ;)

[(Anonymous)]

"And someone sent me some typos in Connected Electricities"

That reminds me... a few years ago (29/10/2001 according to my mail archive) I send you a list with some typos, missing words and inconsistencies that I noticed while rereading the Journal Entries as far as they were published then. Not sure if that mail got lost or so as I never got a reply from you.

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The Kittenin' (0068/136):
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(Ember had been Dave's favorite for a long time, even before he'd been installed in the castle.) Problem here: Dave is older than Ember, and for Dave there is no "before he'd been installed" ("The Courage Of My Convictions" (0019/222): M'Ress told me just today that the AI will be ready for installation on schedule. I asked her to program the name 'David' into it.)
Starlight, Starbright, First Star I See My Life (0093/181):
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(A little shorter than I, Jahn is...) and (... this Uncia, small for his race but still larger than I...) doesn't fit together.

Interesting detail: Given a Pendor to Earth distance of 6.38 light years Pin will be visible from Earth on January 1st, 1984; 0100/001
When did you decide on the date for that story, and when did you decide that the distance Earth to Pendor is exactly 6.38 light years? (first mentioned in the Journal Entries in "Reunion, Part 2")

Terran Sands (0100/019):
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(there was no sense letting the Terrans) know (that.)
Geographic: The Eternal Answers (0100/171):
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In "Flags" (0100/064) Becky already knew a lot more about Pendor than this:
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She opened her planner and found a blank page in the back. "There's a great secret surrounding Pendor. One concerning the geography itself. Your collection of maps is entirely about Earth; there's not one reference in it to Pendorian maps, cities, towns, or anything like that. In some other documents there's mention of an Arc or a Ring, and a mention of 'the first shadow of night.' That appears so often I don't think it's poetic metaphor. Is Pendor really a world?"
She saw a look of surprise cross Ken's face, followed by a slow smile. "You've been doing your homework. Yes, Pendor is a world. It's at least as big as Earth. And there are some oddities with the geography. We want to keep some of that a secret until we reached Pendor. I'm feeling a flair for the dramatic. I'm sure in the first few days you're there you'll be able to find more than enough to keep yourselves busy for the entire year."
"It's at least as big as Earth," she repeated. "Is it any bigger?"
The grin grew large. "Probably." <-

Geographic: Family Photos (0100/243):
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("Bawr, don't be too hard him.") "on" is missing

Geographic: The Misanthrope (0100/245):
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(One that lived in an inland ocean had become and extreme example) "an" instead of "and"

("...although lower down you'll me in the immediate reach of the pamthreats.") "be" instead of "me"

("Some people think Dave or Hal was Crete") Dave did not exist during the construction of Pendor. A fact that should be common knowledge. ("The Courage Of My Convictions" (0019/222): M'Ress told me just today that the AI will be ready for installation on schedule. I asked her to program the name 'David' into it.)