OopsIE
10/06/13 at 14:34 EST

Decided to give IE compatibility another shot.

Didn't go well. I temporarily broke the entire site.

We here at the awplog apologize for any disturbances our actions may have had on our non-IE users. We here at the awplog also apologize for whatever disturbances IE's actions have on the rest of you. Such as a lack of compatibility with CSS.

I can't help but feel that there's some simple solution to the issue, such as adding a "ver=1.4" somewhere or something that tells IE to do things correctly. I think, rather than block IE out, I'm just going to allow it with a warning. Or three.
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IP Recognition Completed
10/06/08 at 01:33 EST

The IP Recognition feature is now complete and, after very basic testing, seems to be working. You should now only need to go through the trouble of providing a name and entering a CAPTCHA once. Well, "once" - this assumes that you only comment once before it gets stuck in my message queue and subsequently approved. Basically, once I've approved the first message from any given IP address, the rest will be auto-approved. There are still many tweaks to be done, but for now it's good.

I have some grave news, on the other hand. At roughly 10:35pm today, 22 of my comrades have fallen, never again to experience life. The lower battery connector pin, which I broke off when replacing the battery in my Pokemon Silver cartridge, came loose earlier today, effectively wiping my cartridge data. I've repaired it as effectively as I repaired it earlier, which means in another 15 hours of game time I will again lose everything I have grown to love. Rather than suffer that heartbreak again, I'm just going to buy a soldering iron and fix it properly.

By the way, a word of caution to the home viewers: you cannot presently change your username once you've made an approved comment. This feature will come eventually, but I'm sure you all know by now how timely I am when it comes to implementing these things. I'll also be posting some informal "rules" at some point as well regarding commenting etiquette, but for the time being please observe two suggestions:

1 - Don't be a douchebag. This includes flooding, spamming etc. and excessive vulgarity.
2 - Don't pretend to be someone else. If the someone else you're trying to be contacts me saying that you're not them, I will ban you.

Gawd dammit I had 7 badges and a crack team of two good, two okay and two mediocre pokemon, too...
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Recognizing a familiar IP
10/06/07 at 00:28 EST

I've decided to begin implementation on a long-overdue feature addition to the site. I don't foresee a particularly long development time; all the difficult parts are done. On the other hand, don't blame me if the comment system is broken for the next couple days though.

Well, okay, if it is broken, it is entirely my fault. But you know how I love this lax, unprofessional development method, right? Actually, it just occurred to me that I can very easily take a safer development approach, but if I didn't break anything tonight - and I feel safe enough that I didn't - it might provide me with some preemptive real data to use. Not to mention my curiosity.
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