I've slightly modified the style cookie system - namely, the cookie domain is now ".dragonflycave.com", which should mean that once the forums.dragonflycave.com subdomain gets working, the forums will be able to detect your main site style again. Unfortunately, at least for me, this meant my Firefox didn't actually change my style cookie when I switched styles, but instead created a new one (which was then ignored in favor of the old one when it came to actually detecting which style I'd chosen). Fortunately, this has a simple solution, namely just deleting the old cookie; if you're having problems with this, you can do so by clicking here, and afterwards you should be able to select a style again without problems. I recommend you do this now so that you won't encounter the problem later when you've forgotten about it and send me an angry error report.

UPDATE EDIT (02/28/10): The subdomain is now working. Everybody use it to access the forums now!

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After some prompting (read: flood of error reports) by sreservoir, I went and ran the entire site through the W3C markup validator to weed out the numerous typos and other errors that have been left in them over the years. Most of the affected pages just had something minor, but others had pretty bad mistakes, so it's good to have them fixed. Right now I believe the only invalid pages remaining should be Sections that Suck (thanks to containing a portion demonstrating poor HTML) and a couple of pages with embedded Javascripts that I was too lazy to move to an external file for the moment. And a couple get a warning about character encoding stuff, which I should also probably fix sometime but I have other stuff I need to do.

EDIT: Oh, and the new forum server is up and running. Big thanks to Kat of Eevee's HQ. Hopefully there will be no more database errors and blank pages and other server wonkiness.

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In what is almost definitely the most spectacularly pointless thing I have ever done for this site, I just made a snippet of code to automatically convert my numeric age into the wordy equivalent on my About Me page. So instead of saying I'm "20 years old at the moment", it now says I'm "twenty years old at the moment", and next year it will go on to automatically say I'm "twenty-one", and so on. Well, admittedly it will resort back to numbers when I get to a hundred, but the write-out-numbers rule mainly applies to numbers under that anyway, so there's no need to worry about that.

You might think this was just a random spur-of-the-moment thing, but no, the fact it wrote out a number has been bothering the hell out of me ever since I made the script to calculate my actual age so I wouldn't have to manually update it every year and this has pretty much been on my to-do list ever since. I think I've spent too much time telling fanfiction writers to write out numbers with letters.

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I randomly went and looked at the type quiz again, decided it was all awful, and rewrote the descriptions of all the types (plus putting fourth-generation sprites on the description pages instead of the third-generation ones). The actual quiz remains the same, however, so you're still the same type you used to be; the description has just become a lot more sensible and (hopefully) accurate.

Why, yes, it's twenty minutes past three in the morning on my twentieth birthday and I'm messing around with my Pokémon website. Why do you ask?

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Yes, yes, it's been quiet.

Anyway, I fixed an error that would come up if you entered a non-integer into the Zodiac script. I also went through several affiliation requests, and as so often when that happens, this inspired me to add and tweak things in my webmaster sections; in this case, I reorganized the Website Tips and added several, and rewrote the Site Rater page. Then I added Play-Asia links to pre-order the US versions of HeartGold and SoulSilver to the link bar. I don't know how many of you will bother to get it there instead of just physically going out and buying it when it's out, but it's there, and it'll be shipped outside of the US, so if you're too impatient to wait the two weeks before it's out where you live, this is something for you.

Oh, and I made a new entry at the Cave of Speculative Theories, if not a very interesting one, and a new Almighty Random Poll.

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Chapter twelve of Morphic is up. Yeah, Morphic. That thing still exists, believe it or not.

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Aaaand I've finally finished the ninth movie review. Man, this movie is weird.

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Perfectionist that I am, I just made a pointless little snippet of code that makes it so that if you are viewing the guestbook and click a link to an update from an update comment, it will actually detect if the relevant update has been moved to the Old Updates and redirect you to the update in question there if that is the case. It's been bugging me since I first made the update commenting feature.

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I've... reorganized the Site History page, since previously it was seriously long and went back and forth and stuff. Now it's a lot neater to read. In the process, I also went and got a few more 2003 updates to put into the Old Updates.

Otherwise, I've been doing a ton of character bios for the Quest for the Legends minipage, so it's not that I've just been lazy, really.

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It's come to the end of two thousand nine,
a year for the world to remember.
Don't know about you, but my year was just fine,
though it's felt like a hectic December.
Now it's two thousand ten with a fresh new start,
and I think this is worthy of cheer:
I hope you had fun, and with all of my heart,
I wish you a happy new year!

Yeah. Don't ask me why I decided to make a new year's poem, but apparently I did. In any case, happy new year, and I hope your 2009 was enjoyable, or at least satisfying to leave behind.

As always, my traditional New Year's Thanks!

• Dannichu! The London Expo was awesome, but finally meeting you in the flesh was awesomer. Your Christmas present will be a bit late, unfortunately, but it's coming.
• Espeon! Meeting you was wonderful, too. Thanks for the memories, and I hope to see you again at the next Expo. Both of you.
• Psychic! Oh, God, I have had so much fun talking to you this year. We still need to do it more.
• elyvorg! You are generally amazing. If you can make it to the next Expo, it will absolutely make the year 2010 for me. Also, write more LE.
• opaltiger! I may have met you already, but that didn't make meeting you again at Paddington any less lovely. And thank you for all the beta-reading and second opinions for my fanfics you've provided.
• Shadey! I love you. You are my favorite person in the world, and believe me when I say I know some pretty darn awesome people. Thanks for having been warm and cuddly and our three wonderful years. You make me happy.
• Dad! You continue to be one of the coolest people I know. I'm proud to be your daughter.
• You guys who actually did buy something through the Play-Asia links! I never really expected people to actually go and use them, but the fact it happened is pretty darn cool. Thanks for your support; it is highly appreciated, and I hope you enjoy the games you bought.
• Everybody else who continues to visit this website. Sorry about the decline in update frequency this year. I'll try to make up for it.
• Everybody who's done the crossword so far. Come on! I need more entries!
• Joss Whedon, for making awesome shows.
• Game Freak, for making HeartGold and SoulSilver unbelievably great. I don't care about the complainers; I think they're without a doubt the best Pokémon games yet.
• Quentin Tarantino, for providing a name for my awesome Dialga plushie. :P And Inglourious Basterds was great too.

See you all in the January updates once I do something of note.

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