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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