test please delete

[NickFitz]

Ah! A typo in the year. It's newly released in the past couple of weeks, not 20 years old

That must be why it’s not on any streaming services yet

I did think it was odd the name didn’t ring any bells

[NickFitz]

This afternoon has been largely devoted to further investigation of the new forum software, specifically, the tool it contains for doing a data import and conversion from the current incarnation

It generally does a very good job, though there are a few bits one has to deal with manually. But one problem is thread and post IDs. When we moved to vB5, it would have wiped out all the old ones, so I put in a lot of work to understand how various aspects of the system worked (badly, was usually the answer) and devised a way of preserving them.

Naturally, the new thing’s importer has no idea about any of that. So I’ve worked out how to add a CUK-specific importer, which inherits from the existing one, so I can insert custom code into the import process at the appropriate junctures and fix things up

There’s still a lot to do in terms of understanding how it works, so I can do the needful without breaking anything else. I’ll probably have to run an import under the debugger so I can single step through it and work out exactly where I can jump in. But it’s worth the hassle to ensure that TPD will continue to be thread 4465, as it always has been

[NickFitz]

Outside, the rain seemed to ease up a little earlier, but at the same time the wind got up to an alarming degree

Now the rain’s back to being as bad as it was and the wind seems to be getting even worse

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

Accompanied by a bit of new Traffic Cops

[xoggoth]

Watch new episode of Sister Bummyface soon. Actually summit worth watching on TV!