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{ 2004 02 13 }

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Well, that’s ironic. I’m all ready for some large-scale coding, I’ve got several free hours and the determination to use them properly… and the server’s down. Strictly speaking, this doesn’t make it impossible to code; it just makes debugging a huge and ornery task for the future that would probably take about as long as writing the code from scratch when the server’s back up.

Yay, webscripting.

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