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1. Skinny 1

   6 March 2014 at 5:36 pm

   Congrats Team well done! It is the best Left political blog going and long may it continue to evolve!
2. tinfoilhat 2

   6 March 2014 at 5:38 pm

   “The main one of interest to me is that the trend for the density of comments is continuing to rise.”

   Nice double entendre !
   • lprent 2.1

     6 March 2014 at 7:28 pm

     Nice double entendre !

     More like poor editing. I wrote most of the post at about 0300.
3. Clemgeopin 3

   6 March 2014 at 5:48 pm

   Nice to know. Congrats. Of those 700,000 I think at least 50 or so are mine!
   • lprent 3.1

     6 March 2014 at 7:31 pm

     That is easy enough to check. Click your name in the Comments tab on the right and it will give you a listing of every comments and/or post under that name.

     Umm got to implement the “walk the pages” on those search “posts”
     • Lanthanide 3.1.1

       6 March 2014 at 10:14 pm

       Commenting so I show up on the right…

       Right, that doesn’t actually tell me how many comments I’ve made in total. Only goes back 33 pages of history, too.
       • lprent 3.1.1.1

         6 March 2014 at 11:03 pm

         Ok. A final task for tonight (I hope).
       • lprent 3.1.1.2

         6 March 2014 at 11:25 pm

         Ok, I remember that there were several problems with this – that is why the code was turned off..

         The first of which was that it simply didn’t like comments. It was built based on posts or comments, but not the mixture that I’d used for the search..

         The second was that it wasn’t too good on the search criteria and I needed to nick some code off another package.

         The third was that it didn’t say how comments/posts that there were.

         And finally I needed to resize the comments so that they were closer to the size of the posts that the search page was based on OR reduce the post snippets because otherwise the page finished far too early (or too late)

         I’ll leave it there for the moment whilst I have a read of the code. But I suspect that it is a weekend job
4. bad12 4

   6 March 2014 at 6:39 pm

   Kia ora Lprent for keeping the truck rolling, hows the financial situation while we are talking about keeping things rolling along…
   • lprent 4.1

     6 March 2014 at 7:40 pm

     Mildly bad at present because scoop (who do our advertising) are still sorting themselves out and the tech work on servers has been more draining than I’d like over the last 6 months. In theory those changes and the work should start paying for themselves now.

     On the other hand I’ve pretty well cleared the financial residue of the leaky building fix, so I’m better able to cover it while they sort themselves out (or we shift to different model).
     • bad12 4.1.1

       6 March 2014 at 8:04 pm

       A Bank and account number might help that situation by a couple of hundred Lprent, the financials here are in pretty good shape thanks to a couple of good years of addiction management, aka the garden…
       • lprent 4.1.1.1

         6 March 2014 at 9:24 pm

         I never ever turn down donations even if we don’t use them for server costs. We now have a new name for them – The Crazy Colin fund.

         http://thestandard.org.nz/contact-us/donate/
         • bad12 4.1.1.1.1

           7 March 2014 at 10:59 am

           Done…
     • mickysavage 4.1.2

       6 March 2014 at 9:19 pm

       Yep …
5. karol 5

   6 March 2014 at 7:07 pm

   Thanks for all your work, Lynn, and for keeping an eye on the stats. Sorry you had the flu.
   • lprent 5.1

     6 March 2014 at 7:35 pm

     I keep an eye on the stats because it is a good early warning indicator of approaching capacity issues.

     I did leave it rather hanging over the weekend with the flu. I have two posts that I started to write before dropping back into a stricken stupor. My advice. If you see anyone with the flu this year, then avoidance is good policy.
     • karol 5.1.1

       6 March 2014 at 7:51 pm

       I did wonder if you were ill when I thread I sent to moderation stayed there for a couple of days – which maybe was a good thing for that thread/commenter.

       As I get older I wonder if I should take a flu jab – but usually I get a fairly mild dose f the current flu/cold, if that.
       • lprent 5.1.1.1

         6 March 2014 at 9:25 pm

         I think that I’m going to have to start getting them. The couple of ones have been nasty.
         • Flip 5.1.1.1.1

           8 March 2014 at 6:17 am

           I’d recommend flu jabs. They leave you feeling a bit unwell for a couple of days but to avoid the flu I’ve found it is worth it.
           • lprent 5.1.1.1.1.1

             8 March 2014 at 1:25 pm

             The unwell part was always a problem for me. But I gather that they’re less violent now than they were back in the 90s when I tried them last.
             • Rogue Trooper …

               8 March 2014 at 5:22 pm

               very easy and painless, this year in particular; had one on Thursday.
6. phil 6

   6 March 2014 at 9:06 pm

   Well done. Pity about those able to collate and spy on us all;-)
   • lprent 6.1

     6 March 2014 at 10:55 pm

     Reminds me now that the servers are performing correctly for TS. Time to reinstitute SSL on the site.

     It does feel rather like wearing an edible condom and expecting it to be useful in pregnancy protection. But hopefully it will be better than nothing.

     Also time to check the IPv6 to help out with rerouting
7. swordfish 7

   7 March 2014 at 3:05 am

   By my reckoning, trythisone’s comment of 17 August 2007 (12:32 pm to be exact) was the first ever comment here. http://thestandard.org.nz/key-plays-a-big-bertha-off-a-par-3/#comments

   And the historic comment, itself ?……”Where will it lead? 😉 ” in response to a post by Z K MUGGLETONSPOFIN on Key’s golf exploits.

   I wonder where trythisone is today ? Current commenter with different pseudonym ? By comparison, I’m fresh off the boat – October 2010, if I remember rightly. (or, indeed, leftly)
8. The Real Matthew 8

   7 March 2014 at 9:42 am

   Glad to be a part of it
9. greywarbler 9

   7 March 2014 at 11:30 am

   Do whaleoil and kiwiblog have the same issues I wonder? Do bigboy and Father have to worry about money? I bet they don’t, they have advertising don’t they, and integrate their blogs into other ‘business’ interests. I bet they don’t follow in Rutherford’s footsteps with his pragmatic thinking as in, “We didn’t have the money, so we had to think”?

   I feel it’s just The Standard team and Lynn Prentice’ engineering of pumps and levers that are the example of doing a lot with little in the time-honoured NZ innovative way? Congrats with making it work so well, and go so high. And presently, needing another injection of the good oil to prevent any squeaks and groans?

   Incidentally also from Wikiquotes:
   Scientists [Blogs] are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem, and each doing his little bit to add to the great structure of knowledge which is gradually being erected.
   Footnote – He embraces she!
   • Murray Olsen 9.1

     7 March 2014 at 10:51 pm

     We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and some of us stand on their toes.

     It’s actually sad for me to look back and see what pioneers like Rutherford said about science. Very few of the revolutionary physicists of the early 20th century tried to take sole credit for their work. These days, with the role of the funding agencies, it is rare to acknowledge anyone else’s contribution. I suspect it was different before Rogernomics, but I only started university in 1988, so I have nothing to guide me here except my prejudices.

     On the comments – happy to have the opportunity to contribute. I hope I manage to say something sensible now and then. Looking at the graph, they seem to be growing exponentially. This brings to mind a physicist joke about the ever increasing number of articles published, and how if they were stacked on top of each other, the pile would grow faster than the speed of light. This would not be in violation of special relativity because there would be no transfer of information. (We do not get paid for our comedic talents, thank god.)
     • lprent 9.1.1

       8 March 2014 at 2:44 am

       Looking at the graph, they seem to be growing exponentially.

       That was what Eddie observed and based his prediction on. Presumably there is a plateau point somewhere.
     • greywarbler 9.1.2

       8 March 2014 at 2:17 pm

       Murray O
       This:

       We stand on the shoulders of giants, but some of us stand on their toes.

       FIFY. Is that you,r line, original? It’s a good one.
       I think you add good stuff to the blog. Those trying, toes or shoulders, we all do our bit as we can.
       • Murray Olsen 9.1.2.1

         9 March 2014 at 12:57 am

         As far as I know it’s original. It comes from an interaction with a PhD student I was supervising. She had discovered that someone famous was not without their flaws and was a bit reluctant to report her result. I said that sometimes it can be just as important to stand on the toes of giants as on their shoulders.
10. fambo 10

    7 March 2014 at 4:58 pm

    Congrats to The Standard, my favourite blog site with The Daily Blog, and No Right Turn

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