jane_poses_a_question jane how long does it take for a word to become a link? because obviously back in the day most words hadn't been blathed yet. so...how long was it before they turned to a link 030328 ... just guessing as soon as another blathe includes it and that blathe is followed...i think 030328 ... DannyH When I was writing the blathermaze I had to put a blathe after the one with the link in to make it underline it. I assume it would have made the connections eventually on its own but its definitely not instantaneous. 030329 ... minnesota_chris yes, if the word already has been blathed upon. See jane_gets_an_answer 030329 ... p2 i believe (but am too lazy to double-check) when you blather the blather engine completely re-creates the page, cross-referencing entries previously posted with words in its database, and linking on-demand those words that have their own page and saves it to a file therefore pages are only (re)created when you blather under it the file does not change and the links do not get established until this re-creation despite the existence of a word's page at any given point in time 030331 ... minnesota_chris I did test it out: I made janes_test (and wrote janes_test2), and then created janes_test2. When I created janes_test2, it was not linked from janes_test, even after reloading. Then I wrote something under janes_test, and there popped up a link for janes_test2. So, um, what he said. 030331 ... User24 I am not sure whether the script passes through and re-writes the whole page, of whether newdream.net have configured the server to pass .html through the perl interpreter, if the latter is true, the whole thing could be running from a mysql database, not just the who blathed what, where and when pages. A check of the source_code would reveal, but I don't know PERL, and am certainly not going to trawl through it. Sorry about adding absolutely no value to this blathe. 030406 ... flipchrist stop asking stupid questions or complicated ones 030407 ... User24 (stop making stupid statements?) 030407 ... p2 i believe it rewrites the html because of my own personal experiments specifically the one messing with underscores blather under _framed_in_underscores_ and under 'framed_in_underscores' and the same file will be rewritten to i.e., _framed_in_underscores_.html 030407 ... DannyH I think the etymology passes through a symbiotic ignorance filter (possibly a Tri-partite flinch magnet or sparklehorse) rendering the whole subtext unimaginable. Something like that. 030419 ... User24 ah yes, I agree. 030420 ... silentbob i think its just how slow or fast your computer is things take longer to load at home it takes forever for my blathes to even show up, but at school its instantaneous 030421 what's it to you? who go blather from