#33: Thank you, Mr. Wizard.

The Question

Kammi Says:
April 6th, 2005 at 11:09 am

Dear THE UNDEFY-ABLE SHAUN MCQUAID, While I must say that I do enjoy reading all of the questions submitted by your obviously highly educated and exceptionally classy fans, I am really disappointed that all of your wonderous answers to these queries have DISAPPEARED!!!!!! What, oh what, oh Shaun-of-a million answers has happened???? You must realize that we all anxiously await the next words of wisdom recorded here, and I might say that a number of us also have gleaned some rather exceptional knowledge in the process. PLEASE, OH PLEASE Shaun, make the answers appear again!!!!! I await with bated breath! Thank You!

The Followup

Kammi Says:
April 6th, 2005 at 11:19 am

OOPS! I mean BAITED breath…………..it’s my computer……really………the keyboard is stupid or something………………..

Now we’re just getting silly

Kammi Says:
April 6th, 2005 at 11:29 am

UMMMMM…………….just ignore that last comment………….some wise guy got on my computer and wrote that……………..really……….I never bait my breath…………

The Answer

This is going to get a bit WordPress-ish. What happened was, while WordPress (the software that drives this web site) does allow a user to decide how many posts appear on the main page, and on what criteria (date, a fixed number, etc), it does NOT allow you to choose for individual categories. So, the Defy S. McQuaid section, being “just” a category, defaulted to displaying only posts that were created in the last few days. And, since I had lapsed on my Answers for a bit, they all vanished!

But, thanks to the technical wizardry of one Jon Abad, things are now set to display the last few answers, regardless of when they were posted. Woo hoo!

By the way, I suggest against Baiting your Breath. Also, try to avoid letting these Wise Guys near your computer – identity theft just isn’t pretty!

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