Butterflies, Spider, Beetles
For those of you using the “what’s happened since you’ve been gone” feature here, I would like to point out that it was working almost completely worthlessly. The code that made it go was all corrrect, but the conditions under which it worked were bizarre at best.
Think about it this way. Robert Frontpage had to talk to Sally Searchpage. Robert looked at you and decided if you were returning or not. If you were returning, he saved a bit of information about your last visit, and passed it over to Sally. Sally received this bit of information, and then did some quick librarian work: finding what had happened since you had last visited. Under some circumstances, instead of receiving the information from Robert, Sally was left with absolutely nothing to work with. The reasons for this are not completely clear to me. Suffice to say, Sally and Robert had some issues to work out.
I took a little time out and patched this relationship back into working order. Robert now sends Sally a cookie instead of just a bit of information, not only making Sally’s work more consistent, but her job more palatable. If the “while you’ve been gone” results you experienced while these two were having issues caused you personal anguish or confusion, please address the issue with me directly before taking out your anger on me, Sally, Robert, my kneecaps, or Tumbledry, Ltd.