David Guinness

Very professional review... I think I'll skip Snakes On A Plane, though... :) Though I might see Serpents On An Aircraft. :D

That's wonderful, Nate. I've tested the front page twice just now. The initial load to the domain took about 10 seconds, and the second time took 6 seconds. Both times ...

Could you just place in that spot a link to a Recent Topics page (similar to the Posts Since Last Visit thread)? Or possibly a Recent Topics popup window, like ...

That's all in the caching, Mesh. I think.

The Recent Topics column hasn't changed in at least five hours, as Snoink mentioned. (Clearing my temp files didn't help, so it's definitely server-side-cache-related.) Other than that, the caching is

This is great, Nate! I like having the old format back, and I don't mind Squills on the front page as long as you can access the Additions easily. I ...

People have been calling our local public library to see if they're going to weed out the older (as in, one year old) astronomy books. I guess we'll see... Scientists ...

That's a good point about dialects, Dan... Nate, would you prefer YWS Spanish to closer to Traditional (Spain) Spanish, or Latin American Spanish? With most of the translation, there wouldn't ...

Oh- Poor Imp's right, J. I. Rodale's The Synonym Finder is an excellent thesaurus (over one million terms!).

I'm in my third year of Spanish... I probably don't know enough to really help, but my father's a fluent bilingual I'll offer both our services... ;)

Hmm.. I agree with Nate on this; I really like the new layout: it's much more streamlined. I use for most definitions (through Google, then definition, on the top right ...

I'm certain I would choose blindness. As a musician, I must hear my well as others, I suppose. Music is my life. I cherish it above all. - Clairedon Would ...

This is seriously genius. I think it's more like genius masquerading as non-genius masquerading as genius... ':\ If you know what I mean.

I thought we had twelve planets wouldn't it be eleven?

Hi Darek, welcome to the YWS! I like your avatar. :) If you need anything, feel free to PM me as well. I look forward to reading some of your ...