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| | | From: Deranger (Original Message) | Sent: 1/2/2007 6:31 PM |
Attention folks!
The new version of my QS website is now live... at www.quantockschool.co.uk.
There are still some gaps to fill, and I will be working on these. If anyone has any comments please let me know - my idea is to present a clear, objective history of the school based on a combination of the facts as they stand and our collective memory of the place - with the exception of the sort of stuff that is sitting behind the walls here. So if you might have your very own Quantockian tale to add please let me know. I am hoping to create a memoirs section, so if anyone can top my bio feel free to get your creating writing juices flowing!
The food and colloquialisms page is also looking for new stuff, so if you can recall any terms used at QS that are not listed...
There is also a new bulletin board which is very flexible, so please feel free to join and start posting. I will be assigning admins at some point soon.
Cheers
Rick
PS - Don't make it a mission, but clicking on some of the adverts would also be nice! |
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| | | From: Bri | Sent: 1/2/2007 9:43 PM |
Rick
Effing brilliant job, mate! Very well done indeed!
That's just gone to the top of my FireFox 'Boookmarks' list..!
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Rick
Great job ... If and when I finally emerge from a pile of reading I have to do, I shall hope to add a few snippets to the site.
One day I would like to trawl the QS-MSN message boards for all those little gems that need to plucked out dusted off and put in a sensible order �?the problem is that this site has ballooned over the last 6 and a bit years and has so many messages. If there was a way to "save group" to my PC that would be great ... but I think not
I also have a history of my exploits at QS from 1st year to 5th year (link: Mike Blake (a Quantock history 1985-90) ) �?the problem being that it needs a little editing to remove some of the more 'sensational' stuff that a non-Quantockian might not fully understand if posted on non-secure website.
We also still have to sort out a meet up �?if not we can talk about stuff at the reunion.
Mike
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Rick Looking at my QS-history I can see a link to QS-food: Might be some stuff in there for you to use ... Also I think the 1965 prospectus mentions 4 sporting houses: Wright (blue), Coleridge (yellow), Flemming (green) and ... I think there was a fourth ... later prunned back to just two houses - Coleridge (blue) and Flem-up (green) 'ears m |
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Cheers for the comments chaps!
Mike - I think it would be a great idea if you trawl through these boards and pull out the best stuff - I could then set up a separate forum on my new BB where it can be placed. I'd of course set you up as an admin so that you can manage and edit it. The problem with the MSN site is that as you say it is very bloated, and the facility for culling/reshaping is pretty limited, as is the lack of facility for editing threads to correct small errors.
I am thinking of setting up a secure area where we can have unexpurgated biographies - I'll need some to kick this off though!
Cheers
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| | | From: Bri | Sent: 1/3/2007 3:20 PM |
If we can't export the message content en masse, I wonder if we can set up some sort of automated 'screen-scraper' extraction tool, just leave it running in a 'fire-and-forget' mode for a while..
Being an old and crusty mainframe sysadmin dinosaur, I don't know a lot about web-bots and the like, although I can see (potentially anyway) ways I might be able to do it in a text-only format from my mainframe. I did something similar a few years back for a credit reference agency who wanted to archive all their new-fangled electronic mail (as it were still called in them days!) from a similar sort of forum-type community thing.
I'll ponder it anyway.
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Bri WOW - that sounds like the ticket! Keep pondering away! By having the text freely available I could hound around and extract the bits of interest ... ... and as Rick hopes we could then, see then end of the MSN based group/system (  /  ), maybe have the MSN site set up as an archive for people to look through if they wanted whilst the new system supersedes it ... The MSN site can be trained to do quite a few things with a bit of imagination, but editing and moving or merging stuff is near impossible! |
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Brill Site, Pity that Booth bloke didn't croak it in 1964, suppose we must blame Richard Williams (Hope-Hawkins) Major Phartinagale Gruntfuttock (Deceased) |
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