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• sweh commented on Design changes
  Darn it; this blog doesn't like "cite" as a tag... Ugh. What I meant to write was I did manage to procure a wench on Usenet in late 1994, so its uses were not entirely lacking even that late. However I've not needed another one, so I can't say whether it is still appropriate for that purpose. I got my wench (or she got me?) in Nov 2000, from alt.sysadmin.recovery....
• Moderator Alan commented on Design changes
  Darn it; this blog doesn't like "cite" as a tag... Ugh. Indeed, it doesn't, and it's bloody annoying. Charlie? Is that a setting that can be tweaked ('allowable HTML tags' or something?)...
• Charlie Stross commented on Design changes
  Done. The <cite> tag should work now ......
• Moderator Alan commented on Design changes
  The <cite> tag should work now ... Hooray. (And I really should have mentioned this earlier. Like, when I first started commenting here.)...
• Moderator Alan commented on Design changes
  In 1973, British Rail obtained a patent on nuclear powered flying saucers. I think that's an example of the long time there may be between an initial patent and common availability of a product, being as it is a longer period ago than that between the recorded invention of the ballpoint and the primaeval avian's schooldays. However, I do note that Platignum produced a retractible ballpoint in 1950. But within many a school, even if the things existed outside, ballpoints did not exist in the sense that they were not permitted by school policy. On the other hand, Platignum produced...