A few days or weeks or hours after restructuring the main page for this blog, I noticed that the layout for blog entries that chronologically come between bits posts were not closing. The result was that blog entries that did not start a day’s posts would be contained in the same container as bits posts written later that day. The visual representation of date relationships was broken, though the information was there for anyone to see.

I went after this bug yesterday»8 months later!« and also fixed the absence of JavaScript to bits archives. Here is the in-production MultiBlog stanza for this page.

The textarea above is 50 lines tall, so the last five lines (45-49»because line 41 wraps«) are what’s new.

There’s something that needs to be said for bugs and bug fixes. While perhaps not as consequential as, say, footnotes are to the textual unconscious»MaryAnn N., a friend of mine in the French department circa 1996, intepreted notes, errata, and other editorializations of a text as a the unconscious of a text. In some ways, bugs as a form of textual unconscious may have more in common with the Freudian unconscious proper because bugs obscure a portion of a text’s intent, deforming it to produce an error. Additionally, bugs work best when they’re replaced/eliminated/suppressed. «, bugs do significantly alter authorial intent in a way that can be compared to the way unconscious impulses deform expression in parapraxes»Freudian slips«.

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