Happy 24th Birthday (from the blog)

[hilary]

Happy 24th Birthday

…to Clarity, that is, and all its members. I registered the domain name ‘onlineClarity.co.uk’ on 26th April 2000, so I reckon this is our birthday.

So for our 24th, I commissioned an upgrade to the Hexagram Search feature of the I Ching Community, and that’s just gone live today. As you will see (provided you’re logged in – you need to be a member to access this), the results now display threads with the exact reading you searched for first: for instance, if you search for 30.2.5 to 1 you’ll see readings with only lines 2 and 5 changing at the top of the page. Then if you keep scrolling down, you’ll find the broader sweep of answers, with lines 2 or 5 included among others.

Also, details about the thread have been added to the results, so you can see before you click through how many replies there are and who posted.

Enjoy, and many happy returns!

By the way, did you see the video I made a few years ago for our 21st? A cinematic masterpiece, I maintain…

 

[Liselle]

A cinematic masterpiece

Absolutely right. (and also because, unsurprisingly, it's heartwarming and chortle-worthy).

Happy Birthday to your amazing creation, Hilary. Thank you ever so much for everything.

 

[Trojina]

Happy Birthday Clarity

...and Happy Birthday Yi. I don't know when Yi's birthday is but I thought it may get miffed if not mentioned.

 

[hilary]

Have you asked Yi what it would like for its birthday?

Coda to this one - making the image for the blog post was going to involve two steps, of course: find image with space for text, add text reading 'Happy 24th'.

But, I realised, these days you don't have to do that sort of thing any more, because of AI image generation - right? You just ask the Artificial Intelligence to create an image with balloons and cake and a sign reading 'Happy 24th Birthday!' and it will magically come up with...

...

 

[Trojina]

Silly AI. It's good to know how useless it is

 

[hilary]

Well, there are moments when it seems poised to take over the world - and then there's this. Iappth Bath, anyway.

 

[tacrab]

Happy Clarity Day! May you have many more!