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Seems a lot faster now. I managed to squeeze 18 meg out of a bloated 90 meg root.

I suspect that there may have been some corruption in the table containing all 55,000 messages. Thus every time it need to build a discussion page... Looking through all those tables and getting stuck on one that was corrupt...

We'll see tomorrow.

Took longer than planned four and a half hours. Got unlucky with first download, a crash here made it impossible to open, had to get another one. And as it took only 40 minutes to save as, I had a nap which added another hour and half when I could have been moving forward...

Giants forging Web services consortium - Tech News - CNET.com - Web services allow software to be made available over the Internet to run identically on multiple devices, such as PCs and cell phones.

Early Web services have allowed people to access stock quotes from cell phones, for instance. But companies envision a much grander future. For example, scheduling a plane flight could trigger a cascade of actions that would assemble different options that tie in with hotels, frequent-flyer programs and other related services.