CREATE INDEX ix_comment_dt ON wp_comments(comment_post_ID, post_title,comment_approved,comment_date DESC);

Check the explain plan, if the temp table and file sort is not removed due to sorting by MAX(comment_date) not just comment_date. You may have to revert to comment_date and wrap the whole thing as a derived table.
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select a.* from (select comment… comments join posts … order by comment_date DESC) order by max(comment_date)

The hard yards in reducing the dataset are done within the derived table, the sorting on column which can’t be determined until runtime is delayed until the rowset is small enough not to be a performance problem.

(B)
* GoogleApp that does something similar, but
** Search/retrieves manually invoked
** Successful retrieval emails as attachment to you

(A) and (B) could be combined/co-operate

You should be able to do doc format munges to get a doc into preferred reading formats, whether eText or for hard copy (even on 2 or 4 up double sided).

They’re utterly functional buildings. My Dad and I looked inside and he pointed out that all three are massively over-engineered so that they can bear the load of entire rail cars and engines being lifted and moved by cranes.

Yet they are quite beautiful buildings. Simple flourishes make them really very attractive.

My profession is very young, and already we have a rolling institutional amnesia that prevents us from remembering anything that happened more than 5 years ago. So when we forget the lessons of the 90s, 80s, 70s,60s and 50s — well, only a few greybeards really grizzle about it.

But architecture is a field with a 10,000 year pedigree, yet modern architects seem utterly determined to reject all the virtues and rediscover all the follies ab initio. It’s thoroughly depressing for such an august and noble profession.

But this idea of working within and perhaps extending a style gave way to iconoclasm in the twentieth century. The artist broke the mould – to invoke one cliche. And so we got an art and architecture of heroism. How heroic could one artist be? How many styles could they trash, transcend and so on.

The greatest disaster was in architecture for some reason I’m not sure of, but the hit rate of substantial buildings or even houses that look really nice went from around 80% to about 1%. A very sad state of affairs. I can think of only one building built since the 60s in a modernist style that I think of as a complete raging success – and that’s the Sydney Opera House (and then only the outside bit that Utzon completed). There are of course others that could be pointed out to me I’m sure, but I can’t think of them right now.

On the other hand it’s hard to think of a public building built before around 1940 that isn’t somewhere between lovely and ravishingly beautiful – from pretty much any old railway station or post office and any number of terrace houses – Queanbeyan and Albury Railway Stations are faves – to the Legislative Council in Melbourne – or Burley Griffin’s Dining Hall at Newman College in Melbourne.