diff --git a/oilarchive/controllers.py b/oilarchive/controllers.py
index da3c60b..bd61745 100644
--- a/oilarchive/controllers.py
+++ b/oilarchive/controllers.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ class Admin:
       archiveUrl = data['archiveUrl'],
       ttl = int(data['ttl']),
       )
+    new.setHashId()
     raise redirect('archives')
     
   @expose('.templates.admin_sortnames')
diff --git a/oilarchive/cronjobs.py b/oilarchive/cronjobs.py
index 402130c..3dfea62 100644
--- a/oilarchive/cronjobs.py
+++ b/oilarchive/cronjobs.py
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ def updateSortAuthorNames():
   grab new input from archives
 '''
 def spiderArchives():
-  for archive in Archives.select():
+  for archive in Archive.select(Archive.q.initialized == True):
     if archive.pubDate - datetime.now() < timedelta(minutes = archive.ttl):
+      print archive.archiveName
       archive.update()
 
 
diff --git a/oilarchive/model.py b/oilarchive/model.py
index f170db6..f9993f8 100644
--- a/oilarchive/model.py
+++ b/oilarchive/model.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class ArchiveItem(SQLObject):
   authorSort = UnicodeCol(default = '')
   description = UnicodeCol() # text(for rss)
   html = UnicodeCol() #(for page, contains javascript)
-  text = UnicodeCol() #Fulltext 
+  text = UnicodeCol(length = 2**25) #Fulltext 
   relDate = DateTimeCol() #timestamp (item released)
   pubDate = DateTimeCol() #timestamp (item published)
   modDate = DateTimeCol() #timestamp (item published)
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ class Archive(SQLObject):
   
   hashId = UnicodeCol(alternateID = True, length=128)
   
+  def setHashId(self):
+    self.hashId = md5.new("%s" % self.id).hexdigest()
+    
   def _get_pubDateTimestamp(self):
     if self.initialized:
       return int(time.mktime(self.pubDate.timetuple()))
@@ -168,19 +171,24 @@ class Archive(SQLObject):
     
   def update(self):
     result = simplejson.loads(read_url(self.files_url))
-    if result.has_key('css'):
+    if result and result.has_key('css'):
       self.css = read_url(self.full_url(result['css']))
     else:
       self.css = ''
-    if result.has_key('js'):
+    if result and result.has_key('js'):
       self.js = read_url(self.full_url(result['js']))
     else:
       self.js = ''
     result = simplejson.loads(read_url(self.update_url))
     items = result.get('items', [])
+    print len(items)
     for id in items:
-      print "updating / adding ", id
-      data = jsonLoadArchiveItem(read_url(self.data_url(id)))
+      try:
+        data = read_url(self.data_url(id))
+        data = jsonLoadArchiveItem(data)
+      except:
+        print "failed to load ", id, "from ", self.data_url(id)
+        continue
       q = ArchiveItem.select(AND(
             ArchiveItem.q.archiveItemId == id, 
             ArchiveItem.q.archiveID == self.id))
diff --git a/start-oilarchive.py b/start-oilarchive.py
index bc0c7de..c2bdae7 100755
--- a/start-oilarchive.py
+++ b/start-oilarchive.py
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 import pkg_resources
 pkg_resources.require("TurboGears")
 
-from turbogears import update_config, start_server
+from turbogears import update_config, start_server, scheduler
 import cherrypy
 cherrypy.lowercase_api = True
 from os.path import *
 import sys
 
+
 # first look on the command line for a desired config file,
 # if it's not on the command line, then
 # look for setup.py in this directory. If it's not there, this script is
@@ -21,5 +22,11 @@ else:
     update_config(configfile="prod.cfg",modulename="oilarchive.config")
 
 from oilarchive.controllers import Root
+from oilarchive import cronjobs
 
+scheduler.add_interval_task(
+  action=cronjobs.runCron, taskname='cronoil', 
+  initialdelay=10, interval=60,
+  processmethod=scheduler.method.forked)
+  
 start_server(Root())