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A real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
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Lunes, 12 de Mayo de 2003


10:38:57 AM

It's here!

"Shaking the left hand with the write"

Salon Blogs' unofficial digest, which includes:
Rayne
Paul Hinrichs
Maxine Daley
"Dueling Cameras" with Guadalupe Ortega and Replicator
Miss Feva
The Barbaric Yawp
Molly South
David Fox
Simon Lavitagus
the Steve Raker/Mark Hoback/Jan Haugland collective
and some Mexican cooking from su seguro servidor.

Allow me to add my big fat personal "thank you" to VO editor Mark Hoback for continuing to publish my contributions (The War on the Web, Paying to Surf, Metrosexuals), specially now that I haven't been pushing them on him. Thank you!

You'll read Virtual Occoquan

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2:20:50 AM

The most recent corvid post, titled "An Environment of Operations," is a point-by-point exploration and refutation of a more simpler entry, "An Environment of Surfaces... Reflection 1.1" by Art Jacobson, where he states "You are the sort of person who did this or that, there and then, to him or her. If you were not perfectly clear about what sort of person you were, how could you deny that you're really that sort of person?" Though I appreciate the Raven's literacy and undeniable intelligence, his "Environment" essay seems to me a very academic and dry way to state that "No, you really can't judge a book by its cover." But anyway...

In the same post as his own "Environment," Mr. Jacobson adds a second entry [C'mon, people! Really! Why that habit of including multiple entries for separate ideas in the same post? I mean, are they related by anything else but the fact that you sat down to type them at the same time? - id] titled "The Blog As Cruel Task Master" detailing his personal trials with the Radio software: "I guess... all software is unfriendly to someone. In my own case I’ve been trying to figure out how to change the Radioland software so the "enter" key only dropped the cursor down one space instead of double-spacing. So far I am absolutely clueless."

Oh, really...?

Technical advice, regarding the "Enter key = double-spacing."

You can't configure that. The editor window is an (evil) Microsoft applet that works "as is." If you want to make single spacing, use a combination of "Shift + Enter" keys.

However, I suggest you use the "double-spacing" to separate different paragraphs from each other; the HTML generated in that case encloses each para. in <p>...</p> tags, which is the "correct" way to deliniate them. If you separate your paragraphs with single line breaks (rendered in HTML by a <br> tag), it will just make your text harder to read, since most Web readers (e.g., me) are used to the "correct" way previously described.

Charly Z • 5/11/03; 10:51:16 PM
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