HELL FREEZES OVER
Dinah learns to use HTML.
BALTIMORE(AP)--Famed Shrink Rap blogger, Dinah, announced today that she successfully formatted her Blogger post with only minor HTML experience or assistance. She described her experience at an afternoon press conference:
"It was really easy," she said. "I just clicked the...whaddya call it? The link button. I clicked the link button."
[To appreciate the context of this post, please read the end of the comments on the previous post.]
Dinah, I want you to know I prepared this post last July. I've been hanging on to it for just this moment. Congratulations!
Watch out, experts have warned that HTML formatting may be a 'gateway geekage' that soon leads to the harder stuff. Pretty soon Dinah'll be taking apart her CPU for fun, programming her own algorithms and typing her e-mails entirely in hexadecimal.
ReplyDeleteIf she can figure out how to modify my Debian initrd so I can boot from my new Linux USB hard drive, I'm all for it :)
ReplyDeleteActually I think I've figured it out but it's too late to try it. Bad things happen when you geek out in a sleep-deprived state.
Word verification: yazau (the cry of joy made by a geek when something works)
Haha I'm very proud!! LOL Now - since I started blogging, I've been using my Mac, and I have Safari. It doesn't show the link buttons or any of that. It took me a long time to figure out how to do the html stuff. I had to examine my template and then examine code on another site I go to a lot, and then....only then, did I finally figure out how to add links to my posts! And once I figured out how to add them to my posts, it was the same for the comments section.
ReplyDeleteI was so peeved the first time I tried to post to my blog from a windows comp and saw all the extra buttons for links and such that weren't showing up when I used blogger in Safari!! But, on the other hand, I learned how to do it - and that makes me feel just one step closer to being a computer geek. haha
Congrats, Dinah!!! lol
Take care,
Carrie :)
Oh hex....don't get me started....1's and 0's all over the place! I used to private message back and forth with this clusterbuddy of mine using hex...it was always fun to figure out what the messages meant. If people don't put spaces in between each code, then it is a LOT harder! But it was fun anyway! haha I love puzzles.... :)
Carrie, you say you did this AFTER you got the headaches? Cause doing that would sure give ME a headache (nothing like yours though, but the very thought, oy!!)
ReplyDeleteThree cheers for Dinah!
I've been embedding links in my posts for months. I just didn't know I could do it in the COMMENTS as well. So, I take it I can use the same html code to embed links in my E-mails?
ReplyDeleteYou all are mean.
And, Roy, listen carefully, I'll say it once: I AM NOT SPAM>!
I'm not mean, I'm the traditional rubber duckie (quack!). If I was mean, I'd be the red one w/horns . . . hee hee.
ReplyDeleteNot for email!! In most emails, if you were to type the html code, it would just send it as the html code - but likely leave the link part in the middle as clickable...oddly enough! The majority of email servers (even mine at the university) will allow you to just type the link such as http://www.whatever.com and it will automatically turn into a hyperlink that they can just click on in the email. I think the email servers do this so that people don't have to learn html since they know the majority won't want to!! ;)
ReplyDeleteWe're not mean...we just like messin with ya! ;)
Oops and I was wrong in my comment above about hexadecimal - that's not the 1's and 0's all over the place...that's binary!! So if ya can figure this little message out, I'll give you a gold star for the day - but if you can't get it, I'll give you a little helping hint later! ;)
010010000110100100100000010001000110100101101110011000010110100000100001001000000010000001001000011011110111000001100101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001100001011100100110010100100000011010000110000101110110011010010110111001100111
001000000110000100100000011001110111001001100101011000010111010000100000011101110110010101100101011010110110010101101110011001000010000100100000001000000100001101101111011011100110011101110010011000010111010001110011001000000110111101101110
001000000110011001101001011001110111010101110010011010010110111001100111001000000110111101110101011101000010000001101000011011110111011100100000011101000110111100100000011001010110110101100010011001010110010000100000011011000110100101101110
011010110111001100100000011010010110111000100000011110010110111101110101011100100010000001100011011011110110110101101101011001010110111001110100011100110010000100100000001000000101010001100001011010110110010100100000011000110110000101110010
011001010010110000100000010000110110000101110010011100100110100101100101
That actually says something!! ;) Have fun! lol
(And nobody else give hints!!)
Carrie :)
Oh darn! It ended up overlapping everywhere - let me try again:
ReplyDelete010010000110100100100000010001000110100101101110
011000010110100000100001001000000010000001001000
011011110111000001100101001000000111100101101111
011101010010000001100001011100100110010100100000
011010000110000101110110011010010110111001100111
001000000110000100100000011001110111001001100101
011000010111010000100000011101110110010101100101
011010110110010101101110011001000010000100100000
001000000100001101101111011011100110011101110010
011000010111010001110011001000000110111101101110
001000000110011001101001011001110111010101110010
011010010110111001100111001000000110111101110101
011101000010000001101000011011110111011100100000
011101000110111100100000011001010110110101100010
011001010110010000100000011011000110100101101110
011010110111001100100000011010010110111000100000
011110010110111101110101011100100010000001100011
011011110110110101101101011001010110111001110100
011100110010000100100000001000000101010001100001
011010110110010100100000011000110110000101110010
011001010010110000100000010000110110000101110010
011100100110100101100101
OK use that 2nd one - that should be all of it! At least I hope! :)
ReplyDeleteAll your base . . . . hee hee!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea, eeeeeee!