gor[b]

or, if you prefer: gorblog, the gorbould and the beautiful, gorbould statements, gorbouldface lies, gorbould as brass, gorbould and resolute, fortune favors the gorbould, to gorbouldly go...

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Too obscure?

Y'all get the name Gor[b], right?

Last name: Gorbould. High school nickname: Gorby. Gor-b.

And of course the web forum code for bold is [b] - Gor-bold.

Too geeky? *

Maybe I should have stuck with Gorblog, or one of the other rejected monikers in the header at the top of the page.

Meh, I'm not wedded to it.

* Even geekier:
I initially tried using the HTML code, Gor<b>, but Blogger wouldn't accept it. In fact, I had to try six different tricks to display the code in this sentence. Pre, Code, XMP and Plaintext tags all get interpreted as HTML. The trick that works: use the numerical code for the angle bracket characters (even the letter codes didn't work for me.) For reference, they are #60 and #62. Even then, you have to publish from the "Edit HTML" view for it to work (don't flip back to Compose, or you'll lose it again - and it'll screw up if you edit the post later.) There's a list of the numerical codes for characters here, but even better is the cool pop-up blogger keyboard.


1 Comments:

At 8/02/2006 05:00:26 PM, Joe Clark said...

Ampersand lt semicolon and ampersand gt semicolon are marginally more reliable. (Check what actually displayed in your posting.)

Blogger sucks for HTML; why aren’t you using WordPress?

 

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