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By: Why Now? » Blog Archive » Running Scared

Why Now? » Blog Archive » Running Scared — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:22:29 +0000

[…] According to Robert at Interstate 4 Jamming, recent Saddam Hussein Award winner, the disHonorable Thomas M. Reynolds (R-Cowardice Clarence), didn’t show up for a scheduled talk show appearance. He sent Howdy Doody in his place. […]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:59:21 +0000

One of the beauties of CSS is redefining how tags work, but it’s a pain if you want to mix the standard use with a custom use. On that one the design guy redefined LI, but I would want to see the code to see how he suppressed the line feed/carriage return.

The WordPress pre-sets for

and
aren’t bad for most things, but they can be really annoying if you want a specific layout. They don’t allow multiple blank lines, which is the quick and dirty way of getting the pictures and captions to display properly, so it was back to a table which has to be put in through the HTML editor.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:02:19 +0000

A lot of the stylesheet pro’s these days seem to be using UL and LI tags with hardcore styles to do the most bizarre things. The top status bar on the main page of the app I’m working on has a horizontal layout… yes, horizontal… done with UL and LI. I’ve no idea how it works; only the design guy knows. I’ve made a few minor tweaks to that stylesheet, but I’m afraid to tamper very much; I feel as if I’m tinkering with a powerful weapon whose operation I ill understand.

I found WordPress frustrating for poetry as well. They changed the rich-text editor one day while I was working on my nonpolitical poetry blog; it became such a PITA to line things up the way I wanted that I’ve scarcely been back since then. WordPress is wonderful for many things. Fixed alignments of any sort are not among those things.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:56:42 +0000

You have to use a table to get them to line up properly and WordPress fights you at every turn.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:44:22 +0000

Well-done, Bryan. If I’d done something similar, it would have been half-baked.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:59:03 +0000

That depends on who gets elected, John.

Thanks, Jim.

Denny can do that< Jack, because he knows he's too big to fit under the bus.

By: Jack K.

Jack K. — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:13:16 +0000

...we should now also include an enshrinement along with these awards. I nominate Dennis Hastert for induction into the Blame Someone Else Day Hall of Fame. On the First Friday the 13th of every year, we can prominently display his official House Speaker Photo and honor him with remembrance for his insistence to the Chicago Tribune that Democratic operatives and ABC News were the engine powering the Mark Foley scandal. That's my kind of leader...

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:21:59 +0000

Bravo! (I particularly like the distinction between 1st and 2nd class for the Vizzini Award.)

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:05:16 +0000

Clap-clap. Hope you make this a regular feature!