Professor von Clueless in the Blunder Dome: All Clear: End of Test #1

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Hangout for experimental confirmation and demonstration of software, computing, and networking. The exercises don't always work out. The professor is a bumbler and the laboratory assistant is a skanky dufus. Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Orcmid's Lair Praxis101 Spanner Wingnut's Muddleware Lab Recent Items Why Learn Assembly Language Linking the Atom Feeds Button, Button, Where's the Update? Do We Have a Firewall or a Development Web? Attack of the Naughty Bees What Do You Do When Security Software Cocks-It-Up? All Right, Now What? Archives 2004-06-13 2004-06-20 2004-06-27 2004-08-29 2004-09-05 2004-09-12 2004-09-19 2004-10-10 2004-10-24 2004-11-07 2004-11-28 2004-12-05 2004-12-12	Tuesday, August 31, 2004 All Clear: End of Test #1 All Clear: End of Test #1 All Clear: End of Test Any entries since the last "Caution: Feed Testing" announcement were part of the test activities. Consult the Site Status page for further information. Oh my, that was painful. I now have much pent-up blogging to catch up on -- there are so many drafts here that they have scrolled off the bottom of my Blogger list. The delays were mine. I was compulsive about manually confirming rapid incident-response and lock-down processes before I would would post anything more to my blogs. I'm now satisfied that if there's another bad-upload failure, I can respond quickly. There's more to do. The critical path I followed (if you can believe that) is one that has all sites up and operating. I now need to de-stress, collect my thoughts, and update my notes, etc. And we do seem to be on the air here. Heh. updated 2004-08-31T20:55Z I don't know what is happening. I was ranting to Anderbill about how Blogger messed up my posting. When we looked at the HTML in our browsers, I saw that I must have misplaced a `<br />` element. That is what broke the element that made the nice green color and other features. I just now came back into Blogger prepared to eat humble crow [?!] and fess up. I thought that Blogger must have messed up because there were other weird things happening and I figured wrecking this page must be more of the same. That's the leap I took. And I needed to confess that I think I was the one who blew the colors in the first post. Well, it is weirder than that. When I came back in to correct the presentation of this particular note, all of the HTML was working just fine, and the preview is just great! Now I don't know what to say. I'm happy to have the blog working, and I am miffed that there are ways Blogger rewrites my carefully-tuned HTML that makes FrontPage look like an extremely well-crafted HTML editor. This is so weird. I am going to stop now, cross my fingers, and post this. I have now lost the urge to do a guest appearance on causticTech. Maybe next time. posted by orcmid at 8/31/2004 09:29:44 AM, rating data by NewsGator Online *Comments:* I do know what happened. I forget that, when I paste in HTML from another page that has line breaks in its markup, those will be turned into <br /> elements by Blogger. I asked for that problem. The problem I didn't ask for was the fact that line breaks inside of a tag (i.e., between attributes) lead to the same mindless behavior. This leads me to an interesting rant about executable specifications that will come out soon, somewhere. # posted by orcmid: 10/3/2004 09:42:45 AM Post a Comment

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