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Monday, January 15, 2007

BLINK

I was just chatting with someone regarding html and the subject touched on the most obnoxious html tag known to man: the blink tag. I've not seen it in so long and it is not likely that I will EVER use it in any of my web-based creations. So here is a memorial to the seizure-inducing blink tag:

*a moment of austere silence if you please*

BLINK BLINK BLINK BLINK BLINK BLINK BLINK BLINK!

...and now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

By the way, I just noticed that five posts back was my 100th blog post. YIPPEEE!

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
-Plutarch

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must set sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -but set sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based on either doing or being."
-William James

“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816

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-Walt Whitman