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THE INTERNET TUTOR
May 25, 2006
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This week...
- Webmaster Tip: Short Quotations
- Surfin' the Web: The Death Psychic
- Software Spotlight: Sit Stay Fetch
- The Oddball Wall: The Brady Bunch
- Computer Tip: Surge Protectors & UPS Units
At my granddaughter's baptism, my 2 1/2 year old grandson
wanted to show my wife his striped socks. My wife looked at
them and said they were nice, then said, "shh...we have to
be quiet as a mouse."
"A mouse?" my grandson boomed in the middle of the ceremony.
A lot of the women thought he spotted a mouse, and you could
see they were clearly nervous as their eyes darted about
searching the floor.
Maybe you had to be there...but it was funny!
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WEBMASTER TIP - Short Quotations
Note: In code examples I add a period after each left arrow
bracket so the code can be viewed in all e-mail programs.
If you copy and paste, be sure to remove the periods or it
won't work.
Question: How can I separate a short quotation from the body
text without using blockquotes?
Simon Says: Use the <.q> tag. The "q" is short for quotation,
and is actually intended for short quotations.
The "q" tag doesn't actually do anything on it's own. Like a
division tag, it only does something different to the text
when you add some CSS to it. Here's an example:
<.q style="margin: 20px; border: solid black 1px; padding:
7px;">
This is your quotation text.
<./q>
When I wrote that this was meant for short quotation, I meant
it. It's meant to used on quotations no longer than one line.
After the first line the formatting is lost.
In the above example, if you used a longer quotation so that
the text wrapped to a second line, the border would be drawn
around each line of text separately and the margin would be
lost on the second line.
If you need to quote something that is two or more lines,
just take the style portion of the code above and add it to
a paragraph tag. If you're quoting more than one paragraph,
you'll need to use two <.br> tags to equal one paragraph
tag, because if you use another paragraph tag you'll lose
the style formatting.
Simple? Yes!
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SURFIN' THE WEB - The Death Psychic
After haggling over the price of meat, an enraged butcher
whips me to death with a large beef tongue.
Well, that's how The Death Psychic predicts I'm going to
die. Flankly, I'm udderly moo-ved to tears by the thought,
I cudn't think of a worse way to go out to pasture.
My wife is predicted to fall into an open manhole and sink
beneath the thick sewage. Okay, I guess that's worse. The
poor thing.
I'm sure glad this site is just for fun, so when you visit
The Death Psychic to see how you're going to die, remember
that - it's just for fun - it's not real! Okay? Okay!
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SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - Sit Stay Fetch
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slower to learn than previous pups we've had. While we
don't mind taking longer to teach things like "sit" and
"shake" hands, we weren't too keen on it taking longer to
housebreak and to stop chewing things up.
We needed help, and being an internet kinda guy, I went
online to find help. I tried a few ebooks and mailing lists,
but the best by far is SitStayFetch.
The newsletters are just too slow. I'd only recommend them
if you plan on getting a dog someday and can wait for months
and months while the information trickles in a little at a
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THE ODDBALL WALL - The Brady Bunch
On this day in 1977, the last "Brady Bunch Hour" episode
airs. There were only nine episodes. Confused? The Brady
Bunch Hour is not the same as The Brady Bunch sitcom series.
ABC was trying to ride the popularity of "Donny & Marie," a
hit variety show with Donnie and Marie Osmond, but the Brady
Bunch Hour didn't catch on.
It's a good excuse to have a little trivia about the Brady
Bunch.
1) Everyone knows there were six Brady children. Two of the
girls were named Marcia and Jan. What was the character name
of the third girl?
a. Amy b. Nancy c. Cindy
2) Two of the boys were named Greg and Bobby. What was the
character name of the third boy?
a. Peter b. Danny c. Rodney
3) What character did Ann B. Davis play?
a. Carol Brady b. Alice Nelson c. Carol Brady's sister
Connie
4) The Brady Bunch was created by the same person that created
Gilligan's Island. Who is that?
a. Sherman Peabody b. Sherwood Schwartz c. Carl Reiner
5) The characters Mike and Carol Brady were both previously
married before they married each other and combined their
families to create the Brady Bunch. Mike's first wife died.
What happened to Carol's first husband?
a. He died too b. They divorced c. It was never explained
6) The maid Alice had a boyfriend that appeared on the show
frequently over the 5-year run of the show. What was his name?
a. Sam b. Charlie c. Floyd
7) After The Brady Bunch ended, several TV shows and movies
were developed in an attempt to recapture the popularity of
the original show. Which title below was NOT one of the
follow up projects?
a. The Brady Brides b. Brady or Not c. The Brady Kids
8) Okay, I'm feeling doggone generous so I'll give you an
easy one. What was the name of the Brady's shaggy dog?
a. Ruff b. Shaggy c. Tiger
The generosity ends, here's a question sure make you meow-
wow-ow...
9) The Brady girls originally had a cat, but it was only
seen in the pilot episode and was gone by the second
episode. What was the name of this one-show cat?
a. Fluffy b. Dotty Dot c. Snowball
Bonus Question: The Brady kids sang the shows theme song in
all but the first year. Who sang the theme song for the
first year?
a. The Partridge Family
b. The Peppermint Trolley Company
c. The Bubblegum Machine
Answers below, here's the scoring:
9 correct: Perfection!
7-8 correct: Outstanding
5-6 correct: Very Good
2-4 correct: Fairly Fair
0-1 correct: Turn the TV off.
Answers:
1) c. Cindy
2) a. Peter
3) b. Alice Nelson
4) b. Sherwood Schwartz
5) c. It was never explained
6) a. Sam
7) b. Brady or Not
8) c. Tiger
9) a. Fluffy
Bonus Question: b. The Peppermint Trolley Company
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COMPUTER TIPS - Surge Protectors & UPS Units
Surge protectors allow you to plug in several components into
one strip of outlets. That's handy, but not the most important
function of a surge protector.
If you experience a surge in electrical power, the surge pro-
tector helps protect your sensitive computer and components.
I've used a surge protector for years, but only recently did
the value hit home for me.
We received a power surge, and my surge protector blew out,
but, the surge protector keep my computer safe. I lost a
$100.00 UPS unit, but my $2,000 computer was undamaged.
A UPS unit is short for Uninterupted Power Supply. It functions
as a surge protector, but also kicks in with battery power if
the power goes out, giving you ample time to save your work
and shut down your computer safely.
If you're not using a surge protector or UPS unit with your
computer, I strongly urge you to buy one. It saved a $2,000
computer for me just a few weeks ago. You can learn more about
surge protectors and UPS units from this excellent and
informative article:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/surge-protector.htm
Disclaimer: Advice in this column is presented as infor-
mational and is true to the best of my knowledge. Any
decisions to follow this advice is your responsibility.
Your computer, your choice.
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Until next week, ponder these words of Stephen Hawking: Why
does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Have an interesting day, Simon
Questions? Comments? Email me at: tutor@gophercentral.com
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