do you yahoo?

[arguchik]

what the hell is going on with yahoo today? i just logged in to read the morning news, check email, etc. and every single news story on my front page is a week old. my horoscope is a week old. the comics are from yesterday. lately, i have noticed that my "new mail" indicator isn't working properly, either--it never says i have new mail, but when i click on it to open my mailbox i find out that i actually do have new mail.

think they're getting hit by cyberpredators?

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[arguchik.livejournal.com]

lol--if you look at the cnn front page right now, there are two headlines juxtaposed:
? Five U.S. soldiers charged with detainee abuse
? Bush: 'We do not torture'

inherent, palpable irony, no?

(can someone please tell me how to turn those into hyperlinks? i'm still a blog newbie on that score...)

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

(http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/index.html)I looked for that on CNN to capture a picture, but by the time I looked, the prominent headlines had changed. I did find the two together at the bottom of one page.

If you search Google for something like "basic HTML guide", you'll find a lot of pages, any of which might be useful. (I suggest looking at a few to find one organized in a way that you like.) To make a hypertext link, the basic form is as follows:

<a href="target-URL-here">linked-text-here</a>

In place of linked-text-here, you can also have an image by using <img src="URL-of-image">. There are several additional parameters that you can add inside the img tag that affect characteristics like how text wraps around the image, where the image appears in the page, and the amount of space around the image. Here's the code that I used for the image and link I added at the beginning of this comment:

<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/index.html"><img
src="http://encanto.org/torture-and-abuse.jpg" align=right hspace=20 vspace=20></a>

I created the image and saved it on my server (encanto.org) so that I could reference it, but I could've uploaded it to some photo site instead.

I do about half of my markup for LiveJournal by using semagic, a client program (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=158) for creating journal entries.

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, and part of the reason to use Semagic is because it'll do much of the coding for you.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

aha, that is very helpful, thanks! i will check out semagic...