May. 13th, 2007

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I'm already experiencing mental dissonance from having a zip code that is one off from ZOOM's.

Things proceed apace. We have three movers coming by to give us estimates next week — sort of an academic exercise, so to speak, since BC is paying for the move, but we want to due our do diligence. (Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.) [livejournal.com profile] adfamiliares has started packing, though we don't really have boxes yet, and I've culled a garbage bag's worth of clothing to donate/discard. (Farewell to my Dr. Huxtable sweaters — but not to my Hammer pants! They'll never get my Hammer pants.) Tomorrow we will be taken out for a farewell dinner by [livejournal.com profile] adfamiliares's excellent colleagues; the day after, Chris W. will come to stay with us while he looks for an apartment, and perhaps enjoy some gaming with colleague Dan and family, if we can wangle it. Then K's sister and niece are supposed to visit on Thursday. Busy busy!

The week past has presented us with days warm enough to enjoy ice cream — a raspberry-and-white-chocolate something or other from the parlor down the street, and later a pint of Ben and Jerry's scrumptious cinnamon bun flavor — and the second season of The Office on DVD. (That show is really, really, really funny.) Friday evening, we went for an impulsive hike along the Kayaderosseras, during which we saw a leopard frog and a river deadfall that had somehow managed to engulf a picnic table.

And on Saturday, without the benefit of hints or walkthroughs, I finally finished Zelda: Twilight Princess with all twenty hearts and all 24 golden bugs — though a dozen Poes are still missing. (Darn Poes.) It was a pretty stupendous game, satisfying and balanced and elaborate and gorgeous to look at, with a storyline full of engrossing little details and a surprising number of hotties. (Hena, the fishing hole chick, is the cutest, sez me.)
jere7my: muskrat skull (Default)
Is there a manual of style for HTML? In particular, has anyone formally decided whether link tags should go outside punctuation, like American quotes, or inside?

[Edit: I personally feel that they should go inside punctuation, which seems to be the general sentiment. But I'm used to being able to go to a dusty tome like the CMoS to determine, with the appropriate annotations and hedges, the "correct" typography in almost any typesetting situation. And I can go to any number of web pages to learn the "correct" way to structure my HTML code, for maximum cross-platform compatibility and ease of reading. But there's a lacuna between them — HTML standards don't cover typography, and the CMoS doesn't cover the new typesetting situations that have arisen with the web. Should email addresses that begin sentences be capitalized, and URLs that end them punctuated? How do smileys interact with parentheses? The nit-picky and comforting accretion of centuries of rules just...ends, without even a "Here be dragons."]

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