Octopodial ChromeBob Uhl's thoughts on life.No Dashes or Spaces- May 14, 2008 <p> We’ve all seen those credit-card-entry (and other) forms which ask us to leave out dashes, spaces and other punctuations when entering our numbers. Never mind that credit card numbers are naturally written with spaces, that Social Security numbers use dashes and that phone numbers have a number of different representations involving dashes, parentheses, spaces, periods and plus signs. The really ridiculous thing is that removing extraneous punctuation is dead-simple for...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/tech/dashes-spaces-shame.html Stephen's Back!- May 7, 2008 <p> One week ago early this morning (<em>very<em> early this morning…) my youngest brother returned from his first deployment to Iraq. Thanks be to God, he is healthy and unharmed. It was good to hang out with him, Mom, Tom and Em in San Diego for a few days.<p>http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/current-events/stephen-returns-2008.html Let Loose the Washboards of War- May 6, 2008 <p> It appears that <a href="http:www.nytimes.com20080505us05land.html">American soldiers overseas have rediscovered the utility of washboards<a>. America’s last surviving washboard company makes a portable kit consisting of a small washboard (originally designed for travelling salesman), a tin bucket, lye soap, clothesline, clothespins and foot powder. They’re $25 and thousands have been sent to the troops.<p> <p>I’m...http://octopodial-chrome.com/blosxom/blog/etc/washboards-of-war.html |