Too obscure?

Y’all get the name Gor[b], right?

Last name: Gorbould. High school nickname: Gorby. Gor-b.

And of course the web forum code for bold is [b] - Gor-bold.

Too geeky? *

Maybe I should have stuck with Gorblog, or one of the other rejected monikers in the header at the top of the page.

Meh, I’m not wedded to it.

* Even geekier:
I initially tried using the HTML code, Gor < b >, but Blogger wouldn’t accept it. In fact, I had to try six different tricks to display the code in this sentence. Pre, Code, XMP and Plaintext tags all get interpreted as HTML. The trick that works: use the numerical code for the angle bracket characters (even the letter codes didn’t work for me.) For reference, they are #60 and #62. Even then, you have to publish from the “Edit HTML” view for it to work (don’t flip back to Compose, or you’ll lose it again - and it’ll screw up if you edit the post later.) There’s a list of the numerical codes for characters here, but even better is the cool pop-up blogger keyboard.

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 07-19-2006 | 04:07 PM
Posted in: Blogging