Jan 31
I join Iyov in a pitiful showing
Iyov tagged me with this meme:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.
As far as I can tell the two nearest books were the Jerusalem Bible (which I have discounted on the grounds that it’s a library, none of whose individual books have 123 pages) and Web Design in a Nutshell. I am a pious geek 
So my 3 sentences to quote for this post are:
What makes XHTML documents different from HTML documents is that you need to be absolutely sure that your documents follow the syntax rules of XML correctly (in other words, that it is well-formed). The sections below summarize the requirements of well-formed XHTML as well as some tips for backward compatibility with older browsers.
All Lowercase Element and Attribute Names
In XML, all elements and attribute names are case-sensitive, which means that <img>, <Img>, and <IMG> are parsed as different elements.
Well, that was exciting and full of theological or spiritual depth, eh? (If you want to judge whether I’ve made any good use of it, the two sites listed below my blogroll were largely hand-coded with XHTML and CSS.)
So, I tag: Mark Goodacre, Jim West, Lingamish, James McGrath and Peter Kirk.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Doug,
At the risk of mild blasphemy, Web Design in a Nutshell is a Bible. Long live Jennifer Niederst and long live O’Reilly books!
-JAK
January 31st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
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February 1st, 2008 at 7:41 am
No, there is spiritual depth there. The meaning of your sentences is is this: Everything matters, no matter how small. There is no neutral. Either you write “i” or you write “I” you do not write both. There is no in between. You are either hot or cold. Luke warm will not be tolerated.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:42 am
Page 123 of Newman’s Birds of Southern Africa shows five varieties of plovers. Hope this helps…
February 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
If it’s any comfort at all, my contribution was merely a half-inch away from being out of PHP in a Nutshell.
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