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I found the cool JavaScript/CSS hack to <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/nicetitle/" title="Nice titles">show link titles nicely</a> by Stuart Langridge at <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/" title="kryogenix.org">kryogenix.org</a>. I have modified it to work with acronyms, abbreviations, and definitions, and have modified it to work properly with inserted text.

The trees are filled with migrating birds. It sounds like some great rusted metal machine gone mad.

We have wood heat and in the eleven years I have lived in this cabin I cannot remember ever having had to start a fire so early.

In the truth in advertising category, I thought I would document where I got the HTML code for the banner at the top of the page before I forgot. I think it came from the <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/" title="A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques">Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques</a> column that <a href="http://gnuhaus.com/iblog/" title="iBlog - still putting the &quot;blah&quot; in blog...">Mark Newhouse</a> wrote for <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/" title="A List Apart, for people who make websites { tease }">A List Apart</a> as modified by <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/ala_119_opt.htm" title="bigtrouble - A List Apart #119: A Miniscule Optimization">A Miniscule Optimization</a> from <a href="http://www.bigtrouble.com/" title="bigtrouble">Bryn Dyment</a>.



Now that I look again, I see that Mark has a clever way to get rid of tables used for form formatting like I currently use for my contact page. Perhaps I will try to reformat that page using his techniques.

I had scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, and orange juice for breakfast this morning.



<ins datetime="2003-10-05T07:47:00-05:00">Lunch consisted of a hand full of peanuts and a beer. Dinner was three fajitas and two more beers.</ins>

I have discovered that there is a way to run CGI scripts from the PSU personal Web pages (like this one). Here is my <a href="http://scripts.cac.psu.edu/users/m/h/mhl100/scripts/printenv.pl" title="CGI Process Environment">CGI process environment</a>

Just cereal this morning &mdash; no fruit. I wanted to get to work early so I could get across town this evening before they close down the roads for the <a href="http://homecoming.psu.edu/" title="Penn State Homecoming 2003">homecoming</a> <a href="http://homecoming.psu.edu/events/week.html#fri" title="Penn State Homecoming 2003">parade</a>.



<ins datetime="2003-10-03T17:07:00-05:00">Lunch today consisted of stir fried Tofu with green beans and onions with chow mien noodles. I walked to and from for a total of about two miles. I had a beer after work. Tonight we are going to a friend&rsquo;s house for Lasagna and Sangria.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-04T10:19:00-05:00">Our friends also had this really good salsa/cheese dip that I ate several servings of on tortilla chips.</ins>

I got this technique for producing fancy horizontal rules (see below) from Dive Into Accessibility.

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It seems to work pretty well.

Here is the code from the style sheet:

div.hr {display: none}
/*/*/a{}
div.hr {
    display: block;
    height: 65px;
    background-image: url(images/fancyrule.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: center center;
    margin: 1em 0 1em 0;
}
hr.fancy {display:none}
/* */

Here is the code to place the rule on the page:

<div class="hr"></div><hr class="fancy" />

Breakfast this morning again consisted of a bowl of generic toasted oat cereal with half of a banana sliced on top and 2% milk. The cats again getting most of the milk.



<ins datetime="2003-10-02T11:57:00-05:00">I went for a 1 &frac12; mile walk this morning &mdash; over to Pattee Library. I grabbed a bag of chips for lunch.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-02T12:30:00-05:00">I was going to go for a walk over my lunch hour, but believe it or not it appears to be <em>snowing</em> out!</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-10-02T19:45:00-05:00">I broke down and had a pack of peanut butter crackers this afternoon. We had chili and cornbread and two beers for dinner tonight.</ins>

Breakfast this morning consisted of a bowl of generic toasted oat cereal &mdash; that is like <a href="http://www.cheerios.com/" title="Cheerios.com - The 1 and Only Cheerios">Cheerios</a> for the brand name buyers amongst you &mdash; with half of a banana sliced on top and 2% milk &mdash; a compromise with my wife since I cannot bring myself to dring the gray water they sell as 1% milk &mdash; but the cats ended up getting most of the milk. No lunch&hellip; yet. I also walked four miles over my lunch hour.



<ins datetime="2003-10-01T20:35:31-05:00">Tonight was our wedding anniversary, so we went all out and had creamed chicken and waffles! We also had a bottle of <a href="http://www.bolla.com/view_wine.asp?nWID=6" title="Bolla Wines of Italy - Open Up">Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna</a>.</ins>