Strange Problem on LearnerBlogs

December 17, 2006

I encountered a strange problem where the paragraphs in my posts would be separated by an unnecessarily wide gap.

To solve this, I had to directly edit the HTML of the post. This is done by clicking the HTML button located on the toolbar above your post when you are writing or editing it. In it, if you are encountering this spacing problem, you should find lines which are entirely composed of the following code: <p> </p> or some variation of it if you have an alignment other than the default one (like centered or justified).

To get rid of it, just simply delete the thing. Highlight it and delete it, or do it some other way. There can be empty lines, as it won’t affect your post. Just get rid of them.

I don’t know XHTML, but it’s fairly easy to figure out these things if you check your HTML and compare it to your post and what looks like on the site. As people fear, I will soon be teaching myself how to use XHTML…and I’ll share tips I find with you so all of you can take advantage of them. Stay tuned!


Satire

December 13, 2006

People need the truth, and people need entertainment. Those are two of the main reasons most people watch TV…to get facts and news, and for entertainment. So a successful combination of these two things, SATIRE, is bound to do well.

Generally, public news is very factual, but can be serious and sometunes even depressing. For instance, read this article on the “Modern Jack Ripper” and tell me it’s uplifing. However, we all must approach the truth somehow, even the biggest problems in society, and it won’t happen throught watching popular sporting events. So what can we do?

How about covering the important problems in a very sarcastic, funny way, while basically ignoring the real detailed facts which will probably cause nothing but grief and confusion. Satire is a great way to approach any issue, no matter how minor, as it is meant to be entertainment and does not necessarily have to be important, like the news must be. It’s an important tool in putting problems into words while leaving what to do about it to the common person. People do not want to learn about a serious problem without any offered solution to it…so why not just expose it in the form of entertainment and laugh it off? Then, later on, the person may reflect on that issue without somehow hating the satirical program for it.

I was about to add a short satirical clip from youtube, but the school computer won’t let me go there so I’ll just add it later. (Be warned, if any of you are pro-Bush, there is an anti-Bush message in there, so don’t watch it. And don’t whine to me about how untrue it is, because it’s completely your fault that you did not read this message or did not listen to it.)

EDIT: Here it is. Remember, it’s offensive to Bush lovers. If you start whining to me about my views on Bush, I’ll just make fun of you for not being able to follow the simplest of simple instructions.


REVIVED!!!

December 13, 2006

This blog has now been officially REVIVED!!! Sorry, for reasons I could not blog here for a while…but now, you can expect the unnecessarily detailed blogs I have written before. Let me begin with the Satire Blog I was supposed to do….

By the way, this blog has now been upgraded to Version 2.0! Whatever that means, it better be good….