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Mice, troublesome in the wrong hands
Yes, that has been the bane of my life today. I've got a job to do which requires me to make a template of a web page, then duplicated it many times but insert different data therein. Not a problem, once I've done the template, but then it all went a bit pete tong.
The original template I do works just fine (once I get over the security issues with running flash on a local directory rather than a server) and so happy its all lah-de-dah I go ahead and start to duplicate the page making content changes as necessary. They'll all be fine no? All copies from an original working page... there surely can't be much that will go wrong with that...
Alas no, as it appears at some point during my editing I've hit the unicode button which has nicely screwed up all the pages, I get lots of gobbledygook rather than my slick html in the browser. Hmmm. You see the amount of time it's just taken me to write the previous sentence is just a smidgen of the time it took me to figure out wtf the problem was. I tried everything, from cutting and pasting the HTML from the original back into the copies, downloading plugins, googling, you name it, I tried it. It was only sheer luck I found out what the problem was when curiosity got the better of me and I clicked a button which looked vaguely promising.
I don't know how I'd managed to save the files as unicode, I can only assume it was a case of mistaken mouse click identity which whilst I was busy working went unnoticed.
You live and learn eh?
I also went to the gym today and stumbled upon another astounding feat of nature.. so I ask, why is it when you are doing weights in the gym which are challenging, if you let out a big grunt during the resistance bit (such as the upwards movement on a bicep curl) does it help you lift the weights. I hadn't tried it before now, but it does work... save the embarrassment of sounding like something out of a xxx movie.
Posted by Abi on the March 7, 2006 9:51 PM
Unicode is good to have though :)
Grunting doesn't help. The problem most non-grunting preople have is that they stop breathing when pushing or pulling hard. That usually only lasts seconds so it's not dangerous but it still adds to the strain. It's one of the reasons you see many people doing situps in shorts bursts, five situps, breath, five situps, breath, five ... . Just doing things wrong.
You don't have to scream or grunt but you have to keep on breathing.
That's also why some say you are doing excercises well if you can keep talking while doing them. It means you can breath relaxed.