From: Bdale Garbee Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:11:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: more tweaks to avoid markdown breaking lines when sentences in a X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0be5dd2286ce5662be9e2c9485547a4742ac45a7;ds=sidebyside more tweaks to avoid markdown breaking lines when sentences in a paragraph start on new lines ... easy to avoid, but not entirely obviously the behavior I want by default... must ponder more! --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Conservation_Its_in_the_Bag.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Conservation_Its_in_the_Bag.mdwn index f9794f2..2e29d39 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/Conservation_Its_in_the_Bag.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Conservation_Its_in_the_Bag.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ I was just reading the latest issue of Home Power -magazine, which is celebrating 20 years of publication with this issue. -One of the articles, by Kathleen Jarschke-Schultze, talks about the value of +magazine, which is celebrating 20 years of publication with this issue. One +of the articles, by Kathleen Jarschke-Schultze, talks about the value of reusable cotton bags for shopping instead of accepting the usual "paper or -plastic". It caught my eye because my wife Karen is an avid cotton-bag user. -Kathleen ends the article with an idea that I think is worth repeating: +plastic". It caught my eye because my wife Karen is an avid cotton-bag +user. Kathleen ends the article with an idea that I think is worth repeating:

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ global resources. Even if it is slow or small, take that first step.

-I like that. Conservation, courtesy, and generosity should never go out of style... +I like that. Conservation, courtesy, and generosity should never +go out of style... [[!tag tags/misc]] diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn index 4cc0e79..915b74a 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Helping_with_Debian_Installer.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ In between keeping things going at work and hanging out more than usual with -my kids (who are off from school on spring break this week), I've been trying +my kids (who are off from school on spring break), I've been trying to help out around the edges with Debian Installer -this week. -Probably the most significant thing I've done is to provide access to one of +this week. Probably the most significant thing I've done is to provide +access to one of my hppa systems so that nightly builds of d-i for hppa can happen. However, trying to help out has finally gotten me to organize "my other rack" in a way that testing stuff like this will be easier in the future. diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/New_Receiver_Ordered.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/New_Receiver_Ordered.mdwn index 9f2f215..bc2c7f9 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/New_Receiver_Ordered.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/New_Receiver_Ordered.mdwn @@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ without unhooking something else the family cares about), plus the power switch got damaged a while back. So, I've been thinking about replacing it, and today I finally ordered a new Sony STR-DE895 -from J&R. -Should be here next week. +from J&R. Should be here next week. I'll move the current receiver to the basement so that I have something to test 5.1 audio with. Taking it out of routine use also means I can take it diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Now_Thats_a_New_One.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Now_Thats_a_New_One.mdwn index 98841ab..b9efa13 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/Now_Thats_a_New_One.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Now_Thats_a_New_One.mdwn @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ While I've smiled for a lot of photographs at speaking engagements around the world in the last year or three, to the best of my knowledge Elizabeth Gordon-Werner is -the first person who ever painted me during one of my talks. Pretty cool. -She has the +the first person who ever painted me during one of my +talks. Pretty cool. She has the painting of me online, along with lots of others from this and other events at her Art Smitten site. diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn index 949bc11..25dcd88 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Wow.mdwn @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ folks in Extremadura include Squeak in the systems they deploy in schools, and I even came home from Malaga with a CD containing their packages! But I just hadn't ever gotten around to actually doing anything with Squeak. -Now I have... and even better, so have my kids. ;-) -In fact, while I think I understand -what's actually going on better, my daughter now has spent much more time +Now I have... and even better, so have my kids. ;-) In fact, while I +think I understand what's actually going on better, my daughter now +has spent much more time playing with eToys than I have. I'm really curious to see how far she goes with this... diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/YikStik.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/YikStik.mdwn index 1d4cffe..f24a4ee 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/YikStik.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/YikStik.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ [[!tag tags/rockets]] As some of you know, the first weekend in October was a big deal for me, -because it was [NCR's](http://ncrocketry.org) Oktoberfest launch event. -My son and I spent the weekend camped out on the prairie +because it was [NCR's](http://ncrocketry.org) Oktoberfest launch event. My +son and I spent the weekend camped out on the prairie with Keith Packard and many of our other friends. Keith successfully went -from nothing to a "level 2" high power certification, which was pretty cool. -I wasn't quite so lucky. +from nothing to a "level 2" high power certification, which was pretty +cool. I wasn't quite so lucky. On Saturday morning, I flew my custom-designed rocket YikStik for a "level 3" certification attempt. The name comes from the word my wife uses to describe @@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ The motor selected was an [Aerotech](http://www.aerotech-rocketry.com) M1297W reload. This is a 75mm diameter motor 66.5cm in length with 2722 grams of propellant yielding 5417 Newton-seconds of total impulse. It was also on -sale earlier this year for cert attempts. -My simulations +sale earlier this year for cert attempts. My simulations said YikStik should have flown to about 14,800 feet above ground level at the NCR north site on this motor. -The launch went perfectly, and the rocket was stunningly beautiful under boost. -It disappeared into some high clouds, but we continued to have strong signals +The launch went perfectly, and the rocket was stunningly beautiful under +boost. It disappeared into some high clouds, +but we continued to have strong signals from the two tracking transmitters installed in the payload bay behind the nose cone. About the anticipated time after launch, we saw a rocket descending under chute in the distance, and headed in that direction. A few minutes @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ that they didn't immediately see the rest. Since the bulk of the rocket under the main should have had a slightly higher descent rate than the nose cone, I expected to find the rest of the rocket somewhere near a line between the launch rail and where the nose cone was discovered. So last Wednesday I -spent about 5.5 hours walking around the area searching... but no luck. -Since then, several other people have been out looking for my rocket, +spent about 5.5 hours walking around the area searching... but no luck. Since +then, several other people have been out looking for my rocket, including two friends who flew over the area today in a light plane looking down into all the washes. Still nothing.