There was a party at a neighbor's and they had a most annoying guest whose laughter was much louder than the rest. They must have been watching a comedy DVD or something for all of them were laughing alot. This guy was really annoying me for it was a warm night and I could even hear the guy through the closed window. I thought to myself "This idiot needs laugh lessons." which would probably mean therapy about his nerviousness and why he needs to be loud.
Just this morning was another example of bad speaking habits somewhat like the idiot laughter of which the perp is almost totally unaware. I wonder if this is the reason Public Speaking was a mainstay of the English Prep School, that people had to learn what the shortcomings of the way they learned to speak at home and learn to speak for a wider audience and gain confidence to speak to people who come from regions other than their own place of origin,
Evidently the young woman in question, a Stanford student who was from Southern California, hasn't learned much about speaking as she had this unfortunate nasal voice and too rapid speech that would have been annoying to have to listen to in a captive situation.
On the NetTuts+ site a contributer set the goal of trying to produce a vertically aligned heading like a neon sign on the side of a tall building with the letters running vertially but not rotated using only CSS and avoiding Javascript. In short order several alternatives were developed.
In Google Chrome a simple style for <header> which forces the width to 1em causes the text to be displayed vertically down the side of the page, like a street sign. This does not work in Mozilla Seamonkey which is the open source browser linked to emacs's menu when the minor mode is HTML. Its font may also be different from this as I specified "New-Times-Roman" in its style.
At first I couldn't get other elements in the page, like articles to flow to the right of the sign. Then I tried to force the absolute position of each article, this worked, but it is costly of effort.The container gets the absolute position and the rest of the articles flow as desired. There is no need to absolutely position the individual articles. That is what div is for. The advice for HTML5 is to use div instead of container if there is no content to mark a semantic change. This is important with screenreaders that need semantic boundaries and do not care about style divisions, in fact they generally ignore divs.
