Don't forget the link. Here's how to post one, Part Next

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my first attempt at a link ever…please don’t laugh if it doesnt work

To learn more about my hospital, look here.

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Ok here is my test http://www.straightdope.com

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another test my favorite site

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trying again [url"http//:www.straightdope.com"]my favorite site

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argh! here I go again hoping this works

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crossed fingers

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Yay!!!

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Don’t cheer yet, lunasea… Did you try the link? it points to http://boards.straightdope.com/www.straightdope.com . I think that this is due to forgetting the http:// in front of the address.

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Let’s try this…

http://www.latrinalia.com

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Here’s your answer CnoteChris, plus a few other neat formatting tricks.

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Hey everybody, don’t mind me…

My test

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http://www.mustardweb.com/indes.html

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http://www.mustardweb.com/

http://www.mustardmuseum.com/

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Clever isn’t a good enough word. I love the problem analysis that went into this. I sure hope you have a good hi-tech job Chronos, as you certainly have the talent for one.

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Thanks btw.

I’ve just realised I never acknowledged what a help this thread was.

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Theoretical physicist… I imagine that that counts as “hi-tech”, but I’ll let you decide if it’s good.
I actually got the idea for this from an old IRC trick, btw. In most IRC programs, if you have a / at the beginning of a line, it’s interpreted as a command: /join #straightdope , for example, would open up the straightdope room. The problem comes when you’re trying to show a newbie what to type, and one solution (thought up by someone else) was to put in a color code for black on white background at the beginning (the default, anyway), so the / wasn’t at the beginning of the line anymore. This is just a variant on that idea.

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practicing url
http://www.mustardweb.com/indes.html

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practicing url
http://www.mustardweb.com/indes.html

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