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		<title>More gremlins</title>
		<link>http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2010/02/more-gremlins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again: Similar to the last time I mentioned this issue: Or the time before that: Or, god help us, the time before that . Would we let errors like this slip into the print version?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here we go again:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/poll-gremlins2.png" alt="poll-gremlins.png" border="0" width="372" height="214" /></p>
<p>Similar to the <a href="http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2010/02/gremlins/">last time I mentioned this issue</a>:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/poll-gremlins.png" alt="poll-gremlins.png" border="0" width="381" height="98" /></p>
<p>Or <a href="http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2010/01/more-poll-issues/">the time before that</a>:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/poll.jpg" alt="poll.jpg" border="0" width="377" height="213" /></p>
<p>Or, god help us, <a href="http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/12/our-own-version-of-fail-blog/">the time before that</a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/poll-1.jpg" alt="poll 1.jpg" border="0" width="377" height="198" />.</p>
<p>Would we let errors like this slip into the print version?</p>
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		<title>Gremlins!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More encoding &#8220;gremlins&#8221; snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off &#8220;smart quotes&#8221; on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose. Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or TextWrangler (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web. This just looks bad.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More encoding &#8220;gremlins&#8221; snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off &#8220;smart quotes&#8221; on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose. </p>
<p>Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or <a href="http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/">TextWrangler</a> (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/poll-gremlins.png" alt="poll-gremlins.png" border="0" width="381" height="98" /></p>
<p>This just looks bad.</p>
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		<title>More poll issues</title>
		<link>http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2010/01/more-poll-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We really need to make sure that we&#8217;re catching this sort of thing when the polls go up live. It&#8217;s best to draft everything for the Web in a plain text editor, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit or TextWrangler on OS X. This sort of thing has happened before, as you might recall.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We really need to make sure that we&#8217;re catching this sort of thing when the polls go up live. It&#8217;s best to draft everything for the Web in a plain text editor, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit or TextWrangler on OS X. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.hypercrit.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/poll.jpg" alt="poll.jpg" border="0" width="377" height="213" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/12/our-own-version-of-fail-blog/">This sort of thing has happened before</a>, as you might recall.</p>
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		<title>Our own version of FAIL blog</title>
		<link>http://www.notes.hypercrit.net/2009/12/our-own-version-of-fail-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Becker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the obvious encoding problem (which is caused by smart or curly quotes being pasted into a form in the admin area of our site) (and by the way, there shouldn&#8217;t be an apostrophe in that word anyhow), there&#8217;s a bit of a logical problem inherent in the answers here. If you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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<p>In addition to the obvious encoding problem (which is caused by smart or curly quotes being pasted into a form in the admin area of our site) (and by the way, there shouldn&#8217;t be an apostrophe in that word anyhow), there&#8217;s a bit of a logical problem inherent in the answers here.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what <a href="http://failblog.org/">FAIL blog</a> is, learn. Endless entertainment.</p>
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