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So Halloween is reaching the homestretch week to its arrival. Less then one week and there will be tons of little kids roaming around wearing all kinds of scary and funny costumes. Now for a bout a week I have stopped shaving my face. Why you ask? Well its for my costume and I can not wait to get it over with to get this mess off my face. I will post some photos as soon as I have my whole costume on. So what is everyone else going to be dressing up for Halloween as?
Just to let everyone know, I am not related to the presidential debate popular name of William Ayers
I am always searching for those special characters that when viewed in certain browsers always show up as weird boxes and question marks. So here is a table with a bunch of them with the correct code to insert them into your pages.
| left single quote | ‘ | ‘ | |
| right single quote | ’ | ’ | |
| single low-9 quote | ‚ | ‚ | |
| left double quote | “ | “ | |
| right double quote | ” | ” | |
| double low-9 quote | „ | „ | |
| dagger | † | † | |
| double dagger | ‡ | ‡ | |
| per mill sign | ‰ | ‰ | |
| single left-pointing angle quote | ‹ | ‹ | |
| single right-pointing angle quote | › | › | |
| black spade suit | ♠ | ♠ | |
| black club suit | ♣ | ♣ | |
| black heart suit | ♥ | ♥ | |
| black diamond suit | ♦ | ♦ | |
| overline, = spacing overscore | ‾ | ‾ | |
| leftward arrow | ← | ← | |
| upward arrow | ↑ | ↑ | |
| rightward arrow | → | → | |
| downward arrow | ↓ | ↓ | |
| trademark sign | ™ | ™ | ™ |
| unused | �-  |
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| horizontal tab | 	 | ||
| line feed | | ||
| unused |  | ||
| space |   | ||
| exclamation mark | ! | ! | |
| double quotation mark | " | " | “ |
| number sign | # | # | |
| dollar sign | $ | $ | |
| percent sign | % | % | |
| ampersand | & | & | & |
| apostrophe | ' | ‘ | |
| left parenthesis | ( | ( | |
| right parenthesis | ) | ) | |
| asterisk | * | * | |
| plus sign | + | + | |
| comma | , | , | |
| hyphen | - | - | |
| period | . | . | |
| slash | / | ⁄ | / |
| digits 0-9 | 0- 9 |
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| colon | : | : | |
| semicolon | ; | ; | |
| less-than sign | < | < | < |
| equals sign | = | = | |
| greater-than sign | > | > | > |
| question mark | ? | ? | |
| at sign | @ | @ | |
| uppercase letters A-Z | A- Z |
||
| left square bracket | [ | [ | |
| backslash | \ | \ | |
| right square bracket | ] | ] | |
| caret | ^ | ^ | |
| horizontal bar (underscore) | _ | _ | |
| grave accent | ` | ` | |
| lowercase letters a-z | a- z |
||
| left curly brace | { | { | |
| vertical bar | | | | | |
| right curly brace | } | } | |
| tilde | ~ | ~ | |
| unused | - • |
||
| en dash | – | – | – |
| em dash | — | — | — |
| unused | ˜- Ÿ |
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| nonbreaking space |   | | |
| inverted exclamation | ¡ | ¡ | ¡ |
| cent sign | ¢ | ¢ | ¢ |
| pound sterling | £ | £ | £ |
| general currency sign | ¤ | ¤ | ¤ |
| yen sign | ¥ | ¥ | ¥ |
| broken vertical bar | ¦ | ¦ or &brkbar; | ¦ |
| section sign | § | § | § |
| umlaut | ¨ | ¨ or ¨ | ¨ |
| copyright | © | © | © |
| feminine ordinal | ª | ª | ª |
| left angle quote | « | « | « |
| not sign | ¬ | ¬ | ¬ |
| soft hyphen | ­ | ­ | |
| registered trademark | ® | ® | ® |
| macron accent | ¯ | ¯ or &hibar; | ¯ |
| degree sign | ° | ° | ° |
| plus or minus | ± | ± | ± |
| superscript two | ² | ² | ² |
| superscript three | ³ | ³ | ³ |
| acute accent | ´ | ´ | ´ |
| micro sign | µ | µ | µ |
| paragraph sign | ¶ | ¶ | ¶ |
| middle dot | · | · | · |
| cedilla | ¸ | ¸ | ¸ |
| superscript one | ¹ | ¹ | ¹ |
| masculine ordinal | º | º | º |
| right angle quote | » | » | » |
| one-fourth | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ |
| one-half | ½ | ½ | ½ |
| three-fourths | ¾ | ¾ | ¾ |
| inverted question mark | ¿ | ¿ | ¿ |
| uppercase A, grave accent | À | À | À |
| uppercase A, acute accent | Á | Á | Á |
| uppercase A, circumflex accent | Â | Â | Â |
| uppercase A, tilde | Ã | Ã | Ã |
| uppercase A, umlaut | Ä | Ä | Ä |
| uppercase A, ring | Å | Å | Å |
| uppercase AE | Æ | Æ | Æ |
| uppercase C, cedilla | Ç | Ç | Ç |
| uppercase E, grave accent | È | È | È |
| uppercase E, acute accent | É | É | É |
| uppercase E, circumflex accent | Ê | Ê | Ê |
| uppercase E, umlaut | Ë | Ë | Ë |
| uppercase I, grave accent | Ì | Ì | Ì |
| uppercase I, acute accent | Í | Í | Í |
| uppercase I, circumflex accent | Î | Î | Î |
| uppercase I, umlaut | Ï | Ï | Ï |
| uppercase Eth, Icelandic | Ð | Ð | Ð |
| uppercase N, tilde | Ñ | Ñ | Ñ |
| uppercase O, grave accent | Ò | Ò | Ò |
| uppercase O, acute accent | Ó | Ó | Ó |
| uppercase O, circumflex accent | Ô | Ô | Ô |
| uppercase O, tilde | Õ | Õ | Õ |
| uppercase O, umlaut | Ö | Ö | Ö |
| multiplication sign | × | × | × |
| uppercase O, slash | Ø | Ø | Ø |
| uppercase U, grave accent | Ù | Ù | Ù |
| uppercase U, acute accent | Ú | Ú | Ú |
| uppercase U, circumflex accent | Û | Û | Û |
| uppercase U, umlaut | Ü | Ü | Ü |
| uppercase Y, acute accent | Ý | Ý | Ý |
| uppercase THORN, Icelandic | Þ | Þ | Þ |
| lowercase sharps, German | ß | ß | ß |
| lowercase a, grave accent | à | à | à |
| lowercase a, acute accent | á | á | á |
| lowercase a, circumflex accent | â | â | â |
| lowercase a, tilde | ã | ã | ã |
| lowercase a, umlaut | ä | ä | ä |
| lowercase a, ring | å | å | å |
| lowercase ae | æ | æ | æ |
| lowercase c, cedilla | ç | ç | ç |
| lowercase e, grave accent | è | è | è |
| lowercase e, acute accent | é | é | é |
| lowercase e, circumflex accent | ê | ê | ê |
| lowercase e, umlaut | ë | ë | ë |
| lowercase i, grave accent | ì | ì | ì |
| lowercase i, acute accent | í | í | í |
| lowercase i, circumflex accent | î | î | î |
| lowercase i, umlaut | ï | ï | ï |
| lowercase eth, Icelandic | ð | ð | ð |
| lowercase n, tilde | ñ | ñ | ñ |
| lowercase o, grave accent | ò | ò | ò |
| lowercase o, acute accent | ó | ó | ó |
| lowercase o, circumflex accent | ô | ô | ô |
| lowercase o, tilde | õ | õ | õ |
| lowercase o, umlaut | ö | ö | ö |
| division sign | ÷ | ÷ | ÷ |
| lowercase o, slash | ø | ø | ø |
| lowercase u, grave accent | ù | ù | ù |
| lowercase u, acute accent | ú | ú | ú |
| lowercase u, circumflex accent | û | û | û |
| lowercase u, umlaut | ü | ü | ü |
| lowercase y, acute accent | ý | ý | ý |
| lowercase thorn, Icelandic | þ | þ | þ |
| lowercase y, umlaut | ÿ | ÿ | ÿ |
| Alpha | Α | Α | |
| alpha | α | α | |
| Beta | Β | Β | |
| beta | β | β | |
| Gamma | Γ | Γ | |
| gamma | γ | γ | |
| Delta | Δ | Δ | |
| delta | δ | δ | |
| Epsilon | Ε | Ε | |
| epsilon | ε | ε | |
| Zeta | Ζ | Ζ | |
| zeta | ζ | ζ | |
| Eta | Η | Η | |
| eta | η | η | |
| Theta | Θ | Θ | |
| theta | θ | θ | |
| Iota | Ι | Ι | |
| iota | ι | ι | |
| Kappa | Κ | Κ | |
| kappa | κ | κ | |
| Lambda | Λ | Λ | |
| lambda | λ | λ | |
| Mu | Μ | Μ | |
| mu | μ | μ | |
| Nu | Ν | Ν | |
| nu | ν | ν | |
| Xi | Ξ | Ξ | |
| xi | ξ | ξ | |
| Omicron | Ο | Ο | |
| omicron | ο | ο | |
| Pi | Π | Π | |
| pi | π | π | |
| Rho | Ρ | Ρ | |
| rho | ρ | ρ | |
| Sigma | Σ | Σ | |
| sigma | σ | σ | |
| Tau | Τ | Τ | |
| tau | τ | τ | |
| Upsilon | Υ | Υ | |
| upsilon | υ | υ | |
| Phi | Φ | Φ | |
| phi | φ | φ | |
| Chi | Χ | Χ | |
| chi | χ | χ | |
| Psi | Ψ | Ψ | |
| psi | ψ | ψ | |
| Omega | Ω | Ω | |
| omega | ω | ω | |
| password dot | ● | ● |
Media Temple (mt)
Oh the joys of seeing that - (mt) - you know the hosting is great when you see that. The fine folks over at Media Temple have pushed out version 7 of their site with a new facelift for their main site.
My good friend Rick Ortiz has publish his new portfolio site. Rick is an excellent video editor, sound producer and motion graphic artist. Along with his blog, his portfolio has many demo reels so you can check out his most recent work.