Fast Food Nation....

[rossja]

I just finished waking up, showering, and will be heading into work soon. I thought I would do the normal check your email activities before leaving as well, when I came acoss this article that totally conincides with Fast Food Nation that I finished yesterday.  Basically people in Britain stopped buying McDee's on a regular bases because of the on going problem with obesity.  So McD is actually taking steps to regain customers by, "new choices such as fresh salads, free-range eggs, semi-skim organic milk and fruit", and "reducing its portion sizes."  Now if we could just get them to do that here or something instead of making super super super size - an entire weeks worth of calories in one sitting.

Here's the link if you're interested:   Yahoo story link

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

So while you're consulting, how do you make the lesser-than greater-than characters show up in the final product like you did above? I tried backslashing them out (UNIX geek) but that didn't work. :(

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

&lt; translates to <
&gt; translates to >
(and &amp; translates to &)

Also check w3.org for other characters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

>Wickit!< Thanks! :)

[riffalike.livejournal.com]

Yeah, semicolons are key. They delimit the end of the escape sequence.

[rossja.livejournal.com]

oh man...see you didn't put that in the instructions before, I would've messed it up again. :) It's all good though.