Back to Iraq - a blog that began as a pioneering journalistic blog with gritty on the spot coverage of the situation in Iraq. Now the author is working for Time Magazine, so the blog gets less priority.
The 2nd was a 'discovered' blog by an Iraqi living in Baghdad. IIRC (If I recall correctly) had been using the blog as a vehicle to communicate with a friend, hence the title: Where is Raed? Sadly he has stopped writing (at least in his blog) for over a year now. It was fascinating to read his blog during the onset of the occupation of Iraq, to get a perspective from within Baghdad.
While I don't expect at all to provide as scintillating a blog as the two I've mentioned, I'd at least like to try my own. Not that I expect it to be as entertaining or captivating as some that I've been following.
Some formatting experiments: Bold space Italic
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Some text. In the table experiment there is too much white space below the text, before the table. Strange. I'm noticing some quirkiness when using different browsers. Opera for example doesn't appear to support posting pictures. Will try Firefox. IE worked.
According to the Blogspot FAQ each line of code in the tables adds a <br> linefeed. So, by obfuscating the HTML into a loooooooong horizontal line the excess white space should be removed. I'll try it. I'll try two copies of the test table, leave the original intact and obfuscate the 2nd. Use view source to see the difference.
[Original:]Table experiment (barebones, 3 rows with two columns.:
| Column1 Heading | Column2 Heading |
| Row 2 Cell 1 | Row 2 Cell 2 |
| Row 3 Cell 1 | Row 3 Cell 2 |
Same Table using looong lines in the HTML source:
| Column1 Heading | Column2 Heading |
| Row 2 Cell 1 | Row 2 Cell 2 |
| Row 3 Cell 1 | Row 3 Cell 2 |
