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Formatting Tips

WordPress doesn’t have the easiest or most intuitive formatting capabilities. While there isn’t much we can do about that, we offer the following to help with basic formatting in your comments. Oddly, we have to post these instructions as a jpg because if we try to type the code, it will appear formatted rather than as the code you need. This is all very kludge, we know.

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For those who would like a PDF, here it is: htmlformattingwp

Since our admin functionality is a little different, please let us know if this works.

2 Comments »

Thanks, very helpful!

To type in tags, you might be able to use the &lt and &gt tags… lemme see: <i>testing</i>

Comment by gavinandresen | January 28, 2009 | Log in to Reply
For indenting quoted text, use “blockquote” and “/blockquote” in the same brackets as in the above examples.

Comment by Brett | March 13, 2009 | Log in to Reply

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Karl Mamer is host of The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast, a 12-part look at conspiracies of today and the not too distant past. Karl is also the world’s greatest living proponent of Franglais. He also likes to bait Nigerian Bank Scammers and hosted his own podcast about teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. Karl lives in Toronto, Canada and works as a senior technical writer to pay the bills.

Julio Guardado is a former tech CEO who after surviving a tech start-up during the dot com bust decided to join the dark side and become an investment banker. While wining and dining CEO’s (we call it “locking horns”) is great, he enjoys getting inside their heads and companies even more. Julio also runs RV Investor, a web site that specializes in the recreational vehicle industry. Julio lives in Silicon Valley.

Jon Blumenfeld has been on and around Wall Street since 1989, as a trader and researcher in interest rates and their associated financial products. Most recently he was an Interest Rate Strategist at Bear Stearns and Co., where he was named to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-America Fixed Income Research team for Interest Rate Derivatives in 2007. He is looking forward to starting a new career, the details of which are in the final stages of negotiation. Ahem.

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