Re: Sorry for simple question:

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From: Kevin Spencer (kspencer_at_takempis.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:46:10 -0400

Uncle Chutney loves your friend's proverb:

"Luck is the residue of good design."

He asked me to let you know. 

-- 
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
I get paid good money to
solve puzzles for a living
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> "clintonG" <csgallagher@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote in message
> news:Izufd.6803$Df1.2859@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> > I'd say you were a lucky freak of nature :-) as it happens to me
> > with regularity.
>
> As a good friend tells me all the time, luck is the residue of good
design.
> :-)  I have three development boxes on which I have never experienced this
> bug.  Do you have the Automatic Formatting and HTML Validation "features"
> enabled for your html editor?  I have mine turned off becuase quite
frankly
> they're stupid, and they wreck more than they fix.
>
>

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