All work and no play ...

By Todd Stadler · Friday, October 5, 2007 12:02am

Okay, so maybe I spend too much of my life — both work and free time — working with Web pages, staring at HTML.

Fig. A: An ordinary exit sign

Because when I see exit signs like the one pictured here, I find myself thinking, "Of course! And when I go down the stairs and get to the door that leads outside, I'll see a sign labeled '</EXIT>'."

And that's all sorts of sad.

(Okay, for all you Web naïfs out there who don't get it, and yet for some reason care, the sign pictured here, with arrows indicating exits to the left and right, looks like an HTML tag, with its surrounding angle brackets, as such: <EXIT>. Specifically, an opening, or beginning, (yet completely imaginary) EXIT tag. The corresponding ending tag, as described above, would be </EXIT>. Get it? No? Still lame? Would it be even lamer if I told you I added this explanation just to balance out the white space issues presented by the exit sign image?)