Punctuation poetry

I read this, probably on Edupage, years ago and phrases from it float through my head from time to time.

<>!*''#
^"'$$-
&[]../
@=<>,,SYSTEM HALTED


Or, in translation:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary
of Grand Rapids, MI

Mapping our travels

After the friends map, the places map ;-)

Mary & Simon's travels is a first pass at mapping where Simon and I have been on our travels. It's a free Web site but much more primitive than I want: you can only add five places at a time, you have to know Zip codes fro the US and the list of countries is limited - although kudos to Zee for adding France and New Zealand within five minutes of me mailing to ask about them.

I have a list of other tools to check out for ways to build Google maps without writing code, or often needing a Google Maps API key. Some look too specialised, the most interesting is a Windows program in Japanese only (I don't know any Japanese or I'd offer to translate the menus). But I'm narrowing down what I want. A way to enter several data sets and turn them on and off from a legend by the map (Mary & Simon together, either Mary or Simon, just Mary, just Simon, visited in a particular year). Adding number of visits would be the next thing, to change the intensity of the colour from pale (1 visit) to solid (practically live there).

It says I can quote it

I like it so much I'm tempted to steal it

COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
It's mine, I tell you, mine! All mine! You can't have it
because it's mine! You can read it (please); you can quote it (thanks); but I
still own it because it's mine! I own it and you don't. Nya-nya-nya. So there.

COPYRIGHT 2001-2003-20?? by Jeff Jarvis