annoyingly, it *is* the blox plugin — which provides my

and

tags so that i don’t have to type them manually — which is eating the slashes out of my A tag links. maybe i’ll look at the code later and see if i can figure out how to fix it. for now, i turned on its special markup language option, which at least allows me to generate links that work, in entries such as this.

i do need to check and see if one already exists, and if not, write my own plugin for my own markup language, to shortcut commonly-linked to URIs, e.g. people whom i often credit for links of the day, etc. probably something does exist already and i just didn’t see it yet. and then i need to finish playing with the citysearch plugin, which i modified (ohhhhh so difficult; i added a variable: GASP!) to make it work with the american citysearch cites, vs. the .au site it was originally coded for (i want to make it work with both, not either, then submit my changes back to the original author, but i’ve really only done the two minutes of work to make it work with chicago.citysearch.com so far).

i might also be able to find a better/different plugin than blox to do the simple paragraph markup. i haven’t really been happy with blox, anyways. i still have to mark up single linebreaks with
, so it’s of questionable use to me.

or i could just learn to type

.