Goofy Tip #58

[Richmond Mathewson]

Somebody told me, off-list that the 'blob' produced by
Option-8 on a Mac would show up as a Japanese Yen
sign on a machine running Windows

[this may be an abstruse joke with something to do
with Bill Gates]

So, I made a stack with a field containing the
Option-8 blob on my Mac; then 'pumped'
it across to my P4 Ubuntu and my headless P3
Windows XP and got:

1. A boring square on Ubuntu

and

2. A thick vertical line on Windows XP

so I am definitely going to stop using the 'blob'
[pity that, really, I rather like it]