Dan's BILL

Tim Blair being typically Tim Blair (God love him) has spent considerable time on Expert Bill . That's Bill Glennon, typewriter repairman technology consultant, typewriter expert, Dan Rather's only witness. After Glennon's lengthy explanation on how a typewriter could produce centering exactly, Tim Blair noted Glennon's problems with html.

Glennon is involved in; he might be Mr Typewriter, but complicated modern things -- like HTML coding -- somehow elude him:

Can someone tell me how to italicize a quote from a previous post

Well, Bill, first you order the IBM model D with special bendy font keys handcrafted by blind Bavarian elves and then you put a rubber stopper in front of every third letter making sure to hold the typewriter at a precise 47º angle so as to enable engagement of the front index scale tabulator. Making a note of Chastity Bono's birth date, move the sheet of paper three inches to the right and sell your house. Put the carriage on the middle mark of the front index scale, sacrifice your first-born, and walk around your desk three times backwards. Retype the entire document in Gaelic. Wait for reporters.