The most useless sign

Boom! A Chicago Police Commander got killed in the Thompson Center, just a few blocks from where I work.

See news https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/person-shot-near-thompson-center.

But that place is full of this useless sign in every door:

Why do we even post such useless signs? It is not like a no-smoking sign where you can just butt our your cigarette before entering.

Now the criminal in custody is just not named. Look at this guy, in jailed for many years for various felonies... still unable to change him. Bad guy remain bad guy. Should there be capital punishment on repeated offenders?

"In Thompson Center" is as specific as you get in any media coverage. Where? In food court? Near CTA Station? A particular floor?

Prayers, mourning, what else can be done in Chicago gun violence? Nothing.

Dow drops 666

After MONTHS of rallying, the Dow has dropped 666 points today. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/582809604/dow-plummets-more-550-points.

You don't generally hear that big a drop.

Poof! a lot of that recent 401K gains are now lost.

Look at this:

The 2.6-percent drop in the Dow came as the Labor Department reported 200,000 jobs were added to the economy last month, which was stronger than expected, and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1 percent — the lowest since 2000.

But worries about inflation grew when the report showed that average hourly wages grew 2.9 percent from a year ago — the largest increase since June 2009. Yields for 10-year Treasurys hit four-year highs Friday.

Even with good news, just "worry" will cost things to drop so much? Gee I will never ever understand this volatile market.

Whoa, my gut feeling is... after dropping that much it is going to rise again! TIME TO BUY when price is low!

Well I am not going to play with money like that.

Waita minute, look at that 1 year and 5 year chart, Dow has been growing quite a bit. 666 points is actually not a whole lot.

I am not in big panic yet.

HTML alt text

Ok back in mid 1990s I read the original HTML primer, and I learned MANY tags in just one day.

Some things are changed and most are... still the same as in first html.

Quiz: how do you show a little hint text on an image?

ALT text did you say?! You are RIGHT.

My favorite site w3schools says that too: ttps://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_alt.asp. But look.. IT DOESN'T WORK in today's browser like Chrome and Firefox??

Hover on that smiley face and I did not see the alt text!

Thanks for googling I am able to find the way to do this with the "title" tag. Don't remember seeing that in 1990s in that HTML Primer I read.

<img src="smiley.gif" title="Smiley face" width="42" height="42">

By the way, perfectionists say nobody should hardcode width and height nowadays.