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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

lorem ipsim

Lorem ipsum vim ut utroque mandamus intellegebat, ut eam omittam ancillae sadipscing, per et eius soluta veritus.

this is a quote that is used as an example of a blog text when you go behind the scenes at your blogger account, fiddling with the settings.
a quick google search shows people are wondering what this means

its dummy text used in publishing.

here are some websites explaining this publishing oddity. see:
http://www.lipsum.com/ and http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
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there are lorem-ipsum text generators on the web. http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3

The text is derived from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils) Translated it says ,"Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
lorem ipsum is random words or bits of words taken from the original latin of this passage (thank you wikipedia, link for this wiki is above)

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