Code Tricks... #5 Technorati's Hex

I have been trying to get my personal blog's title Q's Wire... accepted by Technorati as a "Tag". I finally succeeded. The trick -- use the Hex character %27 for an apostrophe rather than ' or numeric entity & #039; -- [illustration required a space -- but you would not use a space if defining an apostrophe with this method. HTML Tags: <KBD></KBD> did not work in this case.]

Ex: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Q%27s+Wire" rel="tag" target="_blank">Q's Wire...</a> is how my tag is placed in a blog post.

The new Technorati Blog Finder tool accepts the numeric entity -- & #039; for an apostrophe but the older Tag program does not. Initially this threw me off and I thought Technorati was ignoring my tag.

A good conversion chart for ASCII to Hex characters can be found here --> ASCII Character Chart. The diagram above shows a section of the chart -- conversions of several non-alphanumeric characters to Decimal, Hex, Oct, or HTML [also known as the numeric entity]. The hex value for odd non-alphanumeric characters should work with Technorati Tagging...

Now I need to figure out -- how to tell Technorati Tags -- "Please erase that post from the tag list..."

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