I have incorporated an emoticon system into the blog, so now it will be possible for everyone to express themselves here symbolically as well as verbally.
The primary means of getting a smiley on this blog is to put the * symbol around the key word. A list of smilies available on the blog is provided in the first comment. Some have alternative methods not shown here, partly because the method of getting them is quite common and partly in case anyone wants to have fun exploring what the system can do.
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