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This article discusses a method to encode number array into printable text that is more efficient than the traditional decimal format so that it can be efficiently transferred to another application that only accepts ASCII input or be saved in a XML file for later use.

If you are a web designer, especially the one who mainly use CSS to implement your design, Firebug is definitely a must-have tool in your toolbox.

This Firefox plug-in dynamically analyses the html document, giving you the detailed hierarchy of the document Firefox is currently viewing.

Using its document tree, you can efficiently browse though the document and find the node you interested in. You can also click on the "view" tool and then click on a part of the document to select the node that occupies the selected area.

The time foramt in metaWeblog API is ISO8601, it is constructed by year, month, day, hour, minute and seconds of the time. Here's an example:

It means 5 minutes and 23 seconds pass 7, April 18th, 2007.

The problem with this format is that it doesn't provide time zone info. The API doesn't specify which is the default time zone, so different implementations could have different definition on this issue. This could result in a serious problem when an application communicates with a server using this API and tries to get an accurate time info.

"Choice.exe" is a very commonly used DOS command that provides a simple user input mechanism in order to enable bat commands to interact with user. However this command is not included in the windows system after the release of windows 2000.

So what can we do to incorporate user input in batch commands in windows 2000?