Test Drive

Test Drive

Paolo Amoroso  //  Astronomy/space outreach and education

Nov 14 / 3:25am

Embedded Flickr photo set

I embedded this Flickr photo set by pasting the set's URL below into this post's email message:

It is part of a collection of my photos of the Soyuz TM-14 spacecraft on temporary display in Milan, Italy, in November 2008.
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Sep 8 / 7:43am

Low quality cameraphone photo

2009-09-08_10

The attached photo was taken with an Android phone at low quality setting. It shows a cat I run across.

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Aug 30 / 8:18am

Attached photo from smartphone

2009-08-27_17

Photo taken with an Android phone and sent as an email attachment.

Brera botanical garden in Milan, Italy.

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Aug 30 / 5:34am

HTML mobile posting

This was posted by sending HTML email from a mobile phone. The text should appear as a single paragraph with no line breaks. I add some more text just to make the resulting paragraph longer.

Another paragraph.

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Aug 9 / 9:12am

Source code snippet

I included the URL of a source code snippet hosted on the git.github social coding site. The code is a factorial function written in the Scheme programming language:

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Aug 8 / 4:36am

Rich text post editor

I created this post with the built-in Posterous rich text post editor, not by sending an email to the posting address. There does not seem to be a way of adding tags from within the editor, no preview and no draft saving.

Basic formatting: bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, bold italic, colored.

Larger font Smaller font

Bullet list:

  • first
  • second
  • third

Numbered list:

  1. one
  2. two
  3. three

Some indented text:

this is indented

Blockquote:

This formatting is typically used for quoting some amount of text from different sources, or text that should be emphasized or stand out in some way.

Flush left

Centered

Flush right

The editor also includes commands for adding and removing links, but right now they look grayed out and unusable.

Update: the usual email subject syntax -- e.g. ((tag: mytag)) -- can be used for tagging the post

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Aug 7 / 8:39am

PDF document

Click here to download:
9907150v2.pdf (81 KB)
(download)

I attached a PDF document, the preprint of physics research paper Gravity coupling from micro-black holes by my friend Fabio Scardigli. The paper, formatted with LaTeX, includes some cool math. Pretty easy stuff, right?

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Aug 7 / 6:47am

YouTube video

Here I included the URL of a YouTube video. It is "STS-125: Dream of Mirrors", a music video on the STS-125 Space Shuttle mission, i.e. the last Hubble space telescope servicing mission, by Max Q Entertainment.

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Aug 7 / 4:17am

MP3 audio file

(download)

The attached file is an MP3 audio created with the vozMe online speech synthesis system. Posterous embeds a player for listening to the audio.

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Aug 6 / 1:41pm

Emoticons

I'm not much into emoticons, but here are a few just to see how Posterous renders them:

:-) :) :-( ;-) :-P
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