Still struggling

Sure, I could always forget about using auto-fill-mode, and simply type-type away in one gigantic line every post, or I could stop worrying about making the whitespace in these posts look acceptable, but my entire world rests on being able to vomit out my techie/geeky thoughts without having to resort to a web browser, and still have everything look neat. Save me, Emacs-you're my only hope. Memo to self: two hyphens do not an en-dash make. I cribbed some suggestions from this site, but I doubt that this try will look any more acceptable. *sigh*