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Special Characters
I can see that Movable Type’s not brilliant at special characters without using proper HTML to describe them. Will bear that in mind. I’ve got a basic “Now Playing” section working, but I’ve kind of given up on the Amazon link, since for whatever reason, Winamp simply won’t pass more info than the song title…
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Observer Business Section
As I sat and read in the park this afternoon, listening to the cricket, I read a couple of very interesting stories in the Business section of The Observer. The first was a piece about a tiny set of islands called S�o Tom� and Princ�pe – just off the coast of West Africa. I’ve got…
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The Site Evolves
Well I now have Winamp talking to my PC courtesy of the very smart Virtual Venus website and the associated plugins and scripting languages that their system uses. I just need to take it one step further, and that’s proving to be quite difficult. Basically I want it to have those very smart pop-up boxes.
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Getting Now Playing Working
Well I got my calendar right, but now I need to get my Now Playing working properly. More complicated than the instructions suggested. I shall persevere over the weekend. It may be something to do with firewalls here, so I’ll have bash at home.
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Calendar’s Working
Excellent! The week now starts on a Monday, which anyone in the world apart from the States knows. I used a patch from a kindly soul on the Movable Type support forum.
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Entitlement Cards: The Follow Up
Well no sooner do I blog, than things happen (unless our proxy is really misbehaving). First of all, I note that on Wednesday, in response to a question from “Mr Bailey” asking a question about when the analysis of the consultation on entitlement cards will be complete, Beverley Hughes from the Home Office responded that…
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Hansard is slow…
Well so much for Hansard’s claim that they update the previous day’s contents at 8.00am the following day. It’s nearly quarter to three in the afternoon, and I still can’t see any of yesterday’s reports!
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Fixed site
Well I haven’t sorted the calander yet, but I do seem to have managed to retrieve all my missing entries. They really were missing – probably as a result of the corrupt database, but the old HTML tables still existed on my server, so I was able to reconstruct the entries and import them back…
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CSS
The best way of learning something new code-wise is to experiment, and steal other peoples code. So I’ve been busily borrowing from those fine people at Bluerobot to learn how to do three columns. There are a couple of things I’m not happy with. There are gaping holes in the top left and right hand…
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We Oppose ID Cards Afterall
The governement’s admitted that the public response to the ID card scheme was largely anti their introduction. They’ve finally decided that the 5,000 emails sent via the Stand website should be counted individually. But according to the BBC article they’re still being reluctant in saying what’s going to happen next. Watch this space.
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Berlusconi Immunity
So Berlusconi’s managed to get himself off some more alleged crimes. It’s ever so handy to be president when you don’t want to be found guilty of something. You just change the law.
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1984
It’s a long time since I read 1984. I’m fairly certain that it would have been prior to the year 1984. It’s one of those books that many of us study at school (although it being a twentieth century novel, it played no part in my ‘O’ Level). It has also just been named as…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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