tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post9093990113154593634..comments2023-05-21T15:20:58.352+01:00Comments on The Untrusted: 28/06/10Montana Wildhackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-57885573827197043882010-06-29T04:11:53.893+01:002010-06-29T04:11:53.893+01:00Montana: thanks for trying to explain "cyber ...Montana: thanks for trying to explain "cyber space" to me and God knows how many other people have tried but, "knowing fuck all" is a good trait and one that should be valued!chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-64392999802413345682010-06-29T04:01:27.740+01:002010-06-29T04:01:27.740+01:00@Montana
After your instructive example earlier, ...@Montana<br /><br />After your instructive example earlier, I just looked at hermionegingold's comments en masse.<br /><br />Bloody hell. I used to think it was harmless, but looked at like this it's a huge parade of nothing at all. Just... nothing of any substance on any subject, and not even slightly amusing.<br /><br />So I have changed my opinion. The blacklist just grew by one.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-7089770986334509122010-06-29T03:54:17.077+01:002010-06-29T03:54:17.077+01:00And I've just thought of a new way of explaini...And I've just thought of a new way of explaining it.<br /><br />When you want to do a link, you put an 'a' in angle brackets and a '/a' in angle brackets around the text you want to be a link, just as you put an 'i' and a '/i' in angle brackets around text you want to be in italic.<br /><br />But in this case, you need a URL for the link to go to. So you insert the URL reference in the form 'href=URL' between double quotes inside the first angle bracket pair, leaving a space after the 'a'.<br /><br />I find it easier to visualise if I think of it like that. Your experience may vary.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-73763963361281807332010-06-29T03:51:10.699+01:002010-06-29T03:51:10.699+01:00PeterJ: thanks for the link. I'll check it out...PeterJ: thanks for the link. I'll check it out tomorrow.chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-49505024836617789532010-06-29T03:51:02.379+01:002010-06-29T03:51:02.379+01:00chekhov,
This is how you do links, except everyw...chekhov, <br /><br />This is how you do links, except everywhere that I use a { you need to replace it with a < and everywhere I use a } you replace it with a ><br /><br />{a href="URL to link to goes here"} text that you want to appear as a link goes here{/a}<br /><br />So, if you wanted to add a link to "Play That Funky Music White Boy", it would look like this (again, replacing the parentheses with pointy brackets):<br /><br />{a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA"}Play That Funky Music White Boy{/a}<br /><br />and when you replace the parentheses with pointy brackets, it looks comes out:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA" rel="nofollow">Play That Funky Music White Boy</a><br /><br />Links appear as lime green when you've visited them, therefore, any link that you put in a comment is going to look lime green to you, but maroon to everyone else until they've visited the link.Montana Wildhackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11409705185204787671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-84835485908764450532010-06-29T03:48:37.711+01:002010-06-29T03:48:37.711+01:00@chekhov
The short cut in this case doesn't s...@chekhov<br /><br />The short cut in this case doesn't save much time; it's just that the order of brackets, slashes and stuff sometimes doesn't stick in the memory. One way round it is to type it once into an editor like Notepad or TextEdit that comes free with your machine, and save it somewhere. Then whenever you want, open up that file, paste the new URL between the double quotes (blanking out any old one that's there), copy the whole line, and paste it into the box here.<br /><br />That's how I do it. Though after all this fiddling, I think I will now remember the slashes and brackets well enough to cut out the middle man.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-49790459936452199802010-06-29T03:44:05.614+01:002010-06-29T03:44:05.614+01:00PeterJ : I'm just thinking off the top of my h...PeterJ : I'm just thinking off the top of my head here but, maybe, just ,maybe the "short cuts" aren't the answer. That is not to say they don't work because they do but a "short cut" is a way of avoiding a long way around a problem.<br />I will use my usual "get out clause" ..."I don't know fuck all"chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-51624640294078326992010-06-29T03:37:47.564+01:002010-06-29T03:37:47.564+01:00OK, here is a link to something that shows what yo...OK, <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/_A_HREF.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> is a link to something that shows what you type into this box when you want to do a link.<br /><br />This is frustrating; every explanation I try, bits of it get interpreted as code.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-20711315932931413552010-06-29T03:24:49.317+01:002010-06-29T03:24:49.317+01:00Sorry; don't know why that got posted twice!Sorry; don't know why that got posted twice!chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-84779087940970987572010-06-29T03:22:59.332+01:002010-06-29T03:22:59.332+01:00@chekhov
Still here - trying to work out a way of...@chekhov<br /><br />Still here - trying to work out a way of displaying symbols without them being interpreted wrongly by the editor. Hang on a minute...PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-67234783811813256002010-06-29T03:21:41.712+01:002010-06-29T03:21:41.712+01:00No one doing the "grave yard" shift toni...No one doing the "grave yard" shift tonight then?chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-89137965597101351152010-06-29T03:17:01.411+01:002010-06-29T03:17:01.411+01:00No one doing the "graveyard shift" tonig...No one doing the "graveyard shift" tonight then?chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-39860907030879545362010-06-29T02:51:46.156+01:002010-06-29T02:51:46.156+01:00PeterJ:thanks for the advice but I'm a bit of ...PeterJ:thanks for the advice but I'm a bit of a computer dunce so you will have to hold my hand and lead me through the process one step at a time.<br />Sorry about that, but some of us are just a bit thick!chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-70864455138683812492010-06-29T02:45:31.921+01:002010-06-29T02:45:31.921+01:00Sorry again, the editor's cocking up everythin...Sorry again, the editor's cocking up everything I write that has symbols in it for some reason. Use the template I posted earlier, and it'll work!PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-92217610593766691972010-06-29T02:43:48.280+01:002010-06-29T02:43:48.280+01:00Sorry, something cocked up there.
What you type i...Sorry, something cocked up there.<br /><br />What you type in is:<br /><br />#a href="URL">text' instead of the two # signs, your pasted URL instead of 'URL', and the text you want to be a link instead of 'text')PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-72794697668203210022010-06-29T02:43:38.023+01:002010-06-29T02:43:38.023+01:00PeterJ: thanks, I'll have a crack at that tomo...PeterJ: thanks, I'll have a crack at that tomorrow.chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-162593407843843912010-06-29T02:39:19.183+01:002010-06-29T02:39:19.183+01:00What happened to the "newer- newest" opt...What happened to the "newer- newest" options?chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-57145323879900349912010-06-29T02:36:53.675+01:002010-06-29T02:36:53.675+01:00@chekhov
You don't have to use Cif, or anythi...@chekhov<br /><br />You don't have to use Cif, or anything else - you can type the code directly into the box here, and just past the URL when you're ready. For instance, type in:<br /><br />#a href="">text< and > in place of the two # signs), and then paste the URL you've copied in between the " and the other ". The 'text' should be whatever you want to be clicked on as a link.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-3572429524403452882010-06-29T02:09:10.112+01:002010-06-29T02:09:10.112+01:00Just testing, because I think my "steam drive...Just testing, because I think my "steam driven" kit can't cope.<br />Any reply would be welcome!chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-22207167139174347542010-06-29T02:02:31.193+01:002010-06-29T02:02:31.193+01:00Well, so much for that idea. The Cif website is pl...Well, so much for that idea. The Cif website is playing "silly buggers" but there must be alternative options for posting links on here.<br />Surely, using Cif isn't the only option, although I can understand why it might be a convenient one.chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-71729045523198032852010-06-29T01:31:11.344+01:002010-06-29T01:31:11.344+01:00Try again!
Am I getting close?Try again!<br /><br />Am I getting close?chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-9776996754188652502010-06-29T01:27:28.175+01:002010-06-29T01:27:28.175+01:00Leni
I can imagine nothing worse than being trapp...Leni<br /><br />I can imagine nothing worse than being trapped in the Vatican indefinitely. Well, I can, but it involves some quite heavy gore stuff.Spikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06758437918995364630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-36076825049032609922010-06-29T01:24:22.367+01:002010-06-29T01:24:22.367+01:00Much more concise than me, PJ. Well done that man....Much more concise than me, PJ. Well done that man. :-)Spikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06758437918995364630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-47499300007474934672010-06-29T01:23:08.167+01:002010-06-29T01:23:08.167+01:00No, you put them back on! I had to remove a less-t...No, you put them back on! I had to remove a less-than sign from the beginning, just before the a href, and a more-than sign from the end, just after the /a, otherwise when I posted it, you'd only have seen the link label, for obvious reasons. So copy what I posted, paste it in a text file, add a less-than at the beginning and a more-than at the end, then save it.<br /><br />When you want to post a link, open your text file, put the address you want to link to instead of my Dawkins one, and put the words you want to label the link with in place of my "here". Copy the lot, paste it in the comment box and post.Spikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06758437918995364630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141707904735688626.post-65356394739153614282010-06-29T01:21:00.649+01:002010-06-29T01:21:00.649+01:00I'll have one more go tonight but then I'l...I'll have one more go tonight but then I'll have to crash out and if it's not successful I'll have another bash tommorrow!chekhovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579841013364541334noreply@blogger.com