I’ve drastically updated and corrected my css stylesheet for when you print this blog using <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”styles/print.css” media=”print” />
On the main front page the adverts and navigation bar no longer appear and the text is set to wrap within 3% of the page so everything fits nicely which avoids the annoying habit that other pages have where the right hand side of the page is missing from printouts.
Im currently revamping the individual archive pages which were using a messy style sheet based on the default mt installation and not the css file that I originally thought!
I’ve not rebuilt all the old entries as this will take time to process and I don’t want to run this everytime I make a change so only new posts will get the new css settings.
Update Individual item pages now carry the same style and print cleanly….next stop are the category archive pages.
After Neil posted his adsense earnings I *really* got motivated to start displaying some ads on this page. LIke Neil I do get quite a few hits to these pages, mainly from google searches for technical answers so the way i figure it is that if I’m providing content for google then they may as well pay me for it (in some small way). We’ll see how it goes. At least if I (or you readers) don’t like it then I can take it off. As for the regular readers I doubt it will make much difference to you as you are using rss readers aren’t you?
Google got back to me this morning about the problem where I couldn’t find my gnome to say
“Thank you for providing this information. We don’t currently have a fix for this problem, but we’re working hard to improve Google Desktop Search and hope to offer one in the future. The data you’ve sent will help us do so. “
Anyone else having problems with feedster? I’ve been trying to claim my blog but as it won’t let me log in with my username and password it is a bit difficult to do. If I put in my email address (which is not my login id) then the new password gets sent and I can read it, but when I put it into the form it tells me that the username/password is incorrect. Emails to the feedback contact don’t get answered.
Then this morning I went to check and found that my feed has been deleted at the request of the user – huh????? The only thing I’ve done is changed my default feed on the web page, but the old feed still gets published and I didn’t explicitly ask for it to be deleted. grrrrr
Just heard on the news that in this budget fuel will not go up until september, stamp duty is now £120,000 – so no stamp duty if you buy my house in congleton, company car tax is static and you can bring back up to a more realistic £1000 from abroad as opposed to the miserly £145. I’m still emigrating though 🙂
After my last shopping experience with them when they couldn’t make up their mind on shipping, this time they’ve cancelled an order I placed as the seller can’t accept amazon payments. Yet the item is still on sale this morning AND they have an identical item selling for 1p if you can name the number of tracks that the item can hold. Something is not right here….
Yes I know it is a long time since I posted a theme for the pocketpc but I was debugging the output of this page and checked some of the links and the link to aximelated on pocketpcthemes no longer works as they changed servers, software and removed the capabilites to search for themes by name, user, description etc.
I knew I should have saved the themes locally. I think I do have them somewhere on one of my backups…..
In other news, hopefully all the divs and spans on this page should match up which should make debugging/designing css slightly easier for me.
Well the move is a step closer tonight due to the fact that the viewer scheduled for tonight actually showed up! The one that was meant to have come this morning had the decency to let us know that they had to postphone the meeting but the two before that just never showed up 🙁 We’re going to give the estate agent Kristen’s mobile number so they can at least ring us to say if they are going to be delayed or need to cancel.
I changed my rss feed location to Absoblogginlutely on feedburner as this should hopefully reduce the amount of traffic that I use, I only need to provide 1 feed, flickr photos can be included and I also get an easier method to track stats and clickthroughs from the feeds. You the user, should not see that much of a difference. At the moment I have not put in redirects for my current feeds, so current subscribers will use my feeds, new subscribers will get the feedburner feed.
I’ve also signed up for a gravatar with a new email address so expect to see that on your blog comments soon and I’ll soon be adding the plugin to this site for comments.
Friday I took the day off for my birthday and we met up with Tash & Dave (non-bloggers) to go to Birmingham’s BullRing shopping centre and then to Outback for tea. The bullring was an interesting shopping centre – not the usual meadowhell/trafford centre type layout of shops and the outer design is definately funky in the extreme. I was not impressed at the parking fee’s though – it is VERY expensive to park in the middle of birmingham – we paid over £5 for 3 hours parking. I managed to get one geocache done, A bit of ….. which is a bit of a cheat really as it was a virtual and needed a photo taken of a bull statue. After lunch we went to see Hitch which was very good and funny (although the funniest bits were shown in the trailers for the film. We went to an AMC cinema and that was suprisingly cheap, £3 for the matinee performance and £5 for shows after 6pm. The local Vue cinema near us charges £6 and you have to pay about £3 for parking so a night out at the cinema works out pretty expensive (which is why we go on Orange Wednesday’s instead). Photo’s uploaded to my flickr page.