Easy bits and hard bits... I've been trying to add more combinations of stylesheets to my templates. Right now, I can move the menus to the, left, right or make them disappear.

But, I want to add text sizes. However, I can't, well, not the way I want. I can swap individual stylesheets, or even groups of stylesheets, or make one style sheet out of several.

I want to be able to select say the 'left' sheet, then the bigger fonts sheet. And for that to be persistent in cookies. I can, with the method of loading the @Import but this would require a new page load.

I thought I could write two cookies, one for the menus, one for the text. I'm not sure if that would work (if I spend hours on it) as it seems that the selection of link sheets is a either this or that, not some of these, one of those and an other of this. You cannot pick and mix, only pick.

Mark Wilton-Jones has a solution to select two sheets, but the rest are switched off. So, I'd have to have a user select, 'left, big' or 'left, small' and 'right, big' or 'right, small' and so on. But, when I want to throw in 'red' and 'orange,' I'm going to get into dumbass stuff.

How can I pick and mix from hundreds of tiny little stylesheets? I'll have to sleep on it.

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Other title(s) for this story: Style Sheets in HTML documents

"Yahoo said the figures reflected the continued popularity of its sponsored web searches, which mention advertisers' names in conjunction with certain search results.

It also credited strong sales of fee-based services to consumers and small business users.

Sponsored web searches, introduced last year, have proved a runaway success with small business advertisers who cannot afford larger online promotions."

I've been wondering about Google's adsense. My mate put them on his football site for 4 days and scoped $175. But some of his click through rates were around 33% which is waaaay too high. So he's been kicked off. OK... Fair enough, though he's pissed off, obviously.

But, he wondered, well demanded, to me and I guess to Google in writing, that he be paid his $175.

I wonder if they will. I wonder also if it's the advertisers who paid, sometimes up to $2 for each click, who'll be paying or Google? I bet it'll be the advertisers.

I don't think Google adsense will last that long.

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"Cut it with the bling bling and do something for the community, man"

They've also added some promo for next Monday's meet at House of Commons. I bet it gets packed out now. Lucky I put my RSVP in early.

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I love the colours in this pic. Looks like an old master's oil painting, something heroic about Hector.

Madness in the garden yesterday. Big Amy, our regular Wednesday morning baby sitter, came back from the park with two kids who wanted the pool filled. Up. So I get the hose pipe out... Fun with hose pipes. Esme kept coming into the kitchen wanting hot water, then when I'd go the hot tap fitted up (with luke warm water) she wanted that switched off. 15 time she came up to me with the same type of requests... Meanwhile Bradley's spraying everything and anyone who come too close. I think that's more the reason she wanted the attention. Played the classic standing on the hose pipe joke with Bradley. Esme was co-conspirator, at first telling me to get off the pipe, then after I shush her and with my mischivious smile, then looking on, expectantly. Bradley started to complain, "Uggg, Daddy, no water..." "Look down the pipe, Bradley." To receive an eye full of water. Esme and I pissed ourselves, and Bradley joined in the laughing. "Again!" He says. So we do it again, and again, and one more time, but I'm fed up, so to his calls of "Again!" I disappear inside. Jokes and kids. Pa! The self timer isn't happy with the exposure... Oh, well.

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"Its purpose is simple: produce HTML documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these addresses as links at the end of each text node."

I found this on Mark Canter's blog and apparently, some people have it working in Blosxum and MT. Looks quite interesting, this purple stuff, and from two years ago. Never heard of it before.

I'd like to add this to my Radio. And currently thinking it through. It's the versioning that could be the problem. If I create, say, a story, and add purple links to the paras. Fine. But later I move paras around... There's some info on the purple page about versioning... Hmmmm. Interesting

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