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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Like I said, don't mind me..

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

let's see, trying to change the colour....

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Can't seem to change the colour. I'm using the following:
The Player of Games

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Also, is it possible to change the style using "face", and to change the size of the text?
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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Of course we have to mind. So how's it going?

Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Not very well. I can't change the colour.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

The html code I'm using seems to be ok as the font tags didn't show up around "The Player of Games" on my post above.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Woohoo! Very clever! I knew where your name is from, of course. . . But only people on this side of the Atlantic will get it. Banksie is totally unknown over the pond.

I nearly used the name Zakalwe, which would be really fitting for reasons you needn't concern yourselves with. I think you were here first so I didn't.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Do you have to type the whole thing out when editing the status line for the edit to be successful or something?

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Vogon Poet: What, you killed your stepsister, made a chair out of her bones, sent it to your step-brother, and adopted your step-brother's identity when he killed himself?

PS Good to know there are other Banks fans here.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Ahh, I think it's the way "colour" is spelled in html.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Now, to find a "color" I like...

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

It'll have to do for now, I suppose.

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

If it weren't for the fact that you're already a senior member, one could argue that this is just a way to bring your post number up...

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Chickety china, the chinese chicken, you have?

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Just passing through...

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

You know, you can just edit a post to update the thread...

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Just passing out...

*thuds*

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Not exactly, Jernau Morat. But the twist - way to go spoiling that, BTW - does have something to do with it. 8)

- Dogbert

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I was just crusing the Forums when I saw this thread up against a dark background, and it's been buzzing around in my head like a wasp factory.

Ha! Now who's cool?

(Not that I've ever read any of those. I'm not entirely sure which, if any of his novels are in print here. I can never seem to find them at the bookstore, though people keep recommending them.)

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

SIXTEEN posts by himself? God, even I,the Programming Pariah, hadn't this much trouble with da HTML.

Gurgles: here's an example - EDIT to check it

HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK!!

Yeah, Yanks spell it "color".

[Edit: I think TSN had a savage-sized thing (now now, Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody! ) whereby his sentences were like rainbows, all glittery and mystical and pretty - try looking back a year or so either here in OL or in Designs, Artwork and Creativity.)
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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Really, Gurgeh, size doesn't matter. You should have heard that enough times in your life to be believing it now

Changing font size (put them inside <> brackets, and end with a "/font" inside <> as well):
font size = "1"
font size = "2"
font size = "3"
font size = "4"
font size = "5"
font size = "6"
font size = "7"

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Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

I had realized that editing the post would change the status line before everyone got on my case, but I acknowledge that I should have copped it earlier.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I've been telling Sol to read these books for two years now.

- Dogbert

Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

Vogon Poet: Have you read any of Banks' non-scifi books? I've read Whit and Complicity, which were ok, but not nearly as enjoyable as the scifi stuff. If you like Iain Banks, you should try Peter F. Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

[monger=0000CC,CC0000]Would you, by chance, be talking of this?[/monger]

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Takes too long to type in a gradient.

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Star Trek: Gamma Quadrant
Star Trek: Legacy
Read them, rate them, got money, film them

"...and I remain on the far side of crazy, I remain the mortal enemy of man, no hundred dollar cure will save me..." WoV

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Here's the original thread.

[monger=0000ff,00dddd]I'm surprised CC forgot to remove this feature. I guess it'll be gone soon, now... *L*[/monger]

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

IT'S EASY TO ORDER!

Selection of the month: This is the featured selection for your listening interest as indicated by you. This title selection is shown on the other side.More details can be found in the magazine accompanying this mailing.

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

[monger=00ff00,dd00dd]Ah, what the hell, since everyone is experimenting here, I'll try this out[/monger]

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(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

[monger=008000,EE82EE]*snicker* You have to use the hex values for the colours, Matt...

Oh, sure, edit your post while I'm typing...[/monger]

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

Oooooooooooh. Pretty colours...

*spaces out*

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

Oh, I've got watermelon colors!

:P @ Fabrux

Anyone happen to have a website or anything that lists all the letter/number combinations for colors?

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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"

(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)

Mustang Class Starship Development Project

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, you can figure it out. The first two digits are the amount of red, the second two are the amount of green, and the last two are the amount of blue. The numbers are in hexadecimal, from 00 to FF. If you don't know how hexadecimal works, it's like decimal except that, instead of each number going 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 and then back to 0 (increasing the number to the left every time you get back to zero), it goes 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-A-B-C-D-E-F and then back to 0 (increasing the number to the left).

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My new year's resolution is the same as last year's: 1024x768.

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

The upper links don't exist, is was one of the first 10 web pages I ever wrote... anyway, it has the color name, hex code, and RGB code....
Try here

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"One's ethics are determined by what we do when no one is looking" Nugget
Star Trek: Gamma Quadrant
Star Trek: Legacy
Read them, rate them, got money, film them

"...and I remain on the far side of crazy, I remain the mortal enemy of man, no hundred dollar cure will save me..." WoV

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Just spam it

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

[monger=0000FF,FFFF00]While this all nice, fun, and good, I must confess that I prefer my army of smily faces.[/monger]

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694 consecutive rejections by women since January 1993.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Actually, I've read all of his non-M non-SF books except Espedair Street. I wouldn't go so far as to say some aren't worth reading (Canal Dreams, Whit, The Business, Complicity, A Song of Stone, I'm talking about you) but the ones you shouldn't miss are The Wasp Factory, The Bridge (look out for the Knife Missile!), The Crow Road, and Walking on Glass.

Read all the M SF books, and do it in order of publication. The latest Culture novel, Look to Windward, may be his last for a while, and it's also IMO the best.

- Dogbert

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

A Song Of Stone was shit, Complicity was OK, and Against A Dark Background was quite good.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

And I have read the Night's Dawn Trilogy. Just finished re-reading it last night, coincidentally enough.

- Dogbert

Posted by The Talented Mr. Gurgeh (Member # 318) on :

I've been reading the scifi books in order, but I've kind of been held up by Feersum Endjinn. I heard it was good, but I find the parts with the phonetic spelling annoying to read.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Fearsome engine? What kind of books is this?

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

You only find out in the last sentence quite what a Feersum Endjinn it is. 8)

- Dogbert

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Finished The Naked God on Tuesday at 4am. What did you think of the trilogy, Vogon? I thought it was brilliant - better than Trek, IMN-S-HO.

(no spoilers please, I just gave Gurgeh the second part of the Neutronium Alchemist last night)

Finished The Naked God on Tuesday at 4am.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

In your not-so-honest opinion?

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Humble, Nimrod. Humble.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Just felt like laughing.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

It is good. Scarily long, though. . . I think I got a lot more that I missed first time round, reading one book every two years.

- Dogbert

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

*listens to conan-theme, thinks of taking over world*

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

cool.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Everyone here really needs to read Michael Marshall Smith too.

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Posted by Quatre Winner (Member # 464) on :

*Is currently reading "Jane's Fighting Ships of WW2".*

It's for research.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Just don't spoil the end!!

(I'm well into my "Harkonnen" now, it's good so far...)

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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

-Tleilaxu Epigram

Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Don't mind me either, doing the same, but at least I will edit this post only and not add repeated ones.

See?

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

That's a bit more than 30 characters. . .

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- Simon Sizer, 23/01/2001

Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Dat's about 67 characters...

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"Lately I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's really quite unnerving. I'm still trying to get used to it."
- Garak, "Empok Nor"