Copy and Paste in Blogger

Some people might want to use their previous post to create a new one - I have a client who wants to do just that.

I tried to copy and old post and paste into a new Create Post compose screen. The words were all there but the fancy formatting - emboldened text, bulleted text, font-size changes, etc. - were all lost.

I asked a fellow Blogger blogger who tried it and all the formatting was copied, in exactly the way my client wanted. What am I doing wrong? Nothing, really. The answer was, as is so often the case these days, my choice of browser.

I use Internet Explorer browser (like 73% of the world) but she is using Mozilla Firefox (about 20% market share*).

* Source: Market Share

Using Internet Explorer 7, copy and paste between Blogger screens loses all formatting, even new-line/paragraph. Using Firefox (I occasionally do, v 3.0), the formatting is retained. Yet another reason to make Firefox my primary browser, and IE7 my secondary.

And another way, of course, would be to copy/paste the HTML code, and not the text as seen in the Compose screen.

LinkStar Media again

Further discussions on the Aardvark Business forum might even be part of the reason that LinkStar Media do now have a website, albeit one that is bland in the extreme, and still has no "real world" address.

There was a lengthy contribution to the discussion by someone from LinkStar Media, who seemed to answer many of the specific questions that had been posted by other sceptical website owners.

See the Aardvark Business forum.
Update 3 September 2008: Sorry, no you can't see the Aardvark Business forum on the subject of LinkStar, because a LinkStar manager has requested the forum entries be removed.

However, most others viewed the responses from LinkStar as "unconvincing." Of course, you can make up your own mind, and hopefully the discussion on the Aardvark forum will help your decision-making.

Testing to get the bullet

I am having trouble with bullet lists, or unordered lists. They look OK in the Compose view, bullets show up in the Preview view, but when they are published, they indent is present but the bullet graphic has disappeared.

Like this

• Bullet one
• Bullet two
• Bullet three

What's happening?
Well the test didn't perform quite like I remembered it failing before. Looks like a good bullet list to me.

LinkStar Media

I received an intriguing offer for a text link from one of my very successful websites. And they offered me to suggest the price.

The company offering to buy the advertising link was LinkStar Media. I did some basic research into the company, based on the email sender's URL but could not find satisfactory answers to my enquiries.

Usually, I just delete this type of email even before doing that type of research but something made me want to investigate further. So I Googled the company name and found a blog discussing the subject.

You can see the resulting discussion, comments, and opinions of LinkStar Media here [there used to be a link here].

Note added 3 September 2008:
No, you can't see the resulting discussion because a LinkStar manager requested it to be removed.

70s revisited - will it last longer this time?

Ford has been getting pretty good on economy recently but their response to the 2008 fuel crisis is a huge leap, with the debut of the 2009 Fiesta EcoNetic at this week’s London Motor Show, held at the Excel exhibition halls.

The small hatch has an optimized diesel engine that places it at the very top of the UK’s list of economical five-seaters. Rated at a combined efficiency of 76.3mpg (63.6 mpg U.S.gallons, 3.7L/100km).

The primary modifications that achieve the economy include aerodynamics, lower suspension, lower rolling resistance tyres, low friction oil, shift indicator light (remember the Ford Escort "change up" light?), modified engine calibration, and a higher transmission final drive ratio from 3.37:1 to 3.05:1.

The 89hp (66kW) 1.6L TCDi diesel produces just 98g/km CO2, and with a starting price of just £11,845, available in three-door or five-door variations, both rated at identical efficiency values, the Fiesta EcoNetic is looking like a serious threat to relatively complex hybrids.

Other EcoNetic models will follow...

Source: Motor Authority
Further reading: Green Car Congress