Bridge blogs

[pigpenz]

American Idol is the warm up for 24

[Guest Jlall]

American Idol is the warm up for 24

dont like this show B)

[Guest Jlall]

If I understand this correct then Justin's avator was on the show. So the show can not be unwatchable

Yes she is the reason i starteed watching, haha...oh to be a teenager...oh wait I am...

[hrothgar]

With that said just bought the new Garbage CD and it is cool.

I saw Garbage this spring when they were touring to support the albumn.

GREAT concert. easily one of top handful of live events that I've ever seen.

 

However, I'm expecting that Sleater-Kinney will blow them away...

The Woods is a great albumn and the girls are (supposedly) on fire!

[mike777]

With that said just bought the new Garbage CD and it is cool.

I saw Garbage this spring when they were touring to support the albumn.

GREAT concert. easily one of top handful of live events that I've ever seen.

 

However, I'm expecting that Sleater-Kinney will blow them away...

The Woods is a great albumn and the girls are (supposedly) on fire!

Cool Dude, I need to check them out.

[Guest Jlall]

With that said just bought the new Garbage CD and it is cool.

I saw Garbage this spring when they were touring to support the albumn.

GREAT concert. easily one of top handful of live events that I've ever seen.

 

However, I'm expecting that Sleater-Kinney will blow them away...

The Woods is a great albumn and the girls are (supposedly) on fire!

Garbage is concert? awesome!!! I bet that totally rocked.

[fifee]

I just visited http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/ so that I could hear some Garbage :D

 

I listened and watched the video Bleed Like Me. A bit dark for my taste :P

 

I have stumbled onto American Idol while surfing and never heard anyone who could carry a tune, but Justine is so cute, who cares?

[hrothgar]

I just visited http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/ so that I could hear some Garbage :D

 

I listened and watched the video Bleed Like Me. A bit dark for my taste :P

 

I have stumbled onto American Idol while surfing and never heard anyone who could carry a tune, but Justine is so cute, who cares?

Check out the videos for Special (NOT the live version). I'm Only Happy when it Rains, or Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) for something a bit lighter by Garbage...

 

Better yet, check out http://www.sleater-kinney.com/index2.php

 

The video for Entertain and the MP3 for One Beat both rock...

[inquiry]

Ok.. i have tried to set up a blog. I am using the PBN2htm program. This thing works ok, but for one thing. No matter who dealt, it always has WEST open the bidding. That is a problem because if north deals and opens 1♣, it shows west opening a club.

 

Anyone know a free application out there that converts lin, pbn, or some other file format to html? Also, the code that this thing produces makes a nice looking web page, but when pasted into the blogger thing, the hands no longer look so nice. Can fix it, but am hoping for an automated solution. Maybe cascade can make html table outpput an option in lincoverter.exe... hehe.. i will forward this message to him.

[inquiry]

Ok, i have a work around, that seems to be working.

 

1) Download two utilities from Wonderful Richard Pavlicek, one is his BRIDGE FILE CONVERTER (BFC) that converts our Lin Files to Pavlicek's RPN format. The other is his RBN TO HTML CONVERTER (R2H) that publishs the file in html format.

 

You can put this in word, create a macro for getting rid of the c.gif, table.gif, x.gif, etc. I replace c.gif with <B>C</B>. You can link to a gif from these on the web if yuo like, but if you use very many it slows it down, so i stick with just letters. This is close to "automated" if you consider using two utilities, and then word with a macro to stip out the unwanted stuff.

 

An example of the output can be seen on my blog, in the "Winning with Cherdano"" post on my blog. It is not as pretty as the original html output from Pavlicek's program, but that is due to my stripping out the good looking images.

 

Still looking for an easier way, but at least this works fairly quickly

[scoob]

Maybe cascade can make html table outpput an option in lincoverter.exe... hehe.. i will forward this message to him.

if linconverter outputs to plain text (which i believe it does, haven't played with it much) you can put that output in <pre></pre> tags to preserve the formatting and spacing. not as pretty as html, but might save you a few steps in the meantime.

[inquiry]

if linconverter outputs to plain text (which i believe it does, haven't played with it much) you can put that output in <pre></pre> tags to preserve the formatting and spacing. not as pretty as html, but might save you a few steps in the meantime.

Linconverter does plain text, and I tried plain text with a number of html codes like <code> and <pre> but they didn't work. All the spaces are taken out. I considered using global finid and replace to chance all space into nonbreak spaces with the nbsp (with ampersand in front of it).. but that makes the text hard to read in the editor.

[scoob]

if linconverter outputs to plain text (which i believe it does, haven't played with it much) you can put that output in <pre></pre> tags to preserve the formatting and spacing.  not as pretty as html, but might save you a few steps in the meantime.

Linconverter does plain text, and I tried plain text with a number of html codes like <code> and <pre> but they didn't work. All the spaces are taken out. I considered using global finid and replace to chance all space into nonbreak spaces with the nbsp (with ampersand in front of it).. but that makes the text hard to read in the editor.

did you include the closing tag for </pre> ?

 

if so, are you displaying the html directly or through some type of pre-parser or other?

 

here's a sample i just made from linconverter using the pre tags:

 

http://www.speedofwood.com/temp/linpre.htm

[inquiry]

did you include the closing tag for </pre> ?

Yes, of course. I can make very pretty text displays that work well in browsers, but when you post it to the blogger page, it goes kaput.

[scoob]

did you include the closing tag for </pre> ?

Yes, of course. I can make very pretty text displays that work well in browsers, but when you post it to the blogger page, it goes kaput.

ah, then you need to edit the .css file for your blog, presuming the provider allows you to do so (i think most do nowadays) or find a different host that isn't beyond your control. B)

[Gerardo]

Ben, can you try ♠ ♥ ♦ and ♣ for the suits?

[Guest Jlall]

nice another bridge blog. I see a trend starting B)

[mike777]

Thank ben, just visited. I see site is still under construction but enjoy reading these blow by blow accounts of bbo tourneys.

[inquiry]

Ben, can you try ♠ ♥ ♦ and ♣ for the suits?

Hi.. Thanks, that worked for three out of the four.... that pesky Diamond showed up as a square. I posted the text as you wrote on the blog... if you would like to view it. It would be easy to make diamonds and heart (if a diamond showed up) red.

 

Ben

[inquiry]

Ok.. you can print text hand from linconverter if you copy and paste them in the "EDIT HTML" page and apparently, surround it with <pre> and </pre> tags, and never preview it.. just post it.

 

That will be a huge help. Doesn't look as pretty, but hey, it is easy. Thanks Scoob.

[scoob]

Ben (and anyone else that might be interested):

 

If you have MS-Word available on your machine, I have written a small piece of code & toolbar that will go through a lin-text file and add all of the html complaint suit symbols automatically, for the auction and the trickplay, and add <pre></pre> tags.

 

If you would be interested in a copy, please email me.

[Gerardo]

Ben, can you try ♠  ♥    ♦    and ♣ for the suits?

Hi.. Thanks, that worked for three out of the four.... that pesky Diamond showed up as a square. I posted the text as you wrote on the blog... if you would like to view it. It would be easy to make diamonds and heart (if a diamond showed up) red.

 

Ben

Been there ;)

 

Forums use this in CSS:

 

.spades { color: blue; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 120% }

.hearts { color: red; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 120% }

.diamonds { color: orange; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 120% }

.clubs { color: #00C000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 120% }

 

then, ♠ is <span class="spades">♠</span>, etc.

 

Verdana, the default font/family, has problem with the diamond symbol

[nickf]

nice another bridge blog. I see a trend starting :blink:

I want to commend Justin's blog http://squeezingthedummy.blogspot.com/ to everyone. There's some seriously good thought in there.

 

And from the number of comments in reply to his posts, it looks like he's building up a sizable audience.

 

nickf

sydney

[Guest Jlall]

thanks nick, that was nice of you :blink:

 

(ok i paid him 50 bucks)

[inquiry]

Ok, thanks to Keylime and Jlall starting blogs, I have begun one (well three). The one I really wanted to do is Identifying Squeezes, the concept to web publish my book on Squeeze plays, with lot and lots of example/quiz squeezes.

 

As many of you know i tried to use this forum to share my thoughts on squeezes, but it just isn't suited to the format of a book, with chapters. The blog above seems to be working. I have the introduction posted, along with links for the seven chapters I have finished. The chapters are not posted, however, just the first paragraph or two.

 

The reason the chapters were not just dropped in is the font I used for suit symbols didn't convert. and the hand diagrams didn't carry over as well as I liked. I have found a work around that is a little difficult to use, but looks nice except for faint line around the suit symbols.

 

I plan on reposting and adding the extra material I left out of the chapters I posted here on the forum, as well as posting the remaining chapters on that blog.

 

Ben