So then, Tony's off soon

[matgb]

Tim at bloggerheads was working on this one for a bit, thought I'd already posted it but must've forgotten. His breakdown of the dramatis personae is rather good as well. The basic theme we could've been anything that we wanted to be pretty much does sum up this Govt; so many lost opportunities, broken promises, half hearted efforts and poorly thought through responses. Ah well. Enjoy:

The ever excellent paul_linford_fd sums it ups nicely:

But with all his talent - and public goodwill - Tony Blair really could have been anything that he wanted to be, really could have been up there with Clem, Sir Winnie and the Iron Lady.

ETA: andrewrilstone I thought I had better say it before someone else does:

There's is an awkward clash on the TV schedules tonight. On one channel at 7PM there's a programme about an evil meglomaniac who gets himself elected prime minister for his own nefarious purposes, while at the same time on the other side it's "Doctor Who".

Very droll.

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Re: Format Question

[matgb]

It's a standard CSS tweak, quite easy once you know how. Go to Journal Style and put the following three bits of code into the custom CSS:

q {
background:#777;
       -moz-border-radius: 5px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  font-style: italic;
}
blockquote {
background:#777;
padding:10px;
       -moz-border-radius: 10px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  font-style: italic;
}
blockquote blockquote {
background:#4a525a;
padding:10px;
       -moz-border-radius: 10px;
       -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  font-style: italic;
}

You'll want to change the colours, and always make sure you put quotes in either [q] or [blockquote] tags. The curved corners only show in Firefox and Safari, they're CSS3 tricks and IE is only barely CSS2 compliant :-( The third set of code is to remove the grey if there's a quote inside a quote, brings it back to my normal default.

I keep meaning to write up a how to, but then I get distracted by pretty things like more Doctor Who...

Re: Format Question

[yellowbounder.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot!