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	<title>Comments on: BABlog colors and something to listen to</title>
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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: MO Man</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27437</link>
		<dc:creator>MO Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phil, change of subject, and hope that this reaches you so that you can promulgate it. While you were in Seattle, you were just a few miles north of a bedroom community of Federal Way, which desperately needs some insight and guidance. The school board has said that if Gore&#039;s DVD is shown in the classroom, time must be allotted for &quot;opposing views&quot; (of any kook in the neighborhood). This originated with a parent who thinks the earth is 14,000 years old. Speak up or the dumbest among us will be given more air time than they ever deserve. Surely this is not what Andy Warhol hoped for. Link to story:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011107EA.shtml</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phil, change of subject, and hope that this reaches you so that you can promulgate it. While you were in Seattle, you were just a few miles north of a bedroom community of Federal Way, which desperately needs some insight and guidance. The school board has said that if Gore&#8217;s DVD is shown in the classroom, time must be allotted for &#8220;opposing views&#8221; (of any kook in the neighborhood). This originated with a parent who thinks the earth is 14,000 years old. Speak up or the dumbest among us will be given more air time than they ever deserve. Surely this is not what Andy Warhol hoped for. Link to story:<br />
<a href="http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011107EA.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011107EA.shtml</a></p>
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		<title>By: mikelr</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27436</link>
		<dc:creator>mikelr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Phil, I&#039;m fighting HTML and CSS at the moment and always seem to come across these sorts of issues! Hence I hope the following is helpful to you.

Your problem is that your individual post pages have been truncated at some point recently: they are currently missing the body and html end tags as well as the all important footer div. It&#039;s all important because it includes the attribute clear:both.

In standards-based browsers (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konquerer, etc) you&#039;ll notice the white background is stopping at the end of the righthand sidebar. If the content is longer than that sidebar, it will overflow the white background into the blue background of the body. This is because the right sidebar is the only fixed section of the page; the left sidebar and the content are floating. The clear:both attribute in effect restarts the fixed content of the page after the end of the floating objects. Floats can be powerful, but they can also give you one hell of a headache.

I can&#039;t remember if your individual post pages had the same footer as on the main page, but I suspect so. At the very least you&#039;ll need a div with a clear:both style attribute in your html code after the end tag of the sidebar div but before the end tag of the page div (the footer div has clear:both as one of its attributes already, which is why it does the job on the main page).

Keep up the good work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Phil, I&#8217;m fighting HTML and CSS at the moment and always seem to come across these sorts of issues! Hence I hope the following is helpful to you.</p>
<p>Your problem is that your individual post pages have been truncated at some point recently: they are currently missing the body and html end tags as well as the all important footer div. It&#8217;s all important because it includes the attribute clear:both.</p>
<p>In standards-based browsers (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konquerer, etc) you&#8217;ll notice the white background is stopping at the end of the righthand sidebar. If the content is longer than that sidebar, it will overflow the white background into the blue background of the body. This is because the right sidebar is the only fixed section of the page; the left sidebar and the content are floating. The clear:both attribute in effect restarts the fixed content of the page after the end of the floating objects. Floats can be powerful, but they can also give you one hell of a headache.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember if your individual post pages had the same footer as on the main page, but I suspect so. At the very least you&#8217;ll need a div with a clear:both style attribute in your html code after the end tag of the sidebar div but before the end tag of the page div (the footer div has clear:both as one of its attributes already, which is why it does the job on the main page).</p>
<p>Keep up the good work!</p>
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		<title>By: Sticks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27435</link>
		<dc:creator>Sticks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I went to that Seti site and clicked on the wrong link and spent an interesting 50 odd minutes listening to the programme about chimps and Bonobos. Could be worth a listen even if it does not have Phil.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I went to that Seti site and clicked on the wrong link and spent an interesting 50 odd minutes listening to the programme about chimps and Bonobos. Could be worth a listen even if it does not have Phil.</p>
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		<title>By: codegirl.dk</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27434</link>
		<dc:creator>codegirl.dk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You should definitely use version control. CVS and subversion are both excellent tools, although subversion is newer and sexier. You add you wordpress code to a repository, then you get the new wordpress release and check that in as a branch and the you merge the branches. Once you have resolved all conflicts you have a new system with the latest version of wordpress and your own tinkering. And you will have a historic record of all edits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should definitely use version control. CVS and subversion are both excellent tools, although subversion is newer and sexier. You add you wordpress code to a repository, then you get the new wordpress release and check that in as a branch and the you merge the branches. Once you have resolved all conflicts you have a new system with the latest version of wordpress and your own tinkering. And you will have a historic record of all edits.</p>
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		<title>By: Kaptain K</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kaptain K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It seems to be working now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems to be working now.</p>
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		<title>By: Buzz Parsec</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27432</link>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Parsec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Safari as well.  I first noticed it about a week ago.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Safari as well.  I first noticed it about a week ago.</p>
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		<title>By: Tukla in Iowa</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/01/10/bablog-colors-and-something-to-listen-to/comment-page-1/#comment-27431</link>
		<dc:creator>Tukla in Iowa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It happens in Konqueror, too.  Perhaps the blog software is doing something IE-specific that messes up standards-compliant browsers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It happens in Konqueror, too.  Perhaps the blog software is doing something IE-specific that messes up standards-compliant browsers.</p>
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