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Subject: Tech: Harry's Blues From: GUEST,TheOldMole Date: 11 Jan 04 - 02:12 PM Whatever happened to Harry's Blues Online? |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Sorcha Date: 11 Jan 04 - 03:11 PM He gets over his allowed bandwidth and the site is down until the end of the month. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Cattail Date: 11 Jan 04 - 03:12 PM Hi OldMole I just did a quick Google search which gave me http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/ for Harry's Blues, but also says that they have exceeded bandwith etc. I would keep checking it every few days, it will probably come back sooner or later. Cheers for now Cattail ! |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Cattail Date: 11 Jan 04 - 03:15 PM Hi Sorcha Thanks for that, we must have posted together. Take care. Cattail ! |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Jim Dixon Date: 11 Jan 04 - 05:53 PM Here's how I recently got some lyrics from Harry's Blues Lyrics: First I used Google to search for the lyrics. Google's search results included the page from Harry's Blues Lyrics. When I clicked on the page title, I got the usual message,
The Tripod page you are trying to reach has exceeded its bandwidth limit. It will be available again in a few hours. Now, I don't know why this happens, any time you try to bring up a page from tripod.com this way, the text is there, but it's nearly illegible because the page is covered with copies of the tripod.com logo. But you can get around this problem, too. Assuming you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer, right-click anywhere on the page and select "Select All." Then right-click again and select "Copy." Then open a new document in Word. Click on "Edit" in the top toolbar (right-clicking won't work here), then select "Paste Special." Then click either "Unformatted text" or "Unformatted Unicode Text." Then you will get only the text, without any formatting or graphics. If you'd prefer not to use Word, you can even use Notepad. That's even simpler: just click "Paste." Only the text will be pasted, since Notepad is unable to handle formatting or graphics anyway. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Cattail Date: 11 Jan 04 - 06:53 PM Thanks for the information Jim, I'll save this and try it next time I go to one of those sites. Cheers Cattail ! |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Mark Clark Date: 11 Jan 04 - 07:28 PM Jim, That's a great trick; one I use for other things but hadn't tried with a Tripod site. You can improve the process a little if you search only within the site you want. For Harry's Blues the Google search string might be This will shorten the search and put the song you're looking for right at the top of the list. If you use the Google Search Bar you can just go the the Harry's Blues site—you'll get the unavailable notice—enter the song you want in the search bar and click the Search Site button. It will do the same thing. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Sorcha Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:06 PM Mark, I've been told that Google Search Bar is a 'spyware' thing... |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Mark Clark Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:51 PM They do track the page you're on just to rank the popularity of pages and present the ranking of the page you're viewing. But read their disclaimer, it's not really very scarry and they provide a popup blocker that seems to work well. I like having it and my anti-spyware software tells me it's okay. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Sorcha Date: 11 Jan 04 - 09:04 PM OK. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 11 Jan 04 - 09:19 PM Jim, why it works is because you ignore the background image that is dumped into the site to keep the newbies out. If you save the page by file - save as - Opera and later versions of MSIE V6 give you the options to "save all (includes images)" or "save as HTML text only" - the second one is almost as fast as the way you describe. If you "save all" - you can go into the subdirectory and delete the annoying graphics (you will need to read the page code to workout which images to kill) - but you get to keep the special fonts, if you want to print the page that way... you can also edit the page to delte ads etc... These are not as as easy as what you describe for beginners I admit. Robin |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: wysiwyg Date: 12 Jan 04 - 12:55 AM Save page as text file? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: GUEST,TheOldMole Date: 19 Jan 04 - 07:15 PM Thanks all -- been away for a bit, just checking back here. I'll try the suggestions. I do use the Google toolbar -- love their popup blocker. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 19 Jan 04 - 07:24 PM WYSIWYG "save as HTML text only" - save a text file - HTML is a text file - saves the HTML readable ASCII text, but no graphics files, the other stuff being saved in a seperate directory (folder) only when you choose the "save all" option. It's MicroW@nks words for the options, not mine... :-) Robin |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: GUEST,TheOldMole Date: 19 Jan 04 - 07:25 PM OK, this is interesting. I tried the "cached" trick, and I got to the page I had tried for (Big Joe Turner), but I couldn't read anything, because the entire page is obliterated by TRIPOD TRIPOD TRIPOD TRIPOD. HOWEVER....The text is there. And if you copy and paste it into a word document, you're in like Flynn. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Sorcha Date: 19 Jan 04 - 07:57 PM Thanks, Mole. Hadn't discovered that. |
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Subject: RE: Tech: Harry's Blues From: Amos Date: 19 Jan 04 - 08:06 PM The only thing I could find that worked was copying the displayed text from the cached page -- they rig a splashy logo to fall all over the page even on the cache so you can't see it. But you can select the text anyway. Pasting it into a plain text editor and cleaning up the font produces: I'm goin' get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom I'm goin' get up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom Girlfriend, the black man you been lovin', girlfriend, can get my room I'm gon' write a letter, telephone every town I know I'm gon' write a letter, telephone every town I know If I can't find her in West Helena , she must be in East Monroe I know I don't want no woman, wants every downtown man she meet I don't want no woman, wants every downtown man she meet She's a no good doney , they shouldn't allow her on the street I believe, I believe I'll go back home I believe, I believe I'll go back home You can mistreat me here, babe, but you can't when I go home And I'm gettin' up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom I'm gettin' up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom Girlfriend, the black man you been lovin', girlfriend, can get my room I'm gonna call up Chiney, see is my good girl over there I'm gonna call up China, see is my good girl over there 'F I can't find her on Philippine's island, she must be in Ethiopia somewhere __________ Note 1: both West Helena and East Monroe are in Arkansas, some 30 miles apart. A |
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