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Return of the blue-tongued lizard!
Posted:Jan 15, 2021 3:52 am
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2022 5:05 am
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One at least has returned after several years. Out in the front yard this week, there he was. The one from the back yard, I cannot see where he could hide, trees were destroyed in a storm, and taken out

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Blue-tongued lizards fighting on the front porch
Posted:Nov 24, 2020 7:20 pm
Last Updated:Jul 18, 2021 1:15 am
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Left, left left
Table
row1 cell1     cell2     cell3    
row2 cell1______ cell2______ cell3______
row3 cell1 cell2 cell3
aligned
centred

Just demonstrating centering and left and table


I tried TO show the html but it all gets rejected as 'inappropriate' - beats why - I'll just delete it. The vetting algorithm is obviously CR*P
{SIZE 3}
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Nothing much - just a flower from my recent walking
Posted:Nov 14, 2020 6:24 am
Last Updated:Feb 2, 2021 7:45 pm
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Red passion flower nearby
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Time to change your photo when you are mistaken for hillary
Posted:Apr 18, 2015 9:12 am
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2019 11:33 pm
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Have you ever used the Google or Tineye image search? Great for spotting cheats and imposters here in friendfinder

I Checked my own Image here, and came up with some hits that convince me to change my image. If Google is mistaking me for Hillary Clinton, perhaps my suspicions that my photo doesn't look macho enough are right. A bit gay, bakla?

I right-clicked Searched Google on this image:
Then I turned up only one match and some near hits.

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how to see full photos if you only see thumbnails (updated 2019)
Posted:Apr 18, 2015 1:11 am
Last Updated:Nov 15, 2020 3:59 pm
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How to see full photos if you only see thumbnails

If like me/moi/ako (why do they delete 'm'e'?), you can only see thumbnails, and only one photo, there is a way to see it full (not large) sized, and a second and third ... photos too

here is an example, a nice (curiosity killed the cat) member and some of her photos:

To enlarge a Photo
In the windows explorer browser, if you Right Click on any thumbnail, and select properties l, like this following thumbnail:
elizabethvivian2 - (apologies to elizabeth... she is the guinea-pig)
And here is lovely cris's:
cris1961
You can copy-paste the image property into a browser. Edit the url, changing 'square' to 'main' Voila!
In Chrome you can right click, Copy Image Url

Surely Firefox has a similar method...

I do it by pasting the url into Excel, and changing 'square' to 'main' by formula, then using the hyperlink function:
=HYPERLINK(SUBSTITUTE(A70,".square.",".main."),"LargerPhoto")

To get more than one image if they exist
Create a blog post, make it visible only to friends, and hide it once it is created, to protect privacy. First insert small photos/thumbnails using the member x, photo1 x, photo2 x, photo3 x... tags in the blog.
Image tags are square-bracket photoX name squarebracket like {photo2 eliza...} but with square brackets. Missing photos just show the usual grey head outline.
I do it by pasting the url into Excel, and changing 'square' to 'main' by formula, then using the hyperlink function

elizabethvivian2 elizabethvivian2 elizabethvivian2 elizabethvivian2 elizabethvivian2

There is one final method which works only when the main profile photo also has a large version - called a superphoto
Then Changing the .square. to .superphoto. gives you the largest version.
See my 4th photo below






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From the Internet - some extracts about FriendFinder Network
Posted:Jul 23, 2014 4:05 pm
Last Updated:Apr 18, 2024 1:19 am
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We all know that FF Network has been making consistent losses over the last few years (10?), That their two attempts at IPO's failed to raise anything like the capital they were looking for. I guess rumour about imminent demise has been 'rife'. In September last year they filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; just before Christmas they emerged again with the original(?) backers/creditors taking over their own but reduced debt. I think it had blown out to over $500m, now it is in the low $300m ballpark. However the underlying problem of ongoing loss hasn't gone away, and as I said at Filipino FriendFinder 'Da Writing's on Da Wall'

Here are some articles - you can find them if you search for:
        "Website Operator FriendFinder Cleared to Exit Bankruptcy"
        "Form 8-K Friendfinder networks 18-Dec-2013 "
        "What 'Penthouse' Owner FriendFinder's Bankruptcy Says About Sex" Sep 17th 2013

The following extract is from The Wall Street Journal, Dec 16th 2013, written by Katy Stech

A federal judge has cleared Penthouse magazine publisher FriendFinder Networks Inc. FFNTQ -41.33% to leave bankruptcy as a private company with much less debt.

At a hearing Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., Judge Christopher S. Sontchi gave his approval to the reorganized business plan for FF's business, which blamed its financial troubles on fewer Internet-user visits to its more than 8,000 social-networking and adult-content websites.

The plan allows a group of lenders who are owed $330.8 million to forgive that debt and take 100% of the reorganized company's new common stock.

The bankruptcy is expected to leave shareholders in FF, which trades publicly on Nasdaq, with nothing to recover. However, major existing shareholders Marc H. Bell and Daniel C. Staton, who bought Penthouse out of Chapter 11 protection in 2004, are expected to get a piece of the reorganized company through a deal they struck before the current bankruptcy filing.

Under the Chapter 11 plan, FF's first-lien noteholders, owed $234.3 million, would exchange their debt for new notes in the same principal amount, plus additional cash or notes, according to court papers.

FF's roughly 435 employees runs social-networking and online-video websites, including adult-oriented sites such as AdultFF and more traditional online-dating sites such as FastCupid and PerfectMatch. Earlier court papers said that the company's websites had more than 750,000 subscribers as of Dec. 31, 2012.

The company has seen its financial performance deteriorate throughout the past year. Its total revenue for the four quarters ended June 30 was $293.7 million, a 10.1% revenue drop that was due to a sharp decrease in revenue for its social-networking websites.
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