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Robert: Part three

Following on from my last few posts I’m trying to be a little more pro-active.

If you want to participate in the hunt for my friend Robert I have made a badge that you could host to help spread the word. I’ll be reporting regularly here to give you any news I receive.

Here is the badge:

You can copy the code below:

<a href="http://graham-lawrence.com/wp/2008/03/17/robert-part-two/">
<img src="http://www.graham-lawrence.com/files/looking_for_robert.jpg"
alt="Looking for Robert, a long lost friend." /></a>

It was not as easy as I thought to post the above code without it being interpreted a second time. In the end I had to install a plugin (Code-Markup) and this allows me to display just the code without markup. I would have thought that this should be integrated with WP but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

That’s strange don’t you think?

Anyway, please help spread the word to help me find Robert!

Tags: Friends, information, links, missing person

Read the words

I signed up for ReadTheWords earlier so I can combine pleasure with exploration without even losing focus.

Here is yesterday’s post read out for your listening enjoyment. Although the voice is synthesized it’s not too bad and I can think of several uses for the service.

I need some help from you now (but if you are not quick enough I may already have found a solution). I have made a hostable badge to spread the word to find Robert but I can’t display the code for the badge here in WordPress. It always comes out as executed html even though I enclose it with the right tags. Any ideas?

How do you do it?

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Tags: missing person, questions

Robert: Part two

I lived in Edinburgh from 1968 to 1978 and had some very good friends. Robert Irvine (Whose photo I posted yesterday), John Sharp, who later came to Switzerland and was my best man at my wedding and James whose surname I have forgotten although it might be Cameron. We used to hang out together frequently, discovering music and taking photos and doing what friends do best, having a lot of fun.

I’ve lost touch over the years and would really like to get in touch with them. I want to try the power of the web because they must have made or are making waves on it as I write.

I’m starting with Robert.

Robert was born in Edinburgh and lived with his Mum in Lauriston Place before emigrating to the States. I know he was living in San Francisco in 1984 because the last photo of him was of his wedding with a woman named Sharon that was taken with the Golden Gate bridge as a backdrop on the 19th of February 1984.

Please help me find him by relaying this info and the photo I posted yesterday. I know it’s possible. Let’s make it happen.

Tags: Friends, information, missing person