General Musharraf, the soon-to-be-ex-president of Pakistan, has had opposition leaders arrested.

Imran Khan, the Pakistan cricketer turned politician, has been placed under house arrest and the leader of the main opposition party has been arrested and taken away.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has been removed from his position for refusing to endorse Musharraf’s emergency order and the Supreme Court is surrounded by troops.

The Attorney-General of Pakistan said that the civillian government was still in place.  With a mad general at the helm arresting opponents, banning freedom of the press and banning the courts from rescinding his emergency order giving himself absolute power over the country.

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Blockquotes can be formatted using but one thing you can’t do with pure CSS is put rounded borders on your blockquotes.

You can insert a box with rounded corners if you are happy to do the HTML but would you really want to do that with every post on your blog?

Well, the good news is, you don’t have to with this BlockQuotes plugin for WordPress.

[quote]This is what you get using the default graphics but you can easily customise it to fit in with your site style.[/quote]

Despite the name “BlockQuotes”, the rounded corner effect isn’t actually produced with a blockquote tag (what you get when you click the  button).  What it actually does is replace all instances of [quote] and [/quote] with several divs to build up the box where the blockquote would normally go.  It will also do the same for blockquote tags although you can turn this off.

There are a couple of things to bear in mind when using this plugin:

• If you don’t close your tags properly then it will probably mess up your template but WordPress will do that everywhere, not just with this plugin.
• If you have a floated image that overlaps the blockquote, it will sit over the top of the image rather than wrapping round the overlapped part of the image like a proper blockquote.
• Nested blockquotes look crap with this plugin.  Why would you want to use nested blockquotes though, they look crap!
• If you add any parameters (such as style or cite) to your blockquote tag, it won’t convert your blockquote.

Anyway, give it a whirl and see what you think.  Download the plugin, unzip the contents, copy the blockquotes.php file to /wp-content/plugins and then activate it.  Simple as that, no initial customisation required as the plugin looks here for the images unless you tell it to look elsewhere.  The default images are in the zip file with the plugin if you want to host them yourself or use them as a template to base your own images on.

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The Met Police have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws by shooting Jean Charles De Menezes.

Rather than charging individual officers with murder, the Met as a “company” was prosecuted.

I don’t think that we really want to be setting a precedent of charging police officers for following orders – that way lies madness.  However, Sir Iain Bliar is the head of the Met and he was responsible for his officers when they shot an innocent Brazillian man on the tube and then shot him several times whilst he was dead on the ground and then lied about what happened.

Iain Bliar is a turd of the highest order but should he resign?

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