Hi Maryann,
Just cut and paste! (Well, you have to open "Edit" first . . .)
Palin Approves Obama Energy Plan
As for the how part . . . I don't know the details of the system, but Google cache addresses include all sorts of extra spaghetti for the techies and the geeks. Some of it might even be useful, if you knew how to use it. Anyway, if you look at the URL that Martin posted, you'll see that the main page address (
www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php) is used twice. The second instance appears about midway across the line at the plus sign +. Anyway, what I think happens is that that the scripting on the site here (Eratosphere) sees this as two addresses and can't figure out which to use when the whole lot is placed in the [url= . . . /url] coding. And so the "url" button doesn't work properly for cached pages.
But it's easy to fix. Just cut the Google URL before the repeat in the address, right before the plus sign:
. . . p%3Fid%3D1384
+http://www.g . . .
Delete everything after the plus sign (including the plus sign!), then paste the edited URL into the "url" button dialogue box. And you're done!
Steve C.
p.s. Editing back: I think I've figured it out. The second repeat of the address is for the
current page, as it appears if you go to its home site. (The first repeat, of course, is for the cached page at Google.) Below, I've broken the original URL posted by Martin into its three components for easy inspection. First comes the cache address, the page that we want to see. Second, the trouble-making plus sign. And third, the address for where the page
should be on "gov.state.ak.us." Which, if you click on it, does indeed lead you to a 404 "page not found" error.
They removed the page. How very interesting . . .
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:wbCGTUeD1r0J:www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%3Fid% 3D1384
+
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/news.php%...lnk&cd=1&gl=us
Anyway, all you need is the cache address, so as I said above, look for the plus sign, and cut everything that follows, along with the + itself.
We might want to file this one somewhere . . .
[This message has been edited by Stephen Collington (edited August 30, 2008).]