function getCookie(name) { // use: getCookie("name");
    var index = bikky.indexOf(name + "=");
    if (index == -1) return null;
    index = bikky.indexOf("=", index) + 1; // first character
    var endstr = bikky.indexOf(";", index);
    if (endstr == -1) endstr = bikky.length; // last character
    return unescape(bikky.substring(index, endstr));
  }

function Open (c) {
    window.open(c,
                    'chat',
                    'scrollbars=yes,status=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no');
}
	
var req;

function loadXMLDoc(url)
{
    // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        req = new XMLHttpRequest();
        req.onreadystatechange = processReqChange;
        req.open("GET", url, true);
        req.send(null);
    // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        if (req) {
            req.onreadystatechange = processReqChange;
            req.open("GET", url, true);
            req.send();
        }
    }
}

function processReqChange()
{
    // only if req shows "complete"
    if (req.readyState == 4)
    {
        // only if "OK"
        if (req.status == 200)
        {
            response  =  req.responseText.split("\r\n");
            if(response[0]=="<style>")
            {
                    // must be the blogring
                    document.getElementById("blogs").innerHTML = req.responseText;
            }
            else
            {
                n = 0;
                if(response[n]=="update blogs")
                {
                    loadXMLDoc("http://www.simong.org/blogring.php?hide=SimonG&hide_before=24",1);
                    n++;
                    document.getElementById("first_blog").innerHTML = response[n];
                    n++;
                }
                                else if(response[n]=="limerick" || response[n]=="0")
                                {
                        if(response[n]=="limerick")
                        {
                                                        n++;
                            document.getElementById(response[n]).innerHTML = response[n+2];
                            document.getElementById(response[n]).setAttribute("title", response[n+1]);
                            document.getElementById('nextline').innerHTML = response[n]+1;
                        }
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                        document.getElementById("chatroom").title = response[n];
                                        n++;
                                        document.getElementById("chatroom").src = "../myicons/chat"+response[n]+".gif";
                                        n++;
                }
                        }
        }
    }
}

        var clockID = 0;

        function update()
        {
                clockID = setTimeout("update()", 5000);
                url  = 'http://www.simong.org/online.php';

                                if(document.getElementById("first_blog"))
                                {
                                        url += '?lastblog='+document.getElementById("first_blog").innerHTML;
                                }
                loadXMLDoc(url);
        }

        function updatelimerick()
        {
                setTimeout("updatelimerick()", 1000);
                var nextline = document.getElementById('nextline').innerHTML;
                url  = 'http://www.simong.org/limericks/getline.php?id=' + nextline;
                loadXMLDoc(url);
        }

        function startTimer()
        {
          clockID = setTimeout("update()", 20000);
        //  if(document.getElementById('nextline')) setTimeout("updatelimerick()", 1000);
        }

        function endTimer()
        {
          if(clockID)
          {
            clearTimeout(clockID);
            clockID  = 0;
          }
        }

function listitem(link,onclk,image,text,id)
{
if(image.substring(image.length-1)==" ") image=image.substring(0,image.length-1);
if(link.substring(0,4)!="http") link = "http://www.simong.org/"+link;
        t = "<li><a href="+link;
        if(onclk) t += " onclick=\""+onclk+"\"";
        t += "><img src=\"http://www.simong.org/myicons/"+image;
        if(location.href.indexOf("simong.org/"+link)!=-1) t+= "_g";
        else if(Math.random()<0.3 && image!="chat0") t+= "_a";
        t += ".gif\" title=\""+text+"\" border=\"0\" height=\"62\" width=\"62\"";
        if(id) t += " id=\""+id+"\"";
        t += "></a></li>";
        return t;
}              

var reqBlog;

function loadXMLDocBlog(url,id)
{
   // branch for native XMLHttpRequest object
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        reqBlog = new XMLHttpRequest();
        reqBlog.onreadystatechange = function() { processReqChangeBlog(id); }
        reqBlog.open("GET", url, true);
        reqBlog.send(null);
    // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX version
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        reqBlog = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        if (reqBlog) {
            reqBlog.onreadystatechange = function() { processReqChangeBlog(id); }
            reqBlog.open("GET", url, true);
            reqBlog.send();
        }
    }
}

function processReqChangeBlog(id)
{
    // only if reqBlog shows "complete"
    if (reqBlog.readyState == 4)
    {
        // only if "OK"
        if (reqBlog.status == 200)
        {
            response  =  reqBlog.responseText.split("\r\n");
           document.getElementById("blogentry"+id).innerHTML = response+document.getElementById("blogentry"+id).innerHTML;
                   document.getElementById("blogentry"+id).style.visibility = "visible";
                   id++;
                   if(document.getElementById("blogentry"+id))
                 loadXMLDocBlog("http://www.simong.org/blog.php?cached=1&p="+document.getElementById("blogentry"+id).getAttribute("name"),id);
        }
    }
}

function insertblog()
{
         loadXMLDocBlog("http://www.simong.org/blog.php?cached=1&p="+document.getElementById("blogentry1").getAttribute("name"),1);
}