Archive for March 13th, 2006

Spring Break, Day One

I’m going to keep track of my activities over the break to ensure that I get something done.

Today, I went to RadioShack and got a new rechargeable battery for our cordless phone. I also cleaned up all of the LEGOs from the living room and vacuumed. Aaron came over yesterday, and we spent the afternoon building a new LEGO set: a fish, a shark, and squid. Glow-in-the-dark teeth and stuff too. Very cool.

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Excel: Make Paste Special Default

paste special.PNGI was pasting data from a web page into an Excel spreadsheet, and I wanted to make everything have a consistent style. The function I used to do this is right-click -> Paste Special -> Text. This “inserts the contents of the Clipboard as text without any formatting” — exactly what I wanted. But it was a waste of time and effort to go through the Paste Special dialog box every time. There had to be a faster, better way… but it wasn’t obvious. After a quick Google search, I found this excellent way to do it:

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RoundCube Webmail Client

roundcube.PNGFinally a webmail client that isn’t Gmail but still looks decent. RoundCube webmail project, though the latest revision is only v0.1-beta. You can actually install this on your own server. Other webmail clients look terrible in comparison.

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WP-Hashcash Check Failed

I think this is an effective but silly way of weeding out comment spam. Invariably, legitimate comments are filtered out: Continue reading ‘WP-Hashcash Check Failed’