The Spike is a useful little Microsoft Word feature. The Microsoft Word Help says:
To use the Spike, you remove two or more items from nonadjacent locations, append each item to the Spike’s contents [using CTRL+F3], and then insert the items as a group in a new location or document. The items remain in the Spike, so you can insert them repeatedly. If you want to add a different set of items to the Spike, you must first empty the Spike’s contents [with CTRL+SHIFT+F3].
Basically, you can go around selecting text and images and pressing CTRL+F3 to grab them from the page and stick them in the Spike. When you’re done, you press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 and it spits out everything you’ve put into it. It is also cleared when you do this.
I have now got a legitimate domain name: this site can now be found at www.maestrosync.com!
I love everything the Chaser team does, and that includes the War. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a comedy show, recorded in front of a live studio audience, where the team discuss various happenings and generally generate comdy. This week, among other things:
- they played clips of, and talked about, Chas Licciardello’s boneheading at the Logies (as I called it last week)—he scored a grand total of around 34 appearances.
- Craig Reucassel went door-to-door with email spam
- Charles Firth vox pop’d Americans, trying to see if he could get one to break George Bush’s record of saying ‘freedom’ 17 times in one speech/conversation (he succeeded)
This is one show I’ve got to get on DVD, but in the meantime I’m downloading the episodes.
There’s a (fairly) new version of foobar2000 (the minimalist, powerful, extensible, brilliant audio player) now available: 0.9.1. Some new features (playing WMAs, for one) and a fair bit more polish than 0.8.3.
Also, make sure you get the Columns UI component for maximum graphical niceness.
I’m back on a new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, which I am now paying real money for (but not much of it, because they’re awesome). This should mean ultra-reliability. As a random aside, one of my all-time favourite Spamusements, “I know what you did last summer”:
Sunday night was Logies night, Australian TV’s night-of-nights. While it’s hard to take the audience-voted awards, the Silver and Gold Logies, seriously, it was still, without doubt, a highly entertaining night. Night. Adam Hills was backstage in the green room, interviewing winners as they came off the stage, Bert Newton did a predictably good job as one of the five hosts (the others did a good job, too), a truly bizarre Joan Rivers swore and staggered, not to mention the insane performance from Cirque du Soleil, and all the presenters struggling to say “Natalie Bassingthwaighte” (or fit it onto a statuette). The Chaser team were there in full force, too—especially Chas Licciardelo, who ‘boneheaded’ his way into almost every shot possible (and even hijacked the stage at one point). Chris Lilley (of We Can Be Heroes and Big Bite fame) picked up two logies, including the inaugural Graham Kennedy Outstanding New Talent award, and did a live performance of ‘Indigeridoo’, in-character as Ricky Wong. While he didn’t win an award, Heath Franklin (aka. Ronnie Johns) was nominated for the Oustanding New Talent award and was shown drunk at his table, which was covered with empty beer bottles.
Finally, the Gold Logie: the sentimental favourite John Wood finally took it out, breaking the ten-year drought of being nominated without winning.
PS: the Logie has got to be the coolest-looking award statuette ever.
PPS: RIP, Richard Carleton.
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Slashdot has announced a CSS redesign contest; the winner also gets a laptop. Judging by the look of some of the current contenders (see CmdrTaco’s Journal), the end result is going to be very good. I’m looking forward to it.
Gave it a proper readme, cleaned up the code, added an option for better Display properties behaviour on Windows XP.
bkgset is a tool for randomly setting Windows wallpapers.