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”:
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.