software and junk

Follow the excellent instructions at http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html

Remember to change the advanced settings for the hard drive in the bios from AHCI to IDE before booting from the newly made USB boot disk. If this step isn't done, the only drive that will show up in the Windows XP setup is the USB drive you booted from which is a no go.

Most existing sports web pages seem to needlessly spread the most useful information across three different pages. Here's an idea of how to consolidate the bare essentials (what are the standings, whats the score, when is the next game) into one page:

The score/next game column would link either to the box score of games in progress or the preview for a future game. Some additional columns could be pulled from the standings page (including win/loss streak).

March 1998, Palm III (160x160, doubled to more closely resemble physical size):

June 2009, Palm Pre (480x320):

You be the judge. The cell phone radio is certainly nice to have on the Palm Pre, but the Palm III could last for a month of daily usage without recharging. The Palm III was also faster as the UI and hardware were very close to each other, whereas modern software tends to ride on babelesque towers of abstraction.

I hope to improve this in the future into a utility of some sort, but for now here is the xslt to get inline comments out of the comments.xml file:

http://snipplr.com/view/14782/extract-inline-comments-from-a-word-2007-d...

1. Rename your .docx file to .zip
2. Extract the .zip file and grab comments.xml from the word folder
3. Use a program like Xselerator to apply this xslt to comments.xml

The impetus for this is that Word is my (and I'm assuming many others as well) organization's de facto standard for documentation. Again like many organizations we are required to track document review history (and it is a good practice in general, like tagging your commits) and often reviews are performed by marking up an original document with in-line word comments. Unfortunately it is tricky to browse old reviews when they are hidden in the middle of a 100 page document, so it would be nice to extract them automatically and view the entire review history on a particular document to get a better idea what happened to it over time.

What I really want is a user friendly (Sharepoint FAIL), braindead simple (Sharepoint FAIL) version control system for documentation that integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word (Sharepoint kinda sorta tried to do this but FAILED), so why don't you build it for me? I'm sure it will make you tons of money.

Just released on the Android Market -- an Android version of the That's What She Said iPhone app. Check it out and let me know what you think!

If you have an Android powered mobile phone with a camera, jump to That's What She Said using the Barcode Scanner app on the following qr code:

Its a pain to use Google Chrome without access to delicious.com quicksearches, so here is an app that can read bookmarks exported from delicious and import them into Chrome. Download it at: http://lukehunter.net/software/ChromeSearchImporter.zip

1) Export bookmarks from Delicious:
Log in to the delicious website and go to settings, then select Export / Backup Bookmarks.
Make sure "include my tags" and "include my notes" are checked.

2) Run Chrome Search Importer
It will attempt to locate your Chrome Web Data file, but you may browse for it if you wish.
Load the delicious bookmark backup using the lower "..." button.
Make sure Chrome is closed.
Click Import.
It will take 15-20 seconds to import your data, be patient. You will be notified when the import is complete.

If you have problems, check the error.log file in the same folder as Chrome Search Importer.exe. Leave a comment if you need help.

Update: Delicious changed their backup bookmark format, Chrome Search Importer can now read the new format.