Archive for August, 2006

New Kids Pictures August 2006

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

There are new kid pictures up in the photo gallery.

Useful Emacs commands (for cleaning up WowchatLog.txt)

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

M-x flush-lines REGEXP
Delete each line that contains a match for REGEXP, operating on
the text after point. In Transient Mark mode, if the region is
active, the command operates on the region instead.

e.g. M-x flush-lines \[2\. Trade
removes lines logged from Trade channel

M-x keep-lines REGEXP
Delete each line that _does not_ contain a match for REGEXP,
operating on the text after point. In Transient Mark mode, if the
region is active, the command operates on the region instead.

e.g. M-x keep-lines \[Guild\|Officer
keeps only lines from Officer chat and from Guild chat

World of Warcraft Battlegrounds for Dummies

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

World of Warcraft Battlegrounds for Dummies is a good intro guide to WoW battlegrounds

Simple library software

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Joel Spolsky is looking for Simple library software? Oddly enough, Jaimie and I were talking about this kind of sotware just this morning. We’d really like to catalog our books simply and inexpensively.

XP’s No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

XP’s No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option is a guide to rebuilding Windows XP, something I had to do recently.

On taking a road trip with little ones

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

parent hacks: On taking a road trip with little ones
looks like it might have some good ideas for our next trip out to Alberta.