Richard Condie: The Apprentice

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 | Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 2:04 am by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

The Onion: 911 Conspiracy Theories

9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 | Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 1:49 am by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

The Onion: Death Penalty Is Totally Bad-ass

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 | Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 1:47 am by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

Those pesky Duke boys!

I know it’s old. Get over it.

glumbert - Bush and Cheney as the Dukes of Hazzard

Posted on July 20th, 2008 | Sunday, July 20th, 2008 4:46 am by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

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Posted on June 11th, 2008 | Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 5:42 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

Make HTML tables and forms with Excel

Sweeeeeeet.

The concatenate() function allows you to easily combine the tabular Excel data with XHTML markup by stringing together text and the data contained in the spreadsheet cells.

The function syntax is simple: =concatenate(A1,”text”,A2)

Essentially, what this says is take the value that’s in cell A1, combine it with the string value text, and then combine those two with the value in cell A2. So, if the number 3 was in cell A1 and the word testing in cell A2, the function would output: 3texttesting

Enough talk! Show me a screen shot.

Figure 1 is a screen shot of the original MS Excel^® table to give an idea of the workspace.

Posted on May 4th, 2008 | Sunday, May 4th, 2008 5:21 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

Remember stuff gooder.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak

“Piotr Wozniak’s quest for anonymity has been successful. Nobody along this string of little beach resorts recognizes him as the inventor of a technique to turn people into geniuses. A portion of this technique, embodied in a software program called SuperMemo, has enthusiastic users around the world. They apply it mainly to learning languages, and it’s popular among people for whom fluency is a necessity — students from Poland or other poor countries aiming to score well enough on English-language exams to study abroad. A substantial number of them do not pay for it, and pirated copies are ubiquitous on software bulletin boards in China, where it competes with knockoffs like SugarMemo.”

 

 

 

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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 9:22 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

I like turtles

Big deal. The kid likes turtles.

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 5:04 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

Listings expired for MythTV

So…my mythtv box stopped working about a week ago. I just got around to looking at it tonight. It turns out that the Zap2it DataDirect listings have a subscription that had expired. All I had to do was go here http://labs.zap2it.com/ and extend it for free. Good thing I rememberd my login…

Posted on October 18th, 2006 | Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 8:24 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »

Presenting BoR (Bingo on Rails)!!!

This weekend my kids wanted to play bingo — we had a stack of cards and some plastic markers and it seemed like a good idea. We decided that we would write a quick RoR (Ruby on Rails) web app to “roll” for us. We had a good time playing so I decided that I’d post it here for others to use.

Here are some simple instructions:

1. Reloading the page starts a new game

2. Pressing enter or “NEXT!” brings up a new bingo number (Yes I’m using AJAX. Yes there’s a better way.)

3. The grey box on the right hand side has the game history. This is handy for the older folks who like to play lots of cards.

4. The game is “over” when every number from B1 to O75 is exhausted. It should really be over long before that — if you ever get to a game over state just reload the page to get a new game. I guess I should really put a link in there…

That’s it! All feature requests/flames/whatever belong in the comments. Which are moderated by me.

Here’s the link to BoR (Bingo on Rails). Enjoy!

Posted on October 17th, 2006 | Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 7:31 pm by John Henson | Permalink | Add your $0.02 »