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Richard Condie: The Apprentice

John Henson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:04:15 +0000

The Onion: 911 Conspiracy Theories

John Henson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:49:49 +0000

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

The Onion: Death Penalty Is Totally Bad-ass

John Henson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:47:30 +0000

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

Those pesky Duke boys!

John Henson — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:46:03 +0000

I know it’s old. Get over it.

glumbert - Bush and Cheney as the Dukes of Hazzard

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John Henson — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:42:07 +0000

more fail, owned and pwned pics and videos

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Make HTML tables and forms with Excel

John Henson — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:21:20 +0000

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.

Remember stuff gooder.

John Henson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:22:56 +0000

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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I like turtles

John Henson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:04:38 +0000

Big deal. The kid likes turtles.

Listings expired for MythTV

John Henson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:24:12 +0000

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…

Presenting BoR (Bingo on Rails)!!!

John Henson — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:31:08 +0000

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!