Archive for January, 2007

UTW URL rewrite problem

Posted on Thursday 25th January 2007 under IT by

Various solutions to this problem are discussed on the UTW forum.

Parents want to move house

Posted on Saturday 20th January 2007 under Personal by

Andrew Grant is the agency that are selling Mum & Dad’s house; the listing for the property is here.
Also this is the bungalow they want to buy in Winsford.

Domesday 1986

Posted on Monday 15th January 2007 under IT by

I have found it – and it finally works – the 1986 Domesday Project rescued from laser disc and available on the web here.

Somewhere in there is an article written by Christopher as a child – I vaguely remember something about canals, but I haven’t found it yet.

RSS feed plugin for WordPress

Posted on Monday 15th January 2007 under Reference by

Plug in page.

10 minute SEO check

Posted on Sunday 14th January 2007 under Reference by

Must spend some more time following this up:

http://www.sarahfreelance.co.uk/2006/02/28/10-minute-seo-check/

UTW performance fix

Posted on Sunday 14th January 2007 under Reference by

Aparently UTW suffers from an expensive query – this site has a fix:

http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/09/27/simple-utw-performance-boost/

Excel code snippets for file, path and tab names in cells

Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 under Reference by

From xlDynamic.com

File path, file and worksheet name:

=CELL("filename",A1)

File path only:

=LEFT(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)-1)

File name only:

=MID(CELL("filename",A1),FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)+1,

FIND("]",CELL("filename",A1),1)-FIND("[",CELL("filename",A1),1)-1)

The sheet name:

=MID(CELL("Filename",A1),FIND("]",CELL("Filename",A1))+1,255)

Restriction: this technique only works for workbooks that have been saved at least once.

Expanding (folding) category lists

Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 under Reference by

I really must get around to implementing these plug-ins to stop clutter in the WordPress category and page lists.

See also here.

Consider the following JavaScript:
// Toggle Show/Hide

function toggle(name) {

if (document.getElementById(name).style.display == "block") {

document.getElementById(name).style.display = "none";

} else {

document.getElementById(name).style.display = "block";

}

}

flOw

Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 under Play by

Titled “Flow in Games” this is the game of flOw created by Jenova Chen for a thesis. On further reading it is based on work by a psychologist called Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (nope, never heard of him.)

Not only is it elegant in its simplicity, it is also a good way of passing five or ten minutes…

flOw game.

Map of the Internet

Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 under Reference by

Clever, historically interesting, but probably useless today.

Map of the Internet (IP v4 space 2006).