The move to “cruft-free” URLs for blog pages (i.e. URLs with no user-hostile content) appears to be a hot topic these days. Reading an item such as Mark Pilgrim’s “Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type“, however, along with the many, many comments and feedback items listed under it, is giving me a bit of a headache. […]
Hot on the heels of the recent BBC article on the hidden dangers of Microsoft Word documents, what do I get in the mail this morning? Not one, but two unsolicited email messages from two different companies that I had never heard of and who had obviously found my email address on the Applelust.com web […]
I have the following Word macro command in my Normal template: Sub lowerCase() Selection.Range.Case = wdLowerCase End Sub As you can see, it’s as simple as it gets. The only reason I created it is that I was getting tired of going to the “Format” menu, choosing “Change Case” and selecting “lowercase” and clicking on […]
I am a long-time customer of Amazon.com and, more recently, of their Canadian store. I’m generally quite pleased with the service. However, today I received the following email: From: “Amazon.ca” Date: Lund août 18, 2003 9:20:59 PM Canada/Atlantic Subject: ORDER “The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season” Today! Greetings from Amazon.ca! As someone who has purchased […]