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Batch renaming files using Excel
Pardon the repost of the internet, but this is a handy trick that I occasionally forget. I’m putting it here to remind myself, really. Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs
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Print Directory Listing
Have you ever needed to print a list of all the files in a directory? Sure, we all have. But unless you’re a DOS kind of person it’s a real pain in Windows. Well, now with the new Print Directory Listing feature you can! Here’s a screenshot of the context menu in Windows Explorer with […]
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New Personal Jingle: Chris Schoen
This one’s going out to my friend, Chris Schoen. He’s a master of wearing cardigans, which, sadly, I couldn’t shoehorn into this track.
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Odd book find: Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought, 1898
While packing up our books I came across something I didn’t know we had: Horace Fletcher’s “Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought” from 1898. It’s a self-help book that proves that genre has been crazy for as long as it has existed. Some randomly selected passages: Does lightning sometimes strike people and kill them? […]
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Replicating a Word Checkbox
Need to autopopulate a Word checkbox in a form, but can’t actually use one of the content controls for some reason? Good news: You can use MS Reference Sans Serif with a width of 140% to replicate the look of a checkbox with an X.
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Testing adding a YouTube link
Just trying out adding a YouTube link using the Ultimate TinyMCE editor for WordPress: Looks like it works, yay!
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Trying a SoundCloud plugin
One of the things I think I like about WordPress so far is the ease of adding plugins. Here is a SoundCloud plugin that links to the latest music I’ve written. [soundcloud_ultimate track=https://soundcloud.com/michael-hightower/sets/oblique-comedies]
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Welcome!
Welcome to the new mphtower.com. I’m switching to WordPress from Joomla with the hope of making this easier for me to manage. We’ll see how this goes! You can still reach all the old mphtower.com content via www.mphtower.com/web, but there’s something funny happening with the database.