Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.#600 Home Hack -- Need to paint your bedroom but not sure how many gallons of Dutch Tile Blue to buy? The Interior Paint Calculator will help you estimate the amount of paint you will need to paint an interior room -- including all the trim. m. Enter room length, width, height, baseboard, width of trim, number of windows and door, etc., and it will give you the paint in gallons and quarts. (HT: LifeHack.org)
#601 Firefox Extentsion -- ReminderFox is an extension for Firefox and Thunderbird that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. A useful tool for anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a full-fledged calendar application.
#602 Word Keyboard Shortcut -- Alt+F4 -- Exit - Closes Microsoft Word.
#603 Know Your Fallacies -- Argumentum ad hominem - The person presenting an argument is attacked instead of the argument itself. This takes many forms. For example, the person's character, nationality or religion may be attacked. Alternatively, it may be pointed out that a person stands to gain from a favourable outcome. Or, finally, a person may be attacked by association, or by the company he keeps.
There are three major forms of Attacking the Person: (1) ad hominem (abusive): instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion. (2) ad hominem (circumstantial): instead of attacking an assertion the author points to the relationship between the person making the assertion and the person's circumstances. (3) ad hominem (tu quoque): this form of attack on the person notes that a person does not practise what he preaches.
#604 Google School -- The inanchor: tag Ssarches for text in a page's link anchors (the descriptive text of a link). For example, the link anchor in the HTML code <a href="http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com>World's Greatest Blog</a> is "World's Greatest Blog."
#605 HowTo -- Make an exact change holder.
#606 MS Word Hack -- How to add blank pages separating items in a Word document (e.g., chapters of a book): To divide the document into separate sections, click your cursor at the point where you want to create a new section, say, at the end of each chapter, and then select the Break option from the Insert menu. In the Break box, you can specify where you want the new section to begin, say, "t" to follow continuously on the same page or "n" to start on the next page. (HT: LifeHacker)
#607 SoYouWanna -- Babysit an infant.
#608 Download of the Week -- Freeware program Gmail Remote Command lets you send commands to open files or shutdown your computer through your Gmail account. (HT: LifeHacker)
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#603. Golly, we've never seen that in the comments here have we?
posted on 08.23.2006 7:31 AM2
Alt-F4 works for any Windows application.
(Unless the application traps it, and that is quite rare.)
Its corrollary, Ctl-F4, closes a sub-window. For instance, when you've got 6 images open in PhotoShop Elements and want to close one, make that one the current window of focus and press Ctl-F4 to close it. Same with multiple Word or Excel documents.
Collin
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com
posted on 08.23.2006 9:14 AM3
Hmm. I do seem to recall ad hominem discussed before.
http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/001482.html
posted on 08.23.2006 11:05 AM4
Franklin Hmm. I do seem to recall ad hominem discussed before.
Despite the impression we might get from reading blogs, the list of fallacies is actually finite. ; )
I ran through the list of them already so I had to start again. Once more through and then I'll have to find something else for that weekly slot.
posted on 08.23.2006 8:42 PM