OpenOffice macro for showing identical cells

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Here is a simple macro to show all cells on the document with the identical text as this cell. I use it in OpenOffice Calc when I’m making the school schedule and I want to visually check that no one has parts too close. I have this macro configured to use F3, so I can just use the arrow keys to move through the schedule, and press F3 on each name. Pretty handy.

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Posted in solutions on March 20th, 2007 | No Comments »


Review: The Stars

The Stars: A New Way to See Them

This book, The Stars: A New Way to See Them by H. A. Rey gets my absolute highest marks. This book is a masterpiece that I firmly believe every child should receive as a gift at an early age and have read to him at night.

If I was stranded on a desert island, after the Bible, this would be the second book I want to have.

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Posted in books on March 13th, 2007 | No Comments »

Fascinating, Obfuscated C

Here is a neat little program from the International Obfuscated C code contest. Run it with gcc -traditional-cpp -o pi pi.c.

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Posted in programming on March 8th, 2007 | No Comments »