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I’ve been having some problems with some plugins I installed in Visual Studio 2005.  I like to have everything neat and clean, but this particular plugin keeps expanding all of the items in my Solution Explorer.  I searched the net for a solution and came across a macro that will collapse all of them for me!  Now, I’m a happy camper.

Try it out.  After you get it all set up, you will be able to collapse everything by just pressing alt+/.

Collapse all in Visual Studio [via Falafel]

I can’t believe what I have just seen.

It may not be the best game ever, but in my mind it’s one of the best two.  Second only to the BCS National Championship game of 2005.

Can a football team really give up 6 turnovers, be down by 20 points in the third quarter, have no offensive points, and win the game? Apparently so.  That’s what the Chicago Bears did today.

Urlacher is the man.

Super Bowl, here we come.

I love Gmail plugins!  In addition to GTDGmail, I am now using this handy little Greasemonkey Script. It uses Google Reader and integrates it with your Gmail.  Don’t use Google Reader?  Neither did I.  I was using Sage, and was able to export all of my feeds via OPML and import into Google reader.  It’s now seamless.  I love Gmail and Firefox!

I have always wanted to be able to do this, and just today came across the ability to move programs on the taskbar. My only question is: Why didn’t anyone come up with this sooner! It’s totally free and works like a champ!
Download It Here

Have you ever heard of GTDGmail? If not, you need to start using it today. It’s an absolutely incredible plugin for firefox that has pretty much revolutionized the way I organize my life (and my gmail inbox).

It’s based on getting things done, a book that was written a while back by David Allen. There are several resources out there to learn about the GTD philosophy. The best of which I have found is at 43 Folders about getting started with GTD.

Check it out! It’s worth the time to learn how to get your life organized!

This is actually pretty easy to do with firefox.  Thanks to the guys over at lifehacker  for pointing this out!

All you have to do is install the IE Tab extension for Firefox. Open up one account in a firefox tab, and the other in an IE tab.  That’s it!  I have also found this can be helpful if, for instance, you have multiple adwords or adsense accounts.  Enjoy!

In addition, there is an actual plugin that is designed to do this.  I haven’t tried it yet, but you can find the information at gmail.pro. Try it out and let me know what you think!

I was having a problem today in IE. I wanted to have a single table cell with a border, but no other cells with a border. You would think it would be easy by applying the following style to the cell:

border: 1px solid black;

You would be wrong. For some unknown-IE-buggy reason it doesn’t work. Here is what does work: Apply the following style to the table:

border-collapse: collapse;

You can do this either by placing

style=”border-collapse: collapse;”

in your table tag, or by placing that code in the table section of your style sheet. Or, by placing it in style tags in the document for that matter. But you get the picture.

So, if you apply that style to your table, the previously mentioned style for your table cell will work. Do you want to know why? Well, so do I. I have no idea why that works, but it works. And that’s good enough for me!

Credit for this goes to this guy.

I came across a great article today by Darren Rowse, which discusses Google’s new blog search service and how to get listed on it.  Check out the article here.

by John Book

After rewatching the opening scene and
thinking through some things, I liked last night’s premiere. I know some didn’t, so I thought I’d present the case:

1. It basically did the same thing last year’s premiere did–a) showed us a
bunch of new stuff that we don’t quite understand–and then explained much
of it within the next handful of episodes and b) set a tone/motif/theme for
the season. I think we got this last night–we don’t know what the Others
are up to, but we see a glimpse of their real world that we don’t
understand.

2. The conversation in the book club at the beginning contributed to that
theme-setting, and I thought it was clever. They’re arguing about whether
the book they’ve read has any artistic merit or depth or whether it’s just a
bunch of pointless sci-fi hooey. Kind of like the show itself. One
question: why was Juliet crying at the very beginning–while looking in the
mirror, playing the CD, and burning herself on the muffin pan?

3. Someone said, “This should have answered questions instead of posing new
ones.” Well, actually, I can’t think of any major questions left from the
finale that I had. I mean, we know what the Hatch does and that’s all done
with. The main questions (aside from the need for more info about Dharma) I
would have would be “What’s up with the Others and how they work and what
are their goals, etc.” and this show felt like the beginning of the
answering of those questions. Yeah, there are a lot of mysterious things
still going one, but some of the answers you can intuit–remember the five
research fields of Dharma? Psychology, parapsychology, zoology, meterology,
and electromagnetism? We’ve seen most of these areas multiple times–and
many of them last night. Juliet uses psychology on Jack, and then he
imagines his dad’s voice coming from the speaker–but was that a
hallucination or something psychic–and we’ve seen the animal cages and in
the past two seasons plenty to do with unusual weather and electromagnetism.
So…I don’t know, it’s all there.

4. What was up with that boy, and why was he forced to apologize? Just
wondering.

Anyway, it wasn’t perfect, in some ways it was frustrating, but I’ve gone
this far, and I trust that the writers weren’t going, “Hmmm…let’s make her
cry for no reason, and Kate’s wrist be all messed up for no reason, and
Sawyer’s short escape for no reason…” I bet there are reasons. And so I
liked it. So there.