It is often necessary to replace the & character with the entity & to get validated (x)html. This clip will replace all appropriate ampersands excluding those that are part of defined character entities.
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This regex loop will remove all lines that contain only numbers on them. There is a quirk so that it won’t work correctly on one pass, so I loop it to get it to work correctly.

; by don at htmlfixit.com
; removes all numbers on a line
; for some reason the regex doesn't
; work right, so I repeat to
; get all instances -- odd but
; sometimes it goes that way
:Loop
^!Replace "^\d+\n" >> "" ATIWRS
^!IfError END
^!Jump 1
^!GoTo Loop

Sample input:

this
that
12
567
a324
-you
15
x374

Sample output:

this
that
a324
-you
x374

Keywords: regex, regular expression, remove, numbers, line, loop, repeat

I regularly have to create target splits for a five kilometer (5K or 5,000 Meter) race. This clip creates even mile splits based upon a target finish time. Read the rest of this entry »

These may display very funny for some people because of the use of the pre html tag. Read the rest of this entry »

I am a big fan of NoteTab, a text editor on steroids. I use the pro version of this software, but there is also a free, no nags or advertisements, light version available. One of my favorite features of Notetab is the clips (and I will save a bunch I wrote/write here) Read the rest of this entry »

The ESP Game claims to be labeling the web. It is a “game” where you see images and with a partner have to guess words in common. They disallow certain words for most images, including often the obvious words. The tricks seem to be to guess the word in the top left if it isn’t taboo, color if it isn’t taboo, shape if all else fails. Think of similiar words that aren’t taboo. Kinda fun I guess … but not productive … so I better finish this so I can get back to it.

Due to the recent iframe flaw found in Internet Explorer, FICORA (Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority) have warned users to avoid using Internet Explorer, at least until such time as the flaw is patched. The flaw is currently being used to create huge armies of compromised machines, and you can become one of them just by visiting a web page on a compromised web host using Internet Explorer.

In related news, Tech sites are showing massively higher Firefox usage then the general population. According to c’t, a German tech site, IE usage is down to 43% and Mozilla/Firefox up to 38.1%. Even more telling is TheInquirer (an extremely popular tech website) is showing Internet Explorer with 56.7%, Firefox with 23.5%, Mozilla with 6.6%. These stats show that the overall rankings of Websidestory and Onestat may well be inaccurate if they don’t cover tech sites.

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