Activewords - I noticed that Earnie the Attorney (love that name<g>) has refered some traffic to u_m from his ActiveWords testimonial page and I thought I'd make mention of the programs capabilities.  I haven't actually tried the software, but the feature set does sound intriguing.

"...Activewords is a hard thing to describe.  It's a system type of program.  It matches "words" to "actions."  Once you install it ActiveWords watches what you type and is ready to act on any word (or phrase) that you have defined." - Kind of like voice recognition without the voice part.

Basically, it sounds like AW allows you to define a global glossary (similar to the UserLand glossary found in Radio) for use in all of Windows.  If differs, however, in the sense that the substitution can involve more than simple text transformation.  What sounds very much like macros or scripts can be programmed to run off these glossary words.

  10:45:50 PM    

>>> ... IE Booster v1.4 [350k] W9x/2k/XP FREE http://www.paessler.com/download/ieboostr.zip http://www.iebooster.com/products/ieb/ http://screenshot.lockergnome.com/iebooster.png {More context options} If you place your cursor anywhere on a Web page and right-click, you see something called the context menu. This varies depending on where the cursor is (on a link, a picture, whatever). The context menu is actually quite helpful, but IE Booster adds a whole buncha other items to it. Let's see, there's a way to show only the hyperlinks (perfect for locating things fast), show images only, show CSS (style sheets), resize the window, and a bunch of other things. Try it, you might like it. Note: This only works with Internet Explorer 5 and higher. Of course, you could always rely on Bookmarklets, too (if you don't want to install the extra software). <<<  [via Scobleizer Radio Weblog]

Actually, Jenny @ "TSL" turned me onto this little util a week or so ago, but I just now got around to Blogging about it.  I used  the Copy Title as <A Href="URL"> Title<a> feature at least once (if not more) each day since installing it.

  9:50:15 PM    

>>> Sean Nolan is one of those "dotbomb survivors." He used to be pretty high up at drugstore.com, but now he has a new idea: keeping kids safe on the Internet. I like this idea since my eight year old son has already gotten spam like "does your penis need to be bigger?" Ahh, those porn site operators. Making life fun for parents everywhere. Anyway, Sean's new site at http://www.mail4mykids.com will let your kids have an email account but will also allow you to keep your kids safe as well. <<<< [via Scobleizer Radio Weblog]

I intend to utilize this service if it can be used behind a proxy.  A proxy behind a proxy... don't ask (unless you want all the gory details) I would think it should work OK, but we'll contact them all the same.

  9:40:54 PM    

Test post to restore previous postings on RU Desktop Homepage.  Recieving ERROR:

[Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "00000015".]

UPDATE: This was a problem with weblogData.root - entry numbered above was somehow converted from table to wptext and was essentially empty.  I simply deleted and refreshed the home page and the postings returned.  Don't know what was posting 00000015 and what might have got lost, but it's too late to worry now.

  5:29:41 PM