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Dead key

Who knew such a thing existed. Anyway. If you find that a quote key " is not appearing until another key is pressed, you probably have your windows keyboard set to US-International.

Change it to the normal keyboard via control panel or the keyboad icon on the task bar and all will be good with the world again.

-j

Merging tables in Microsoft Word 2010

Putting this here for my future self and for anyone else who might find it helpful. To merge tables in word, select the whole table, hold down shift+alt then press up or down arrows to move the table into another table above or below. -j

Just your average winter's night in Brisbane.

Head outside to bring the birds in for the night. Greeted by a 2m carpet python having a chat with one of our budgies.

#australia #lifeinbrisbane #McDowall

Blog Post: 10,000 things I wish I knew before over exaggerating everything.

Use Evernote to Travel Back in Time.

If like me, you live south of the equator, you are probably frustrated by all the seasonal based advice the Internet gives out precicsely six months before it's relevant. To be fair these "nothern hemesphire biggots" are simply catering to the majority of their audience and there is nothing wrong with that.

However, that does not help us "poor cousins" south of the equator who get a stream of interesting and useful advice exactly 6 months before or after it's useful.

Well it's time to do something about this equatorial inequality and the key to the solution is Evernote.

One of the best features of Evernote is the "clip to Evernote" plugin for the Google Chrome browser. It allows you to take a copy of a web page as either an article (just the main content), a full web page (including all the layout and images) or a screen shoot (what you see is what you get). This clip is stored in your Evernote account and is then available to you whenever you need it. Just set a reminder for 6 months from now on the article you have clipped and you have created yourself a timemachine that brings you the seasonal wisdom of the Internet when it's relevant. You will never forget another carrot planting season again.

Bonus Points:

One small annoyance I have with the Evernote reminder tool is that it doesn't allow you to set a reoccurance schedule on the reminder. Hopfully Evernote will add a reoccurance feature one day but until then there are two workarounds to this problem.

1) Simply reset the reminder to have the note pop up in another 12 months

2) Use the Evernote integration with RememberTheMilk to set a reoccuring reminder.