Dan Poynter

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Tip: Macros in Notepad++

If you find yourself performing several of the same operations within Notepad++, you can use its Macro option to record and save them. This morning I was able to use it to record Paste, Find What, Replace With, and Replace All into one handy keystroke.

Top Question

Here I am, just trying to find out ‘Why can’t I copy from Amazon CloudReader,’ and here are the Google autocomplete suggestions: Why can’t I poop is the top question?

Quotable: Geoffrey Chaucer

“He is no cuckold who has no wife.” –Chaucer, The Miller’s Tale

Fix mouse lag issue connecting from Mac OS to Windows 7 running Citrix XenDesktop

At work I use an iMac running Mac OS X 10.11, and I connect to my Windows 7 computer via Citrix XenDesktop. I am running Citrix Receiver 12.1.100 on the Mac, and XenDesktop VDA 7.6 on Windows. The other day I started getting a weird issue: when I would connect in the connection would work …

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Quotable: Benjamin Franklin

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

Overheard: 25 yr old female

“I need the caffeinated beverages that don’t taste like sadness.”

Proud to be ‘Murican

I see a lot of stuff online about, “Welcome to America, now speak English.” I do think immigrants to America should learn to speak English. However, I also think Americans should learn to speak English as well. And while we are learning how to write and speak English properly, perhaps we might also learn to be courteous to those …

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299,999

A few weeks ago my friend Jeff rolled over 300,000 miles on his car. I mentioned to him that I was just about to roll 300k on my Toyota. A few days ago when my girls were both home from college I noticed I was just 24 miles of my milestone, so we got in the …

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Quotable: Buford Van Stomm

“My mom said if I break one more bone she’s gonna break the rest of ’em.”

Quotable: Jonathan Leeman on congregational singing

“Far better than the sweet harmonies of a few trained singers is the rough and hale sound of pardoned criminals, delighting with one voice in their Savior.”