Wil Tan » farout http://dready.org/blog musings on internationalized identifiers: domain names, OpenID, TLDs Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Not everything is bigger in America… http://dready.org/blog/2004/11/28/not-everything-is-bigger-in-america/ http://dready.org/blog/2004/11/28/not-everything-is-bigger-in-america/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:18:57 +0000 wil http://blog.dready.org/2004/11/28/not-everything-is-bigger-in-america/ South Africa Adaptor

Went out to Paddy’s Market to buy a travel adaptor for South Africa in preparation for tomorrow’s trip to the ICANN meeting at Cape Town, imagine my horror1 when I saw this. The American plug looks puny beside it.

1 Actually, I almost felt violated.

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]]> http://dready.org/blog/2004/05/18/pearpc/feed/ 1 Goodbye Mrs. Benz http://dready.org/blog/2004/03/30/goodbye-mrs-benz/ http://dready.org/blog/2004/03/30/goodbye-mrs-benz/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:49:01 +0000 wil http://blog.dready.org/2004/03/30/goodbye-mrs-benz/

We finally sold the car yesterday… (see previous post). For A$500!!! You think it’s cheap? Some people even had the guts to offer me $250, think again.

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Especially the Flybar.. this stuff is supposed to bounce you 5-6 feet off the ground! Imagine how irritating it would be to see them on the streets! I thought skateboarders were morons… to think that I was doing quite a bit of Rollerblading almost 10 years ago.. guess I’m gettin’ old. *sigh*

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]]> http://dready.org/blog/2004/02/25/toys-and-flybar/feed/ 0 viWord http://dready.org/blog/2004/02/15/viword/ http://dready.org/blog/2004/02/15/viword/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:23:47 +0000 wil http://blog.dready.org/2004/02/15/viword/ While digging through some old archives, I found a piece of MS Word macro I wrote almost 3 years ago as a proof-of-concept, dubbed viWord. It allows you to use vi-like keybindings in Word. It should work for Office 2000, XP and 2003. vi-philes who are forced to work in Word might like it.

However, as this is only an experimental toy, it is not intended to be used seriously. However, given enough interests I might consider reviving it and making it into a proper product (for free, of course).

Implemented keybindings:

  1. Switching from Normal to Insert: i, a, A, o, O
  2. Insert to Normal: Esc
  3. Movements: h,j,k,l,w,b,$,0,Ctrl-F,Ctrl-B
  4. Undo, Redo: u, Ctrl-R
  5. Editing: x,X
  6. Count-movement: 10-j (move down 10 lines)

Get it! You know you want to.

Instructions can be found in README.txt

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