Sunday Craft

This rainy Sunday I scratched two of my (many) perennial itches: neatness and creativity.

Sorting and cataloguing photographs somewhat sated my pernickety Virgo desire for neatness and order. When things are not ‘in place’ I am essentially incapacitated until they are. Someone dear to me composed a little ditty about this, something along the lines of:

“Something’s in a place it shouldn’t be! I’m going to fetch my apparatus to put it right”

They would gently sing it to me in an ultimately vain attempt for me to come to my senses when I was in a ‘putting-in-order’ paralysis.

In the process of tagging, starring and deleting I found a number of photos I wanted to polish up and put online. The ensuing Photoshopping sated my second itch of the day. As for other itches, let me just thank-you for the cream recommendation; it’s working out fantastically.

As a result, there are a number of new pictures up in:

Urban

6. July 2008

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Ligerator

I’ve put the Ligerator online. It’s a simple web-based tool which lets you easily generate a Microsoft Word macro to do a bunch of text replacements.

My main reason for developing it was to maintain scripts for typographic ligature replacement, for example to transform:

into:

Once you’ve set it up, you can bookmark a magic URL which allows you to return to the preset, make some changes and re-generate a new macro, or share it with someone else.

The code generated should be portable across Word versions and platforms, however I’ve only tested on Word 2007 running on Windows.

p.s., if you don’t see the difference in the two samples above, Ligerator is clearly not for you.

28. December 2007

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