Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

European dismay over Le Pen vote

BBC News | EUROPE | European dismay over Le Pen vote

I'll be watching this situation over the next few weeks. If Le Pen wins I'll have to scratch France off my lists of places I'd like to visit.

PayPalHyperlink

Joshua Paul created a component for WebObjects called PayPalHyperlink which lets clients make payments through PayPal.

I was thinking, hey this'd be a nice thing to expose via a macro in Woller, but then I saw it's GPL'd, so I can't use it. Bummer.

MyWorkTools… thanks!

I needed to do an expense report today, and didn't want to reinvent the wheel. First I loaded Word v.X and tried to find an Expense Report in its Project Gallery. No go. Then I realized that's really a spreadsheet job, so I opened Excel v.X and looked in its Project Gallery. Nada.

I was honestly surprised by this.

(Note: I just found an Expense Report template in my personal copy of Office v.X on my PowerBook, but I didn't look there originally because at the time I assumed that they had the same set of templates. I guess the installation of Office I did at work didn't include all the templates. D'oh!)

Anyway (blushing), I went to Google and looked for excel expense report template. I found this:

MyWorkTools.com - HR - Simple Expense Report Form Tool Preview

I downloaded the form. It's an .exe file, so I opened up Virtual PC 5 and dragged the file onto my Windows 2000 desktop. Turns out it's just a WinZip self-expanding file... hm, I wonder if Stuffit Expander knows how to open those. Anyway....

Copied the file back to my work machine and off I went. It's a handy little spreadsheet, and it was free! Thanks MyWorkTools!

‘It took me a little while to get out’

Yahoo! Sports: Seles has quick loss and faster shower

Chimera be broken

Based on feedback from Steve Zellers, I downloaded and tried Chimera.. nee, Navigator (why call it Navigator?) this morning.

It looked very nice, but it wasn't much use to me since it wouldn't let me type into any of its text fields!

Obviously this isn't the case with other people since people are using it as their default browser, but I've tried launching it a few times and it's the same result. I can use keystrokes like Cmd-L to select the location bar, but if I try typing into any text field, it just beeps at me.