Found a handy piece of Software (Available Here) which allows you to quickly turn your monitors off using a keyboard shortcut. The default is Shift-F1. But can be changed using the task manager (seen below).

PushMonitOff v1.0

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In the following example, I wanted to have a custom Renderer when I expanded a row in the AdvancedDataGrid. I need to do it in Actionscript, so here is what I did.

private function ExpandClick (e:AdvancedDataGridEvent) : void {

            trace(e);

            var children:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{Name:"Greg",Status:"O",Top:e.item}]);

            e.item.children =  children;            

            var renderer:AdvancedDataGridRendererProvider = new AdvancedDataGridRendererProvider();

            renderer.dataField = "Name";

            renderer.renderer = new ClassFactory(View.MagicRenderer);

            renderer.columnSpan = 0;

            renderer.columnIndex = 0;

            var rp:Array = new Array();

            rp.push(renderer);

            trace(tickets.selectedItem);

            tickets.rendererProviders = rp;            

            tickets.expandItem(e.item,true,true,false,null);    

        }

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This came up as I was generating and HTML template in Flex. I wanted a new Table Row foreach New Line of a textArea.text

You’ll see that I am replaceing the \r (carriage returns) with HTML table rows and cells. If you are here you are probably  primarily interested in something simple like

private function otherTasks ( text : TextArea ) : String {
//replace "</td></tr><tr><td>” with whatever you want
	var newString:String = text.text.replace(/[\r\n]/g, "</td></tr><tr><td>");
}

private function otherTasks ( text : TextArea ) : String {
	var temp:String = "<tr><td>";
	temp+= text.text.replace(/[\r\n]/g, "</td></tr><tr><td>");
	var str:String = "";
	str+= "<P><table class=\"sample\" width=\"800\"><thead><tr height=13.75>";
	str+="<th>OTHER TASKS NOT IN MAGIC</th>";
	str += "</tr></thead><tbody>";
	str+= temp;
	str+="</tbody></table>";
	return str;
}

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All, I just recieved an email which circulated from a senior VP at my company. Here is the exact email.

DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING!

Jury Duty Scam

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

Check it out here: <http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm>

And here:  <http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp><http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp>

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Smoked Pepper Halibut

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Ingredients

• 1-1/2  pounds fresh or frozen halibut, swordfish, or shark steaks, cut 1 inch thick
• 2  canned chipotle chile peppers in adobo sauce
• 2  tablespoons adobo sauce
• 1  medium red sweet pepper, cut up
• 2  tablespoons lime juice
• 1  teaspoon dried oregano, crushed
• 2  cloves garlic, halved
• 1/4  teaspoon salt

Directions

Thaw fish, if frozen. Rinse fish; pat dry with paper towels. If necessary, cut fish into 4 serving-size pieces. For marinade, in a blender container combine chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, sweet pepper, lime juice, oregano, and garlic. Cover and blend until pureed. Transfer half of the marinade to a shallow dish; set aside remaining marinade.

Add fish steaks to dish, spooning some of the marinade over fish. Cover and marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Drain fish, discarding marinade. Sprinkle fish with salt. Grill fish on the greased rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 8 to 12 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork, turning once halfway through grilling. Heat reserved marinade and serve as sauce with fish. Makes 4 servings.

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#!c:\\perl\\bin
#use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use Net::Whois::IP qw(whoisip_query);
use chilkat;
our $count = 0;
my %Whitelist =
(
'67.228.182.163' => 'Xoopit',
'ip.ip.ip.ip' => 'Work'
<code>);

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Thanks for visiting my Blog. I’m Greg Jessup and I guess you can describe me as a techie. I currently work in the financial industry but my heart has always been with using technology to make my life better.

This blog is primarily for people like my mom, who just don’t know what is out there, and how it can help them. Occassionally I will have some more technical thingslike how to do something in Perl or in SQL Reporting Services, but it will usually contain tutorials/how-to’s and I bet you didn’t know you could do this kind of stuff.

I invite everyone to read and comment and send me questions to read or write about.

Happy reading!

Greg

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