Does anyone know why my TiVo now speaks Spanish to me? I can't make it not give the SAP for Desperate Housewives. I've made sure that my TV can get just the stereo output, and that the TiVo audio settingis on stereo. There don't seem to be any cable box settings that control it (I looked because the TiVo settings suggested it).

This is slightly irritating.

ita, had you ever been able to watch AVI files on your Tivo? After I switched out the hard drive, I tried this feature again, and now I can watch converted AVI files on the Tivo without problems. I'm not sure if it is the new hard drive that has made the difference or if I am doing something differently, but the 2-3 files I've transferred so far work just fine.

gmail:

they added an autosave command for email you compose. I noticed it yesterday or before and thought I screwed up. I didn't realize it was a "feature."

Google office fun:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. took a big step toward challenging Microsoft Corp.'s dominance in computer word-processing and spreadsheets with the announcement Tuesday that it would distribute Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc.

The move will let Google create or offer programs that could take on Microsoft Corp.'s industry-leading Office suite.

Under the deal, Google will distribute Java along with the search company's toolbar application, the two companies announced.

The deal, whose terms were not disclosed, would make it easier for PC users to run applications based on the Java programming language. That includes the free productivity suite OpenOffice, a challenger to Office, a major cash cow for Microsoft.

Huh. I forgot there was a Java version of OpenOffice.

The toolbar currently works only on computers running Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Firefox browser.

Does the toolbar work on Mac or Linux?

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I want one of these phones NOW. Nevermind that they don't exist. Yet.

Wow. I would totally break down and get a cell phone if that existed.

Got a problem.

If you have an html document that's just a table, you can import it into Excel and get a spreadsheet. Of course, for each cell in the table you get a cell in Excel. But if there's a line break (<br> tag) within a cell, it screws up when you open the html document in Excel - it's like Excel treats the line break as a cell delimiter.

What we're doing is taking the result of an Access query and importing it into Excel. We first save from Access to an HTML document, because if you go straight from Access to Excel there's a 255 character limit for each cell.

So, is there some other character we can insert into the html (doesn't matter if it does not produce a line break in html) that will produce a line break when opened in Excel?

We're using Excel 2002 SP2.

eta: Alternatly, will Excell correctly deal with carriage returns in a delimited text file? (Assuming some other delimiter besides carriage return.)

So, is there some other character we can insert into the html (doesn't matter if it does not produce a line break in html) that will produce a line break when opened in Excel?

Not even remotely sure this will work, but can't you do a find/replace on your HTML doc to replace all instances of t br with a ^M?

(ETA: Not entirely sure Excel will read a ^M as a carriage return, but I think it might)

Lemme try....

Jessica,

that's a hot phone. Man.