I read this as "underwear cameras." I think I need more coffee.

I read this as "underwear cameras."

Now there's a Flickr photostream I never want to see.

Excel question - if someone set up a workbook and spaced all their content by including an extra row between each item, is there a simple way to get rid of those empty rows other than deleting one by one?

Can you do a sort (forcing all the spaces to either the beginning or end)?

The cells with actual input don't follow any sortable pattern so I think I'd end up with a bigger mess than I have, unfortunately. Maybe I'll play with that a little and see if I can figure out a workaround.

Excel question - if someone set up a workbook and spaced all their content by including an extra row between each item, is there a simple way to get rid of those empty rows other than deleting one by one?

You can select multiple rows by holding down CTRL as you click the start of each blank row. Then you can delete them all at once.

Or, depending on what you're doing with the spreadsheet, you could cheat. Turn on Filter and filter out the blanks.

ETA: I also have a solution that involves IF statements, if you need it.

Or, create a new column with a formula like (assume this example is in row 3): =if(a3="","",row(a3)) That'll put the row number in all rows that aren't blank. Copy/Paste Value this column, then sort by it. That'll keep the order the same, but put all the blanks together.

John McGrath, an email acquaintence who posts on Dymaxion Blog and who is one of the good guys (and who really ought to be a Buffista) has had a disasterous data loss while working a project for his masters: [link]

I'm working on a large article as my final assignment for my Master's degree, which has to date involved at least 5 hours of interviews with some pretty interesting people.

Last night I was consolidating the files scattered across three different hard drives when the USB drive I was using decided to cack out on me. I have, it seems, lost all of the recordings of my interviews.

Gun in mouth ---> pull trigger.

Man, I fucking hate computers. Anyone know a good service that can recover data from a corrupted USB drive?

If anyone wants to help him out either by commenting on the post linked, or by posting here... Cause google shows lots of data recovery services out there, and I suspect someone on this board knows who the good ones are.

there's a good one in Canada that I know people have used and is successful.

it is not cheap.

I suspect at this point good beats cheap.