Thanks. I've got a couple of hours before I'm ready to name the files, but I may check it then.

As for Automator, I tried to do it but ridiculously it would only allow me to select one file to change at a time so it was actually slower than manual renaming. I probably was using it wrong, but it certainly didn't give me any clues on how to use it right.

Pete, I'll be home around 7:30pm ET. Can I call you then?

Tom, don't worry about it. By that time I will have to have sent the files, so I'll just grab one of the available programs.

Thank you for the offer though.

Gotta say, Name Mangler is not an enticing name.

I wonder if that's riffing off "File Mangler," which is what some Mac people called the "File Manager" of Windows 3.1....

Would you beieve it, I found a thread on the Apple forums that explained what to do in Automator.

Tried it, ran it, and it works. Thank grud, it's nice to be spared any more fussing on this tight deadline.

Thanks everyone.

I have a Philips DVP region-free DVD player that's decided it doesn't want to open anymore. It's sitting on my Netflix copy of American History X, perhaps sensing my reluctance to finish viewing it. I had thought that my next DVD player purchase should be Blu Ray, but I have a considerable portion of my collection in other region codes. Are there good Blu Ray/region-free players out there? Or should I consider the two functions separately? I think I've run out of digital inputs on my TV.

Does anyone have any experience with a complex or highly customised Sharepoint solution?

Designing, administrating or cursing? Because I've got two of the three.

Does your implementation have any custom code on it? How is content being presented/retrieved?

I'm trying to work out if Sharepoint is usable in a sort-of decoupled architecture with custom code to present content instead of using the portlets and web parts that come in the box.

Google Wave update:

I got a few more invite slots, and added Jensen, Vortex, Theodosia, and Stephanie to the invite list. (Jess, I skipped over you because you're already in there, you sneaky thing.) As usual, they don't send out invites right away; the last batch took a week or so to go out. If you're already in and you get an invite, I'm pretty sure you can pass it along to someone else.

(And if you're already waving, feel free to add me -- sabreuse at googlewave dot com. My contact list is depressingly coworker-heavy atm.)