I am currently doing some work for the Church of England, moving and improving the repository of liturgy to their new website. There are a lot of files involved so using shortcuts for sorting out data and lists is vital. Removing unneeded items from a list Today I was working with an export of a…Continue reading Removing some text items e.g. files with certain extension, from a list in Libreoffice using COUNTIF
Change a list with colons to list with new lines in linux (fedora)
The other day I needed to remove double line breaks from a list to quickly put it in a spread sheet. Similarly, today I needed to change a list like: Heading Item; Item; Item; Into Heading Item Item Item In order to put it into a spreadsheet. Here is what I did: I pasted the…Continue reading Change a list with colons to list with new lines in linux (fedora)
Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)
While copy-pasting an index from a website to a spreadsheet (google sheet) recently, I found several annoying points of formatting: Each item was an html link, which could not be easily removed in bulk The items were “double spaced” using two new lines after each item. I found the easiest way to remove this formatting…Continue reading Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)
List cleaning in Mautic
Note: this blog will, I hope, be out of date soon! There are several issues relating to this post which I hope Mautic can resolve soon which will make this process much easier. List cleaning to become (even) more important The ECommerceFuel mid December podcast featured Xiaohui, founder of the email deliverability firm essenceofemail.com. He…Continue reading List cleaning in Mautic
Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar
There are lots of benefits to contributors uploading a profile picture (also known as an Avatar) to your WordPress site: it makes it clearer who is writing each blog, it helps the writer feel part of your site, it makes your site more personable and friendly which helps your readers to engage more. WordPress, by…Continue reading Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar
Android share suggesting inappropriate contacts
This issue appears to be closed/resolved on the android bug tracker but may still exist on your phone if you have not updated or if no update is available. The Android share menu has been a great feature for me, for example, when I am viewing a cute pick of my cat, I can click…Continue reading Android share suggesting inappropriate contacts
Help I forgot to make my user an administrator when installing fedora
When installing fedora I almost always forget to tick the “make user an administrator” box. Then when I want to install some software or update later I get a rather morose ticking off from my terminal… “Username is not in sudoers file. This incident will be reported”. Just what every girl wants to hear… one…Continue reading Help I forgot to make my user an administrator when installing fedora
How to open gparted in fedora 25 (wayland): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Today’s task list involved installing Fedora 25 (yay!) on my new computer and reformatting some hard drives to use as backup disks. The install was fine however I couldn’t seem to get gparted started (poet / know it). Gparted is the tool I find most useful for dealing with hard drives, partitions etc, but apparently…Continue reading How to open gparted in fedora 25 (wayland): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
How to randomly select data from a column in libreoffice
This is a up-to-date variation of some docs I found useful, the original was made by johnSUN. My problem Today I was researching for a possible change in the phpList UI: right now the behaviour of the menu item “Send a campaign” depends on if you have draft campaigns or not. If you have no…Continue reading How to randomly select data from a column in libreoffice
A meditation on emigration and asylum seekers: Frances Bruno Catalano Statue and Ralph McTell song
“And above all the roar of the town was the blue sky, I could hear the birds singing for the joy of the day And there was no support from the city forthcoming, No sympathy numbing your going away”. — Ralph McTell