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17 Apr 09

Daily Kos: Why yesterday's protests were stupid

Now's as good a time as any to take a break from mocking the teabaggers in favor of a more serious look at what they accomplished yesterday.

I've never made a secret for my distaste of most street protests, and of groups like Code Pink that think they are accomplishing anything with their street theater. But when I set out to write Taking on the System, my book on effective organizing in the 21st century, I had to dig deep to figure out why I didn't like them, and how to differentiate the usual ineffective ANSWER-organized protests with those that actually had a positive effect (e.g. the Jena Six and pro-immigration protests of a few years ago).

I finally determined that for a protest to be effective it needed to:

be novel and/or unexpected
have a sympathetic, singular, and media-friendly message
provide great visuals
tap into a hot-button and timely issue.

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13 Apr 09

Coder's Talk: VBScript to Replace Underscores in Filename with Spaces for All Files in a Folder

Script to rename all files in a directory... to e.g. replace underscores with spaces... I altered to do the reverse.

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  • '========================================================
    ' VBScript to replace underscore in file name with space
    ' for each files in a folder
    ' Written by ApOgEE of http://coderstalk.blogspot.com
    '========================================================
    Dim sName
    Dim fso
    Dim fol

    ' create the filesystem object
    Set fso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

    ' get current folder
    Set fol = fso.GetFolder(".")

    ' go thru each files in the folder
    For Each fil In fol.Files
    ' check if the file name contains underscore
    If InStr(1, fil.Name, "_") <> 0 Then
    ' replace underscore with space
    sName = Replace(fil.Name, "_", " ")
    ' rename the file
    fil.Name = sName
    End If
    Next

    ' echo the job is completed
    WScript.Echo "Completed!"
23 Sep 07

Cityfeet Listing Detail - Big East Monroeville Commercial

Three story building with a basement. Great potential for retail or office use. Priced below replacement cost. Approximately 17,000 sq.
. PROPERTY WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 5 DOORS AWAY FROM WHERE WESTMORELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE WILL OPEN IN THE FALL OF 2008.

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02 Feb 06

Standpoint / What do you believe?

Competition for rate.strangerstudios.com

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