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Translating 's/ */ /g' into T-SQL?

Fixing whitespace: Can someone translate 's/ */ /g' into T-SQL?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:06 PM on July 30, 2008 (2 comments)

Operating an old teasmade?

Can anyone tell me how to operate a "Goblin Compact Teasmade 882"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 10:49 PM on April 27, 2008 (1 comment)

Custom client-side CSS to change background colours.

CSS, greasemonkey, sunglasses? Is there a way to stop white web pages hurting my eyes (firefox, osx).
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 3:38 PM on January 15, 2008 (14 comments)

How big a bang am I allowed to make without actually invading anyone?

What's the largest explosion I can make, legally, without any particular kind of license, and what would I use to make it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 8:36 PM on December 20, 2007 (14 comments)

What's so bad about cheese?

What's so bad about cheese?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:25 PM on December 4, 2007 (16 comments)

Cheap booze!

When happy hour's over, and it's time to cruise back to trash someone's loungeroom, continue the tight-arse tradition with Boozle!
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 4:46 PM on September 18, 2007 (8 comments)

vconvert.net hates my macbook

vconvert.net hates my macbook. Is it just me?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:53 PM on August 29, 2007 (2 comments)

For Sale by Mental Patient

They put it in my mouth. I didn't swallow. The savings I pass along to YOU!!! Some silliness which is keeping me sane on this slow Friday arvo...
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 10:08 PM on August 23, 2007 (22 comments)

Who sets the TV agenda?

Do propaganda shows like 'The Unit' and 'Threat Matrix' (and, I presume, '24', though I've not watched it) get US gov't funding, or are they just a private attempt to cash in on war-on-terra panic?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:23 AM on July 18, 2007 (28 comments)

AskMe 'really useful'

Something called www.ask.metafilter.com has made the Independent's list of 101 really useful websites. Just so you know.
posted to MetaTalk by pompomtom at 6:29 PM on June 12, 2007 (33 comments)

Interference robustness???

OSX wifi: Why would I not use 'Interference Robustness'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 6:52 PM on May 31, 2007 (5 comments)

Fullscreen youtube to the telly.

Did youtube change its 'fullscreen' option recently?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 6:46 AM on May 22, 2007 (8 comments)

Ah, the good ol' days - nothing to worry about but a lingering death from radiation poisoning

Nuke related songs of the 80s and 90s.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 11:58 PM on April 3, 2007 (66 comments)

Help me control the stereo with a phone.

What's the cheapest mobile phone available in Australia which speaks 802.11b or 802.11g?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:54 PM on February 22, 2007 (15 comments)

PATA or SATA for an enclosed drive?

If I'm buying a hard disk which will be put into an external enclosure (most likely a 320Gb Seagate), connected via USB2 (not eSATA), is there ANY practical difference (apart from the $5-10 price difference) between picking PATA or SATA?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 7:19 PM on October 17, 2006 (12 comments)

So it's not about baseball after all?

Behold, the Terranaut. No, it's not another bloody truck, but rather a land vehicle for pilots not normally comfortable with such terrain. I, for one, welcome our...
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 8:58 PM on September 27, 2006 (12 comments)

Should I just save it here, or what?

A silly and trivial - but specific - question about how browsers work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 4:22 AM on August 20, 2006 (8 comments)

Worth his weight in VB

Advance Australia Fair, written by a Scotsman and performed at the inauguration of the Commonwealth, has never been a hugely popular anthem. The ARU have been boosting Waltzing Matilda (a paean to a thief who got caught, which was considered as an anthem in the 70s but rejected) as a national song for Rugby internationals, while Men At Work's backpacker anthem Land Down Under can be heard almost constantly in bars from Ko Pha Ngan to Earl's Court, and the Chisels' song Khe Sahn gets a better pagerank than the battle it is named for.

But I think Adam Hills may have returned the anthem to relevance with this rendition.
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom at 9:37 PM on August 17, 2006 (34 comments)

MuFi: The requested URL /login/ was not found on...

MuFi: The requested URL /login/ was not found on this server.
posted to MetaTalk by pompomtom at 5:43 PM on July 3, 2006 (2 comments)

Is there a word for the study of humour?

Is there a word for the study of humour?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 11:34 PM on July 2, 2006 (11 comments)

Screen grab from the back end?

Can I get a screenshot of the GUI desktop from an ssh login?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 8:59 PM on June 22, 2006 (5 comments)

oops....

So I've just deleted a bunch of files which were held on an Ubuntu server, from my XP laptop, via a Samba share. Is there any way to retrieve them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 3:00 AM on May 27, 2006 (3 comments)

I might think your religion is a bunch of crap (in...

I might think your religion is a bunch of crap (in fact, I probably do) but isn't it a touch rude to be saying so in AskMe?
posted to MetaTalk by pompomtom at 5:03 AM on April 23, 2006 (370 comments)

"Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my sugar pie..."

So there's this old cartoon.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 2:51 AM on January 28, 2006 (13 comments)

I'm sure that part shouldn't be on the floor

I broke my computer, but it didn't break...
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 1:08 AM on November 4, 2005 (8 comments)

At what temperature does vodka freeze?

ChillFilter: At what temperature does vodka freeze?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 3:55 PM on January 17, 2005 (22 comments)

name an art house movie about two gay HIV positive blokes

YetAnotherHalf-RememberedMovieFilter. So I saw this film, probably in 1992. It was an American, art-house dealie, with two gay HIV positive blokes, who meet, hook up, and drive across the US. [You'll never guess where I put the more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by pompomtom at 3:36 PM on December 30, 2004 (13 comments)