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The kindness of strangers has saved me thousands of hours when I have found solutions for nitty-gritty problems somewhere on the web. Here's my tiny attempt to return the favour.

Drupal icon  Installing TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor on Drupal

Installation of TinyMCE on Drupal 

Excel icon  Excel - Adding shortcut Menu items

How to set up shortcuts to macros in Excel; especially to open favourite files 

Web icon  Picasa: Customise Templates

Amend templates for Google Picasa to make web photo galleries 

Access icon  SQL, delimiters for field names which have spaces

How to identify a field name if it contains spaces 

Access icon  SQL, update a column with values from another table

How to do UPDATE tbl_x SELECT FROM tbl_y 

Drupal icon  Drupal Image Upload

A wrinkle if you have customised a Drupal template, and want to use TinyMCE Image upload 

Drupal icon  Drupal devel.module

If devel.module crashed your Drupal site, this may help you recover 

Access icon  SQL Union Queries

How to use a UNION query, how to find rows with X-but-not-Y 

Windows icon  Alt-Tab

Shift Alt Tab 

PHP icon  Using CURL and PHP

Use of CURL and PHP in web site testing 

PHP icon  PHP String Replace

String replace in PHP 

Windows icon  Sorting Out a Virus

Trying to remove a virus manually, and could not delete an infected file. 

Drupal icon  TinyMCE and IMCE Browse button

It was a struggle getting the IMCE file browse button visible in the TinyMCE dialog. Here's what worked for me.