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How to Manually Uninstall a Broken Silverlight

I couldn’t run the latest Silverlight because an older beta version was installed. I kept getting an error during the install process that vaguely suggested removing the old version. So I went to Add/Remove Programs and I got an error when trying to remove it. After some research I found some instructions on how to […]

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Taking Shortcuts with Internal Style Sheets

As simple as it is, I can never remember the syntax for defining a block of css within html. It is of course better practice to put your css in a seperate file and reference it. However, here is sample snippet to define internal style(s): PLAIN TEXT HTML: "text/css" body {color: blue} a {color: blue; […]

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How to Sleep, Pause, Wait, or Stop your Python Code

Here is the function to pause or stop your code in Python for a variable amount of time: PLAIN TEXT PYTHON: span style="color: #808080; font-style: italic;">#will sleep for 5 seconds #will sleep for half a second #will sleep for a tenth of a second This is useful if you are making numerous calls to web […]

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