Do U Know TXT?

Do you know what ROTFL means? Or LOL?
Now you can find out.

What to translate your message into hip texting terms?
Now you can do that.

How?
Back in the fall of 2008 at BlogHer's Reach Out Tour when it came to Boston, I signed up to receive early notice when LG's DTXTR site was going live. I just received word that the site has JUST launched at http://www.lgdtxtr.com, and promotion of it will begin later today.

The site features include:

• DTXTR Translator: An interactive tool that allows you to translate your “plain English” text messages into shorter, more hip texts at the push of a button.
• DTXTR Glossary: An alphabetical, searchable list of over a thousand of the most popular text terms - including the ones submitted at the BlogHer Reach Out Tour.
• Do U Know TXT: An ever changing interactive quiz that challenges you to translate popular text phrases into text slang.
• Texting Tips: Everything you need to know about texting, managing a texting teen, and thinking smart about text plans.
• Sweepstakes: Monthly opportunities to win an LG enV2 or LG Lotus phone

Please check out the site. It may very well your solve your texting problems/questions.

MS Word to Web Help

Via Thane writing at Technology on a Shoestring, I hear about a couple of good ways to work with a Word document and convert it to a relatively clean HTML file for posting to the web. I have found some Word files to be more problems than others. Cut/paste into a text editor will strip away all the HTML but sometimes that is too much.

Read more here and then click through to see the article on the Wired "How to Wiki"

I just did a quick test with Textism and liked the results. This service is free for files less than 20KB.

What have you done to strip Word of all its non-essential code?