1. Copy the hyperlinks into a column in Excel (column A).
2. Copy the hyperlinks into the adjacent column as well (column B).
3. Select column B and right-click on the selected cells. Choose "Edit Hyperlink"
4. In "Display" the value will be "multiple cells". Delete this text and save. Just the URLs will remain in column B.
5. Select column A and right-click on the selected cells. Choose "Remove Hyperlink". Just the display text will remain in column A.

Home Buying with Google Maps

We are looking to buy a home in London. Since we don't have a car, we are using the My Maps feature of Google Maps to visualize our geographic preferences. The circles (really complex polygons created using Scribble Maps, since Google Maps doesn't have a good way of creating circles) are roughly 9km in diameter. Once you create and position the circle in Scribble Maps, you can export it to a KML file and then import the KML to your My Map. The green circles are for city golf courses, the yellow one is for the train station and the purple one is for UWO. The red polygon is the riding of London West. We can add potential homes to the map to quickly see where they fall in relation to these preferences, and we have also mapped other useful things, such as grocery stores. Neat, eh?

Tip: when you use circles, the maps become too complex to display all at once. Use this tip about importing your map's KML file to create a map where the placemarks and polygons are shown all at once.

No, this isn't a tracking poll for the Liberal Party's popularity, it's a graph of my handicap factor for the past six months. I'm glad that I've been able to lower my factor by 46 per cent, from 14.4 to 7.8. My improvement is largely due to an improved full swing and overall better power game. My wedge game and my putting have also improved, but not as much.

As the end of this golf season approaches, I am quite pleased with my swing, which feels as simple as it ever has. With better wedge play and better chipping, I could be shooting just over par. My goal for next year is to bring my factor as far as possible below 5.0.

The rise of emerging markets and a host of new billionaires from third-world countries helped boost the ranks of the 10-figure club to a record 793, as 102 people managed to make the leap. The average net worth of the list's members is $3.3-billion (U.S.). Their combined wealth grew 18 per cent to $2.6-trillion, greater than the GDP of all but six countries in the world.

Diehard fans can only hope O'Brien includes some of his program's popular regulars, like the Masturbating Bear, the Dancing Gorillas, the Quake Guy or the Constipated Robot.

O'Brien noted that the dancing gorilla and quake guy have never been on his show. But instead of asking for a retraction, Conan made the Globe correct by introducing, for the first and last time, the dancing gorillas and quake guy.

It's in the newspaper; it must be true.