When is the best time to book the cheapest flight? There are websites that try to predict the fares (http://farecast.com). Various travel writers have come up with various lead times for the best deal, frequently either several months or just a month out.
This weekend is DrupalCamp Colorado 2009.
I use Drupal for several websites I have built.
Daughter Amanda and I went to a Denver Drupal Users Group meeting 18 months ago. Since there were several Drupal “newbies” the group kept it basic. I understood about half of what they talked about. We decided this group was way too technical for my level of use.
Priceline (http://priceline.com) advertises itself as the place to get cheap flights. I don’t know about you, but my travel, mostly business, isn’t flexible enough that I can leave sometime between 5 am and midnight. You’d have to plan on a day to get to your destination and a day to get back, a poor use of your time.
Microsoft’s Excel 2007 added an amazing new command not present in previous versions, Remove Duplicate Data (its just right of center on the Data ribbon).
Removing duplicate data before 2007 involved either Visual Basic programming or a manual comparison after sorting the data. Both solutions are time consuming (and error prone in the case of manual comparison).
Remove Duplicate Data can search unsorted tables with thousands of rows in less than a second, pulling any duplicates that match in every column, or in a user defined group of columns.
When I was in high school, Dad suggested I take a typing class. The reward for the class was a manual typewriter, what we used in first year typing. Then I decided that a second year of “college prep typing” wouldn’t hurt and of course for that class we switched to electric typewriters. So it cost Dad an electric at the end of that year.
I got an ASUS eeePC 900A for $150 and have been playing with it.
With only a 4 GB SSD "hard drive" it doesn't have a large capacity.
I can see why so many have been returned and show up now as refurbished units, after about half the updates that were downloaded automatically when I booted the machine, it was out of disk space so the rest of the updates wouldn't install (and the error message wasn't clear why, just it wouldn't work).
I reformatted the SSD and installed an eeePC Ubuntu configuration with Open Office 3.1 and have about 900MB left.
Even organized, with 10,000+ files you are going to forget where you might have stored that file with Aunt Sally’s favorite cookie recipe.
That’s where a local search program comes in handy.
There are two free ones, Google Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com/) and Microsoft Desktop Search (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/defaul...).
I got a DXG 581V in February, just in time for a trip to Bangkok!
It is amazing. 1080p, and so tiny…
DXG 581V
Just as I keep my 10,000+ files organized with a structured folder system, I do the same for the emails I keep.
I’ve got a folder for each major client, one for my company, one labeled Family, and one labeled Gregg for personal emails.
I don’t have as many email folders as I would folders for files because I’ve found it handy to be able to see all my email folders at one time in Outlook. It makes filing emails in my inbox easier since I can drag any email to its folder without scrolling through the list.
I saw a Google Blog post about their new toolbar labs.
Since I love the Google Toolbar in Firefox and less frequently Internet Explorer, I clicked on the link while in Firefox. I got an interesting message so I opened Google Chrome and tried the same URL, that’s when I got this:
