Computing

Lurking through Soledad en Masa’s bloggy-dog, I ran into a meme that Tirado is trying get going around the bloggosphere-net-com.  The rules seem simple enough.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

“The Error Checking tab contains other checkboxes that prevent Excel from marking cells that exhibit other characteristics”

Frye, Curtis. Excel Annoyances. Sebastapol: O’Reilly Media, 2005.

Unfortunately, my book was far from interesting.  I hope some of you remember this though.  If you find yourself wanting to prevent Excel from marking cells that exhibit other characteristics, use the checkboxes in the error checking tab.  (I wonder how many will unknowingly be sent to this blog for Excel advice)

I hate it when a website I like goes down. Especially when it wasn’t as much for amusement as it was for information. While del.icio.us can help you keep track of all your links from any computer, it doesn’t help much for the site’s information. Fortunately, we now have Google Notebooks. (more…)

I’ve always liked Garfield. From the age of 10 I got it. Garfield is lazy and doesn’t care.  That is a wholly likable character.   Yet following this digg link, I’ve fallen into a whole world of variations and oddities from this classic strip. (more…)

Ok, so maybe I forgot to pay for the domain and webspace. It seems completely fair to block my site and remove my ability to add updates. But instead of replacing with a “site down” or even “webpage for sale” information page, they replaced it with something that really got me thinking. Screencap after the jump (more…)

I have allot of music. Not just allot of music, but “allot” of music. The problem is that I have so much, that digging through it has become tedious, not to mention there’s great albums that I haven’t heard in a while. The problem is I can spend a considerable amount of time just LOOKing for something to listen to. (more…)

Those of you who aren’t constant Flickr people, might not know about Flickr’s map service. This service let’s you place your photos on a global map and set locations to your photos. I’ve been doing this since I first started Flickr, and all of my photos are “Geotagged”. Here’s a couple of interesting things I’ve found about geotagging (more…)

Every month, this site gathers information about who is visiting. Interestingly, it also tells us what people typed in to find edraid. So for example, if someone searched for the word “Awesome” and found a linkto Edraid, then the site tells us that edraid was found once through the word “Awesome”. Unfortunately, edraid still doesn’t rank highly when searching for “Awesome” on google. Now, instead of following your curiosity and typing “Awesome” into google, why don’t we take a look at what words google DOES associate with edraid.
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