Wednesday, November 26, 2008
National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
It may sound icky to you, but I am a sucker for meatloaf. Last week, friends and I went to a new restaurant. I saw the special was meatloaf and closed my menu. When the server arrived my friend looked at me and said, “he will have the meatloaf.” End of story!
Imagine my surprise to find out there is a National Meatloaf Day. OK, it was declared by a website and not the president; but what the heck.
This morning, I found the perfect meatloaf to serve for Thanksgiving. It had cranberries in it.
Imagine my surprise to find out there is a National Meatloaf Day. OK, it was declared by a website and not the president; but what the heck.
This morning, I found the perfect meatloaf to serve for Thanksgiving. It had cranberries in it.
Labels: cranberry, food, meatloaf, Thanksgiving
Thursday, October 30, 2008
My Excel Site
If you have been watching the transformation of my http://xl.barasch.com site for a while, you may have seen the new URL show up; http://www.AlansOfficeSpace.com.
I don’t just do Excel anymore. I expanded to Access VBA and SQL solutions. Some of the early solutions look fairly simplistic to me now but will have to wait until I have time for big time editing.
Election Time
I have been watching the election run-up on http://www.electoral-vote.com/ and now I am anxious for it all to be over. I was thinking last night that I would like to start my own party and call it “None-of-the-Above.”
Check back after November 4th.
Check back after November 4th.
Labels: election, fall, mccain, obama
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Smartphones
Just got my Cingular 3125 and starting to get the hang of it all. Really like how it syncs with Outlook. Now to get Outlook and Thunderbird to sync as well.
Checked out the Windows Mobile website … think I want to try to write some applications for hand-helds.
Checked out the Windows Mobile website … think I want to try to write some applications for hand-helds.
Labels: att, cellular, smart phone
Friday, July 21, 2006
Warning to Commenters
You may think it is cute to leave comments on my blogs that are essentially an advertisement. I will not give you advertising space. When I find ads or offensive comments, they are immediately removed.
FavIcon from Pics
How often do you find a site that is offering a service that you say, “Wow! Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?”.
I built a FAVICON a couple years ago but realized lately that I had the syntax for displaying it all wrong. I did a Google for favicon and found FavIcon from Pics.
What is so cool is that I can create a picture (simpler is better) in my favorite graphics application and upload to them for an immediate conversion. Now when you go to my main site, your browser displays my stylized A in the address and if you save the Favorite, in the list.
I built a FAVICON a couple years ago but realized lately that I had the syntax for displaying it all wrong. I did a Google for favicon and found FavIcon from Pics.
What is so cool is that I can create a picture (simpler is better) in my favorite graphics application and upload to them for an immediate conversion. Now when you go to my main site, your browser displays my stylized A in the address and if you save the Favorite, in the list.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
National Atlas
My whole life I have been fascinated by maps. I think it started when my parents gave me a globe and atlas while I was still in kindergarten. The National Atlas has such things as GIS layers of territorial acquisitions, election results, places, nighttime lights, etc..
Now if you are a total map freak (like me!), you will love a list of links to Anonometric maps. I'm still looking for a wall map of St. Louis that I like.
Now if you are a total map freak (like me!), you will love a list of links to Anonometric maps. I'm still looking for a wall map of St. Louis that I like.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog
Were you like me? You got the email that you were anxiously awaiting to find out that you had been accepted as a ßeta tester for Office 2007 yesterday. Like Jensen here, Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog; I immediately began downloading the various files.
Between Office, Outlook and Project (all applications that I support), the download was over 700 MEG.
Tonight I will install and surely will have a report for you.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Foreign Exchange Rates/Currencies, Key Cross Rates and Currency Converter - MarketWatch
I have often been fascinated by the fluctuations in Foreign Exchange. I am not so bold as to trade in currency like some friends do but found this web page interesting: Market Overview: Foreign Exchange Rates/Currencies, Key Cross Rates and Currency Converter - MarketWatch. It is cool how it constantly updates.
