I've Changed

I was looking at my blog after a long period of absence and realized I have changed. My portrait should be lot different.

For the past few months, I have been going to WeightWatchers and am down almost 50 pounds. The first place you see my change is in my face.

Food - Summer - Food

Last year, I was at a job fair “meet and greet,” and found this lady who knew some of my friends. We got to talking and I found she was a freelance food columnist.

One thing led to another and I was interviewed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch one morning a month ago. The article appeared this morning.

Scare-Ware

My friend called me the other day with a computer problem. Seems his 2 month old laptop suddenly had 46 viruses that Kaspersky could not find.

Digging around on the web, I find that the hardware manufacturer probably put this thing on when it was built. All so somebody panics and pays for junk they don’t need or want.

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.

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 4^th.

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.

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.