Archive for October, 2006

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

JOKE: Giving money to street lady

A woman was walking down the street when she was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked her for a couple of dollars for dinner.
The woman took out her bill fold, extracted ten dollars and asked, “If I give you this money, will you buy some wine with it instead of [...]

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Patent Bar

You do not have to get a law degree to take the patent bar and become a patent agent:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/examregist.htm
 
If you have a science degree or enough credits to get a science degree, then you can take the patent bar and file patents and do some other things.

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Quote: Our deepest fear

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. [...]

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

How to Tell the Sex of a Fly

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
“What are you doing?” She asked.
“Hunting Flies” He responded.
“Oh. Killing any?” She asked.
“Yep, 3 males, 2 Females,” he replied.

Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell them apart?”
 

He responded, [...]

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Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Joke: Water and Beer Education

Water and Beer Education
WATER…… It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water
each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of
Escherichia coli bacteria found in feces, in other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop!
However, [...]

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Monday, October 9th, 2006

Chairman, Chairwoman, or Chairperson

Ok, I know it is a minor, insignificant thing. But I could not help turning it into a research project. It appears that Patricia Dunn has been referred to as chairman, chairwoman, and chairperson. It seems that a lot of the mainstream press such as MSNBC and NYTimes use Chairwoman. But HP and CSPAN (title [...]

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Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Windows Vista, .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime and Windows SDK Downloads

Windows Vista, .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime and Windows SDK Downloads
 

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Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Windows Vista: Speech Recognition

Windows Vista has speech recognition software built in!!  It is pretty good.  It recognizes most of the things I say, and there are easy commands to navigate around and correct errors.  The amazing part is that it is just built into windows.  No need to buy additional software.  Also, it integrates very well with the [...]

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Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Summary Update

This past week has been extremely busy at work.  We have been working on multiple projects, each alone would require full time effort to do well at it.  Between all of them, the stress just continued to build.  I am so glad it is the weekend.
Though I have got to tell you that the weekends [...]

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Friday, October 6th, 2006

How to restrict a cells in Excel

Microsoft Office Assistance: Prevent invalid data entry in a worksheet
Explains how to limit an Excel cell to:

Items from a list
whole number within limits
decimal number within limits
date within a timeframe
time within a timeframe
text of a specified length
calculate the limit based upon another cell
use a formal to calculate what is allowed

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