Archive for the ‘Yada’ Category

Star Trek Meets Monty Python

Star Trek Meets Monty Python Wow, someone definitely had a LOT of time on their hands! Thanks for the effort though. It was certainly enjoyable Technorati Tags: monty python, star trek, mashup

July 31, 2008 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Yada

Remember TRBL

This post (like many I write) is mainly for myself. When using CSS padding or margin, I generally will write margin-top, margin-bottom, margin-left, etc. I know there is easier syntax where I can specify all for with one line such as margin: 0 10px 88px 10px; The problem is, I can never remember which one [...]

June 19, 2008 · Dustin · One Comment
Posted in: Yada

PHP to Excel

I was tasked with exporting report to Microsoft Excel files. There are a number of ways to do this. One of the easiest I have found it to create a tab delimited file and give it an .xls extension. You can also create a table using html and give it an .xls extension for similar [...]

November 12, 2007 · Dustin · 4 Comments
Posted in: Yada

Blog Publishing In Word?!

So I just upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007. I saw this feature to publish a document to a blog. You know me, I just had to try… So let’s see how well it performs: Lists One Two Three Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3 Big Colorful Text And an image:

June 26, 2007 · Dustin · One Comment
Posted in: Yada

Syncing Google Calendar with Outlook/PDA

I always thought it would be nice to sync Outlook with the Google Calendar. I found out today that it is now possible thanks to OGG Sync. Check it out and give it a try. There is not very much documentation, but be sure to read what documentation they do have on installing it so [...]

May 30, 2007 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Yada

Getting Things Done

I finally finished reading Getting Things Done. Well, to be honest I can’t say I finished “reading” it. I read about 2/3 of the book then listened to the rest of it on an audio book I would give the book 4 out of 5 stars. It seems to be written mainly for business people [...]

January 29, 2007 · Dustin · Comments Closed
Posted in: Yada

Breaking the Law… Parking?

I’ve been highly entertained by Connor’s parking woes. It brings back semi-sweet memories of my time at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). Throughout my long career at SLCC I tried to get away with buying a parking pass as much as possible. My first two years I succeeded without getting a ticket. I think this [...]

January 26, 2007 · Dustin · 3 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Yada

Boise Idaho

Growing up, I often heard my mom talk about Boise Idaho. I know that she lived there for some period of here life, but I’m not exactly sure when. I’ve actually been there once, briefly. My friend got married there and I was his best man. I really didn’t see much of the city. I [...]

January 25, 2007 · Dustin · 4 Comments
Posted in: Napoleon Dynamite, Yada

Collecting Old Wooden Bats!

I’m trying to collect lots and lots of old wooden bats to decorate my sons room. This is just a shout out to please let me know if you have any old wooden bats sitting in your garage that you are willing to donate. I can pay for shipping them. Thank you much! This is [...]

January 25, 2007 · Dustin · 3 Comments
Posted in: Yada

Free Business Cards

Have you ever been out to lunch and saw the little canister full of business cards where they draw out a card and give the customer a free lunch? Have you ever run across and old friend and tried to exchange contact information in a busy location – or with your kids pulling on your [...]

January 22, 2007 · Dustin · 3 Comments
Posted in: Yada