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This week’s GGB Sarah Blow is from the UK and is the actual founder of Girl Geek Dinners! Be sure to watch Sarah’s video on how to start a Girl Geek Dinner.

Name: Sarah Blow
Screen Names: Sarah Blow or GirlyGeekdom
Personal Blogs:
http://sarahblow.com
http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com
http://girlgeekdinners.com 
http://londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk/
Social Networks: LinkedIn, Facebook (private), Twitter, Viddler. Current Employment:
Software Engineer & Founder of Girl Geek Dinners
Location/country: UK

What is your reason/motivation for blogging?

I have a number of very different blogs and each have different reasons for their existence.  My primary blog is my personal one, which is where I put up things that I find interesting and fun that I want to share with people.  Then I have the GirlyGeekdom blog which is a group one.  This is focused on all things girly and geeky.  The others are directly related to the Girl Geek Dinners and are the simplest and most efficient way to manage and distribute information to the Girl Geek networks.

Overall my reasons for blogging are to distribute information and knowledge, to share experience and to influence change.

So I need inspiration. I name all the Ps and servers in this place.

We have servers

• MAGE - SBS2003
• APPRENTICE - Server2003
• WAITER - Server2008
• WONDERLAND – Windows Home Server
• PORTCULLIS – Linux Server

Desktops

• CHEETAH (my current machine)
• FLAMENCO
• DRAGON (died and gone to parts bin – to be replaced with MOONBEAM)
• SNAKE
• JADESTAR
• DOLPHN
• BARBIE

Media Center PC

• LIBRARY

Laptops

• SERENITY
• MUSHROOM

The only unimaginative names are the 4 virtual machines we use for remote access and development.

So I need a new name for the PC that is to replace CHEETAH.

My thinking so far includes:

• ZELENKA – baroque musician and composer, and also technician in Stargate Atlantis
• ASSASSIN
• TECHMEISTER
• CYBERNETIC

Please vote in the poll and help me choose!

I am upgrading my PC.

The old one is for sale.

Serious offers from $3000 up will be entertained. Email me tim at spyjournal dot biz or contact me using contact form.

Here are the specs. Note this machine has been running almost without stopping for 22 months.

• CPU - Intel S775 Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core CPU
• Mother board - BFG 680iSLI
• 4Gb of Corsair DDR2 RAM
• Antec 900 - has 3 120mm fans - 2 at front in front of drive bays and 1 at rear, as well as a massive 200mm fan in the top sucking out. the 120mm fans are all illuminated with case power light.
• Video card - BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB PCIe
• Two  Western Digital 10,000 RPM 74Gb Raptor HDD
• Two Western Digital 500Gb HDD
• One Seagate 500GB HDD
• LG DVD Drive
• All in one Card Reader
• Additional Cooling - CPU Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Heatsink
• Power supply - Tagan 1100 watt
• Monitors - 2x 22" Viewsonic VX2235WM widescreens
• Logitech G15 Keyboard
• Logitech G7 Mouse

Note the CPU in this is worth $1829 new on its own.

This week we will look at some text functions. FIND and SEARCH are essentially the same function with only minor differences.

These functions both allow you to search through a text string (think sentence or word or phrase) in a cell and return the number of the starting character. So when cell A1 has The quick brown fox, =FIND(“fox”,A1) would return 17.

The following screenshots indicate the function arguments and explain the functions syntax.