Spy Journal 3.0 Filtering the web for you

Time to close some tabs. Here are all the good things found since the last round up.

I completely redesigned the front end of www.rasita.biz using panels and views. What do you think? Judith is now selling reptiles as well as her cooking eCourses.

Sarah Perez posted this on live mesh wallpapers. We got them!

Are you Mesh-obsessed? Well now you can show off your devotion to the new service by displaying the Mesh logo on your computer’s desktop. You can grab the zip file for yourself from here.

Sarah also has a Q&A session on Microsoft Office Web Applications.

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.