Those of you that know me are aware that I’m an Irfanview zealot. I use it nearly every day. It’s one of my standard pieces of equipment.

Reformatting a computer? First install (after the OS): Firefox. Second install:Irfanview. Install for all users: Yes. Set file image only associations for all users: Yes. End of story.

I’ve been receiving one of Kim Komando’s daily e-mail newsletters for a few weeks now. In that time she’s mentioned Irfanview twice. It makes me giggle.

Here’s all of the Google-indexed Irfanview references on her site.

This is an exciting development.

OK, AEG and QuikTrip. If I go to the Sprint Center, I’m still expecting $0.89 coffee.

Whoa.

We all camped out at the annual Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade this morning…

Lame.

I’ve seen parades that were much better — in towns that are a small fraction of the size of Blue Springs.

Here are 10 things that I would change about the parade in Blue Springs:

1. I know we have a history of good gymnasts that train(ed) in Blue Springs, but come on, 5 mobs of obnoxious dance troupes? Why?
2. A middle school entry with no float and just a gang of kids? What’s up with that?
3. Where are the Shriners? Combines, mini-cars, go-carts, motorcycles — they’ve got to be there. Not just one group either.
4. The parade themes are lame — The Wild World of Sports?? I think I saw about two floats that even even made an attempt. I think some enforcement is required.
5. No horses? C’mon. Gotta have lots of animals.
6. More bicycles and skateboards. A freestyle bike act would be sweet.
7. I love the John Deere tractors and the Model-As and Model-Ts. Where were the big tractors? Where were the muscle cars? Where were the power-breaking and the glass-packs? And the jacked-up monster trucks?
8. Where were the pedal-powered contraptions — the crazy bikes and trikes?
9. There’s gotta be some tricked out choppers and motorcycles in this town. We got a Harley plant in Kansas City, for cryin’ out loud.
10. I think the Blue Springs Fall Fun Fest parade generally lacks forethought, imagination and creativity. It’s apparent to me in the parade entries and in the event planning.

I have time tracking worksheet that I use at work. It looks something like this:

Since I don’t work on Saturday or Sunday, I’d like to hide all columns that have a date that’s a Saturday or Sunday.

Here’s a little VB macro that will do the trick:

Sub header()

Dim eCol As Integer
Dim i As Integer

eCol = Cells(1, Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

For i = 1 To eCol

With Cells(1, i)

If IsDate(.Value) Then
If (Weekday(.Value) = vbSunday) Or _
(Weekday(.Value) = vbSaturday) Then
.EntireColumn.Hidden = True
End If
End If

End With

Next i

End Sub

h/t Rowan

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Google rolled out a few new Reader features yesterday.

Most important of which is the search feature:

Not only that, but they have ditched the “100+” item counts in favor of actual ones. Nice.