I’m a nerd.

I am publishing — if you want to call it that — an import file for Outlook with the entire 2009-2010 regular season for the Chicago Blackhawks.

I know that you can get the schedule from a zillion locations. What’s different about mine? I added the location for each game in the format “Arena Name (City, State/Province – Country)”. I also set the “Private” flag and added a category of “blackhawks hockey”.

Chicago Blackhawks / 2009-2010 Regular Season / Outlook Import File / Central timezone
[download id="6" display="both"]

– Destructions for Importing into Outlook –

1. Click on the link for the schedule you wish to download and “Save target as”/”Save file” to your computer. Remember where you saved the file to!
2. In Outlook, click on “File -> Import and Export” from the toolbar
3. Select “Import from another program or file” and click “Next”
4. Select “Comma Separated Values (Windows)” and click “Next”
5. Browse to where you saved the download file, highlight it and click “OK”. Make sure the path to that file is correct in the “File to import:” area
6. Do not change anything under “Options”
7. Highlight “Calendar” under “Select destination folder:” and click “Next”
8. Make sure there is a check in the box in “The following actions will be performed:” to the left of “Import…”
9. Click on “Finish”
10. Do a happy dance.

I’m a nerd.

I am publishing — if you want to call it that — an import file for Outlook with the entire 2009-2010 regular season for the Buffalo Sabres.

I know that you can get the schedule from a zillion locations.  What’s different about mine?  I added the location for each game in the format “Arena Name (City, State/Province – Country)”.  I also set the “Private” flag and added a category of “sabres hockey”.

I am currently living in the Central timezone, so I have two files here to download:

Buffalo Sabres / 2009-2010 Regular Season / Outlook Import File / Eastern timezone
[download id="4" display="both"]

Buffalo Sabres / 2009-2010 Regular Season / Outlook Import File / Central timezone
[download id="5" display="both"]

– Destructions for Importing into Outlook –

1.  Click on the link for the schedule you wish to download and “Save target as”/”Save file” to your computer.  Remember where you saved the file to!
2.  In Outlook, click on “File -> Import and Export” from the toolbar
3.  Select “Import from another program or file” and click “Next”
4.  Select “Comma Separated Values (Windows)” and click “Next”
5.  Browse to where you saved the download file, highlight it and click “OK”. Make sure the path to that file is correct in the “File to import:” area
6.  Do not change anything under “Options”
7.  Highlight “Calendar” under “Select destination folder:” and click “Next”
8.  Make sure there is a check in the box in “The following actions will be performed:” to the left of “Import…”
9.  Click on “Finish”
10.  Do a happy dance.

Hmmm. Nice iPhone app for Wordpress. Could open a lot of blogging possibilities….

Putting my photos up on Flickr has really turned a lot of communication my way — from a lot of different quarters.

Including…  Schmap.

Schmap is map-mash with photos to indicate places of interest, events, etc…  Kinda neat!

Two of my photos were included with the latest editions for Chicago and Galway.

The Chicago entry, although the photo was taken in Grant Park, is NOT at the Grant Park Music Festival, rather it is at Lollapalooza 2008.

The Galway entry is of the Great Southern Hotel.

Neither of the photos are anywhere NEAR the best photos I have taken, but it is still nice to see my name next to a photo credit! 

yes.  i am behind on updates.  i know.

between being ill, travel, WORK and, most importantly, a complete computer crash…  it has been tough.  i just spent some time building a completely new system from scratch.  something i have not done, believe it or not, in almost 12 years.  all this time, i have been purchasing open box “major brand” desktops and then retrofitting them with new components.

so…

i am up and running again — for the most part.  i am still migrating a bunch of settings and, sadly, it looks like i am going to have to rebuild the entire image database i have on my desktop.  it is going to be a while before i can get photos from the past month and a half up here…

on a good note…  i am totally digging vista.  and my new core 2 duo proc.  and my new kick ass video card.  and the 4GB of RAM.  and everything else i put into this monster…  ahem.

as luck (?) would have it…

this past saturday we were getting ready to leave the house to meet alison’s brother for brunch. i picked up our camera — a panasonic dmc-fx01 that we had picked up just before our wedding last october — and tossed it in my pocket as i usually do when leaving the house. we hopped into a cab to make it to the restaurant and got about 10 blocks before i saw something i wanted to photograph… a man with a high pressure hose cleaning the statue of confucious in chinatown. i hit the “on” switch on the camera and… nothing happened! i tried a new battery… nothing. i then proceeded to pry at it, stare at it, vulcan mind meld with it and finally used a bit of brute force. nothing. gar!

after brunch activity? buying a new camera!

for a while, i had been coveting a new panasonic model that, as fate would have it, came out last week. it is effectively the same “type” of camera as our old one with a bunch of new optics, resolution, an iso mode and a slightly changed/enhanced operating system. the “big” thing for me was the 28mm wide-angle lens on it…

off to circuit city we went… what a zoo! thank goodness we quickly saw that they did not have what we wanted and we hit the subway to go to J & R .

we spent about 10 minutes at J & R .  3 minutes to find the camera and test our current batteries and then 7 minutes to check out.

so… we now have a panasonic dmc-fx100. and loving it!

there are new pics taken with that camera in the photo section — including:

• SI Yankees Game (20070721)
• Night Out in NYC (20070725)

check ‘em out!

a while back, icebrrrg turned me on to a site called “woot“.  basically, it is a once-a-day super special on a random product.  i have purchased a few things — not the least of which was a wireless meat thermometer that…  wait for it…  talks!  it is usually something “gadget like”…

when i logged in today at woot, i saw another woot site that i am sure to love.  woot wine!  it is the same concept as vanilla woot, except with super deals on wine!  kick ass.

erock. simpsonized.

check it out for yourself! get simpsonized!

someday…  i must have this hot tub.

infinity vista tv spa

even better?  costco!  i knew there was a reason that i renewed my card every year…

(thanks to crave for turning me on to it…)

nice.  from the folks at blendtec…

“i think i’m going to press the smoothie button.” bah ha ha ha

(thanks to mike for the link!)