Extreme Sheep LED Art

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This is amazing. Thank you Jeannie for sharing this!

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CSV to vCard Conversion Tool

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Recently my company moved phones systems to a new VOIP provider. The transition was much smoother than expected on a technical level but we now have all new phone numbers. This posed a challenge to update everyone’s individual vCards. We had all this information in a spreadsheet so I figured I would just download a spreadsheet (or csv file) to vCard converter. After spending way too much time looking, I decided just to build one myself. I have it located at http://dennismueller.org/blog/tools/vcard/csv-to-vcard/

Here is the tool:

You can download the source CSV to VCF at dennismueller.org/tools/csv2vcf.zip

Twitter is everywhere

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The social relevance of the is obvious.

You can find me at

California New House Tax Credit

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More incentive to buy a new home in California. This one is literally for a new house though. The legislature approved $100M dollars to go towards a tax credit for the new construction. It is state tax credit of 5% of the new home price to the maximum of $10,000. And to think all the squabbling over a budget might actually end up helping me.

This started March 1, 2009 and will end one year from now though I suspect the money will run dry before the date does. The credit will be given in equal amounts over a 3 year period. Other things of note:

• there are no maximum income requirements
• you do not have to be a first time home buyer
• it needs to be your primary residence for at least 2 years

State of California Franchise Tax Board link to the program:
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/New_Home_Credit.shtml

State of California Franchise Tax Board Application:
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/3528A.pdf

Great info on the new California Home Buyers Tax Credit:
http://www.newhomessection.com/blog/10000-tax-credit-for-home-buyers-in-california/2009/02/21/

Square Root Day

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To all you math fans out there, today is a special day.

It is Square Root Day: 03/03/09

(or for those who forgot their multiplication tables 3×3 = 9)

How might you best celebrate this momentous occasion?  Well, by eating, of course.  So tonight, take out your Ipomoea Batatas (sweet potatoes) cut them into squares for dinner and get your complete geek on!