Pandemic Flu The flu is a big health problem this time of year, and it seems every year the threat of pandemic influenza gets worse. The Pandemic Flu site has information about both the pandemic influenza and avian influenza. The site is divided into several categories. They are General Information, Health and Safety, Monitoring Outbreaks, … Continue reading Pandemic Flu
Painting Flowers
Painting Flowers This is a sister site to the site we ran earlier in the year called Painting the Weather. Navigation is pretty easy. You can browse with the side menu by Title, Artist, Flower Type, Theme, or Locations. At the bottom of the page, you can check out the Quiz on Flower Painting. Once … Continue reading Painting Flowers
Wood Carving or Wood Sculpting? You Decide
Wood Carving or Wood Sculpting: You Decide I was surfing around this wood working site when I came across this article. It was so neat I decided to share the article with you. The article is about woodworking artist Livio de Marchi. He sculpts the most amazing projects I've ever seen. Life-size realistic cars are … Continue reading Wood Carving or Wood Sculpting? You Decide
Create It My Way
Create It My Way Do you have settings in MS Excel such as formatting or choices from the Options window that you're constantly changing because Excel's blank workbook never seems to have things "the way you left them"? For example, Monday's setting for accepting labels in formulas. Excel's default is to not have that option … Continue reading Create It My Way
Liquid Sculpture
Liquid Sculpture I devote a lot of my research time to different forms of art. I found this site and was awed and simply amazed. At first I thought they were actual sculptures, and then I found they were photographs and decided that was much cooler. The process is interesting, too. You can read all … Continue reading Liquid Sculpture
UF Book of Insects Research
UF Book of Insect Research “The University of Florida Book of Insect Records names insect champions and documents their achievements.” Each chapter is on a different subject of their records. With 40 chapters in all, that’s a lot of insect champions. Here you will find the fastest flier's record, the loudest, the least tolerant to … Continue reading UF Book of Insects Research
Title Your Columns
Title Your Columns When you have a title at the top of a column of data, you can use that title in formulas instead of the cell reference. For example, let's suppose that you have two columns labeled "Original Price" and "Discount". Now let's say you want to create a third column that calculates the … Continue reading Title Your Columns
Everyday Science
Everyday Science "The National Synchrotron Light Source is a scientific facility that is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Each year, more than 2500 scientists from all over the world come to perform experiments at the NSLS. This website describes some of the everyday science that goes on at the NSLS and how it … Continue reading Everyday Science
Healthy Fridge
Healthy Fridge One of the big health concerns facing people right now is heart disease. This site is devoted to providing heart healthy tips for you and you family. Navigation is pretty simple. There are buttons near the top of the page that break the site down into four sections. Under those there are two … Continue reading Healthy Fridge
An Update On Updating
An Update On Updating In the last issue of the MS Office Tips newsletter (Thursday, October 27, 2005), we discussed formulas and using them in MS Word. At the time, my common sense meter must have been a quart or two low, because I simply wasn't coming up with any of the good ways to … Continue reading An Update On Updating