Taiyo Johnson (太陽 ジョンソン)

Hi there.

Quick-rant.

So my best friend (whom I met in Tokyo) is British Canadian.

He convinced me of the merit of British English (spelling), as it is real English.

So I always write to him with the best English spelling I can muster (as one born American).

Today I found a great aid to that – an online spell checker.
Most PCs here are set to American spelling and without this SAAS spell checker if you found yourself in a situation where you could not add or switch to English you would be out of luck.

Quick rant.

I work a lot with Picasa.
Today I has trying to edit some new photos for a client in picasa but picasa was not scanning the folder properly so that no photos were coming up.

Some Googling produced this Picasa troubleshooter.

Quick rant.
So today I wanted to create formula’s based on data across several sheets in Google Docs.

Here is what I found as a how to.

How does one label oneself?

Am/being are interesting thoughts.
Much more so than “what do you do.”
Doing is second to being.
But that is another story.

I am re-branding my taiyojohnson.com professional profile page today.

It’s tagline was “small business revolutionary.”
But I have been thinking that another tagline might be better (perhaps one with less bravado… or not)

The first thing that came to mind was “small business maven”

“small business guerrilla” is also appealing as it fits with my bootstrapping and guerrilla marketing ways.

But I was also considering these:
mechanic
small business intelligence

small business prodigy
prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, superability, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom

know-how, mastery
proficiency, savvy,

champion, genius, master, pro, star, virtuoso, winner, wizard
mastermind
whiz
specialist, geek, techie
engineer
ace
artist, authority
guide

mentor
counselor, consultant,
thinker
doctor

// revolutionary

rebel, radical
agitator, zealot, haranger, instigator
visionary

I searched and found a few web based IME’s today.

I have used a web-based IME for Japanese for some time. My Nipponster Toolbar has one that I use often.

Now that I am learning Chinese I need a Chinese IME.
A web-based IME let’s you use your regular English language Windows and without any additional software you can write (input) in Chinese (using PinYin).

Here is the link to the new one I am using InputKing

For more search this google search “Chinese Web Input”

Enjoy!

I am looking for something part-time.

Craigslist has two sections of interest :

internet engineer section (http://miami.craigslist.org/eng/)
and
web / info design
(http://miami.craigslist.org/web/)

elance.com
scriptlance.com
guru.com
sitepoint.com
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

craigslist.com

Ok. So I was making a spreadsheet one day on Google Docs and it needed to have 31 columns (for 31 days) but annoyingly Google’s spreadsheet stops at column “T.”

Right clicking on that column brings up a box that offers the option to insert 1 column (either to the left or right). That is fine if you only need a few columns but what if you want to add many columns quickly?!!

So I googled the problem (ahh Google, the cause of and answer to all a web workers problems…) but surprisingly found nothing. I also (as far as I can remember) checked in the help documentation and found nothing there either.

Thus I grinned and bared inserting my few columns one by one.

A few days later, back in Google Docs, I happened to be selecting multiple columns at the same time and then when I right clicked on the last column it said “insert 5…” (see pic below)

Aaaa ha!

And so, Tori learnt that to insert multiple columns simultaneously in Google Docs spreadsheets he just had believe and select multiple columns before right clicking. He went on todo beautiful work with Google Documents and his love for the program grew and grew. In time others came around to the usefulness of the program too and they all lived happily ever after

Today I am having one of those days that makes me want to give up and just do something conventional and have a regular, stationary, life.

The problem (if it truly is a problem) is that I have lived my life up until this point so unconventionally and been pushed back and forth in so many cases that there is no conventional life for me.

The only thing consoling is the thought that this trial is molding me into a better man.

So, I am posting this so I remember to check it out and so I can archive it in gmail and get my inbox to zero.

here is something cool fromt the google friends newsletter

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