One Touch Tool for Linux Users and SugarStats.com
I have recently become a very advid user of a site called SugarStats.com to manage control of my blood sugar records,
If you have diabetes, I highly recommend this site. It has great discussion forms stats, logs and graphs to help you or to learn more about your diabetes.
Since I'm also a bit of a 'techie' I've created some scripts for linux users to automatically upload your blood sugar results from your One Touch (Ultra/Ultra 2) meter.
I'm putting this out there for any techies using a "real" operating system :-)
If you're on linux, and you have the One Touch Ultra meter and cable, you can find some scripts I worked on to automatically download your meter results and upload them to SugarStats on a regular basis.
I have mine in a cron job, so I just plug in my meter and walk away and instantly they get pushed to sugarstats.
The tools are here free to anyone who wants them :
http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/onetouch-utlis.zip
Tagged as: | diabetes | health
GoogleLookup: do things you never thought possible with spreadsheets | Everyone Wants to Beah Blogger
From the page: "A couple of weeks ago, I unwittingly stumbled across a serious contender for coolest Google product feature: GoogleLookup. GoogleLookup is a Google Spreadsheets function that attempts to return the value of any attribute for any entity that you specify. Hereā€s the syntax: =GoogleLookup(ā€¯entityā€¯; ā€oeattributeā€¯)."
Tagged as: | business | computer | stumbleme | internet | spreadsheets | google-docs | google | tips | search | beahburger | blog
Visualization Considerations | Own Page One: Search Engine Visibility Blog - Online Marketing Strategy and Tips
Here's a cool article on why graphs are important, and why the type of graph you choose is important for the information you are trying to convey.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Graphs should "talk to you". You should be able to reach usefull conclusions that you can action on. Otherwise what's the point?
Tagged as: | stumbleme | marketing | analytics | blog | purevisibility | 2008 | 07 | visualization
Managing Your Online Identity
I have very strong opinions on first impressions, I am an avid believer of the phrase, 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' However, I also realize that not everyone holds the same belief as me.
In today's online social world we need not only to consider your physical first impression as well as your online impression.
Are you are familar with the notion of 'googling yourself'? I am sure everyone has done it at one time or another. Typed their name in the google search box and see what pops up. What people may not realize is that many people are also typing names (perhaps yours) into a search engine to learn more about a person, perhaps in preparation for a meeting, an interview, or soon afterwards.
I have recently started using a search engine designed just for this purpose. Spock.com - the best for people search. It is not like google, it is not a generic search engine, it is specifically designed for looking up information about others (or yourself) The link below is to an interesting article on their site about how they can help you manage your online idenity.
So the next time you are meeting someone for the first time, and trying to figure the right way to shake his/her hand, ask yourself, will this person be searching for me later?
Tagged as: | first impressions | people search | search engines | seo
Do-it-yourself Search Engine Tools
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Shows keyword popularity from Wordtracker and international Overture databases and suggests related terms. Search Engine Ranking Report
See if your site is in the top 100
Tagged as: | seo | search | money | optimization | free
