The Food Pantry in Highland, IL

This is the letter I wrote to the director of the food pantry today.

To whom it may concern,



This woman was so extremely rude to me when I went in to the Food Pantry today. She began by telling me that my income is too high. I proceeded to tell her that yes, it seems like I make a lot, but I don't get to keep it. I'm currently paying off 10,000+ dollars in debt, and I'm about to file for bankruptcy. My husband doesn't work because he has a mental illness. She told me that my husband should get a job, and it's my fault for having all of the debt because I bought the items. She then said that she's there to help people that really need the help, and asked me if I was OK with taking food that other people really need. This woman does not know me, and does not know my situation. Numbers written on a piece of paper do not tell an accurate story of someone's life. If I didn't need the food, I wouldn't have been there. I'm not just going in there to get some free food for the hell of it, and I don't appreciate the insinuations that this woman made. When the bankruptcy was done, I hadn't planned on continuing to go there. I appreciate the items that the Food Pantry has given me, but now I would rather starve then go back there.



Your volunteers need to realize that they are no better than anyone else, and should stop treating people like they are.



~Angela Benton

Minimize all open workbooks in Excel

I just had to share this. I spent an hour searching the interwebs looking for a simple VBA code to minimize all of the open workbooks in Excel. It seems like it should be really easy and simple to find, but it wasn't. Finally, after borrowing some code from excel.tips.net, and tweaking it slightly, I came up with this:

Sub Minimize_All()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Dim wkb As Workbook

    For Each wkb In Workbooks
        If Windows(wkb.Name).Visible Then _
          ActiveWindow.WindowState = xlMinimized
    Next
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

And it works perfectly! I created myself a little icon and now all is right with the world; until I find something else to fix.

--
~Angela Benton

New Laptop!

Here are the details about my new laptop!

XPS M1530, Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB 2M L2 Cache)

Tuxedo Black
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440x900) w/ 2MP Camera
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
Slot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)
Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card
Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
PLUS!
A 250GB eGo USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
AND!
Free Wireless Sennheiser RS 100 Headphones
WOOT!!!!!!

How to change the WebClip icons on your iPhone

The fact that some of my favorite mobile sites (*cough* Plurk *cough) have yet to implement a webapp icon for use on the iPhone was really starting to upset me. A mini-screenshot just wasn't cutting it for me anymore. So, I decided to figure out how to change it.



BTW: this tutorial assumes that you have a jailbroken iPhone and know how to use WinSCP or something similar.

1. Connect to your iPhone via WinSCP

2. Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/WebClips/

3. Find the WebClip icon that you want to change. They don't make this very easy. The only way to do it is to open each folder and open the icon.png file.

4. Create the icon that you want to use and name it icon.png. You can do this however you would like, just make sure it's 57X57 pixels. For my Plurk icon, I just resized their current favicon. Those with Photoshop skills could come up with something way better, I'm sure.

5. Overwrite your icon.png with the one on the iPhone.

6. Restart your Springboard. If you have Customize installed, you can do it from in there. Otherwise, I think you'll just have to restart your phone.

And that should be it! Have fun!

Powncip

Powncip

Powncip shows you what the current buzzwords on Pownce are. Very cool.

Cheating, With Windows at Geek and Destroy

Bored at work and want to look like a genius to your coworkers? Check this site out:

Cheating, With Windows at Geek and Destroy

Pointfest

I thought this was a really cool picture from the lawn at Pointfest last night. It doesn't really convey just how many people were there, though. It was ridiculous. The amphitheater holds 20,000 people, and they sold out, so the place was packed.

The music was good. None of my favorite bands were playing or anything, but it was still a good time. Finger Eleven was good. They played a few snippets of covers halfway through Paralyzer like Another Brick in the Wall. Filter was good, but Ray missed most of them because he was in line getting me nachos, and the lines at Riverport are always so long and so slow. Oh, and Killswitch Engage was awesome, too.

We saw a massive double-fight on the lawn. From what I heard, these guys were hitting on the other guys' girlfriends, so, being the neanderthals that they are, they jumped them. It was actually a really weak fight (just some yelling and shoving), but then the crowd gathered around them and started chanting "Kick his ass!" and other such sayings, so the violence level of the fight increased. There was no bloodsheed, but apparantly there was a winner because there was an abundance of cheering and then the group dissipated. I've never understood the fascination with fights. Just not my cup of tea, I guess.

All in all, I had an OK time. I always enjoy myself at concerts, and this was no exception.