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In honor of Ye11owDay (or is it Ye118owDay?), I logged went to my blog here at BleedYellow, and was surprised to see the site was all blue. I guess Chris, Nathan and the other guys at Lotus911 have an odd sense of humor. :-)

To celebrate the day, I am wearing a yellow shirt, have my desktop decorated with the Ye11owDay logo and brought my morning tea in a Lotusphere water bottle from my collection. The yellow coffee cup is a "Coffee Cup for Dummies" I got while working at IDG Sweden in the 90’s.

 For the last few years, I been a big fan of Chipotle, a chain of burrito restaurants. The burritos are good, they meat is from animals raised without hormones and antibiotics, same with the sour cream. The beans are ecologically grown, etc. In short, I been feeling good eating there, and I also thought the food was reasonable healthy.

Last Saturday I went to get a haircut, and happened to pick up Men’s Health or some similar magazine. They had a tip; have a bol (bowl) at Chipotle instead of a burrito, skip the sourcream and cheese and add double tomatoes. They said that the tortilla by itself was 300 calories!

I looked onthe Chipotle website, but no nutritional information. But I found a site that had it, Chipotlefan.com. I added up what I usually get in my burrioto: Tortilla, rice, pinto beans, barbacoa meat, tomato, corn, hot sauce, cheese and sourcream. 1136 calories, 42 grams of fat!

Ouch!!

So today I tried their bol (a paper/cardbord bowl with the ingredients put in). Rice, pinto beans, barbacoa meat, tomato, hot sauce and lettuce. 521 calories, 13 grams of fat. Much better, and it tasted great. Next time i will skip the beans, that will bring me down to 413 calories, 12 gram of fat. That’s less than a double cheeseburger at McDonalds (440 calories, 23 grams of fat), but more food and healthier.

 Found a list on the Mens Health magazine over the 20 worst food items in different categories.

The "winner"? Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing with 2,900 calories, 182 g fat and 240 g carbs.

This weapon of mass construction is the caloric equivalent of eating 14 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, before your dinner arrives. Even if you split this "starter" with 3 friends, you’ll have downed a meal’s worth of calories.

You should also look at some other bad items. It is scary! For example, the number 2 on the list (worst starter), Chili’s Awesome Blossom: 2,710 calories, 203 g fat, 194 g carbs, 6,360 mg sodium

It takes a special talent to turn a single oversized onion into the fat equivalent of 67 slices of bacon, but the line cooks at Chili’s manage this horrific feat with the help of a thick batter, a calorie-loaded dipping sauce, and a vat of bubbling fat.

Good thing I never eat those anyway. However, as you seen in a previous posting, I recently realized how bad the burritos at Chipotle are.

The Chipotle Mexican Grilled Chicken Burrito makes the list, as "worst mexican entree" with 1,179 calories, 47 g fat, 125 g carbs and 2,656 mg sodium.

 A few years ago I got an account at HotOrNot.com, one of the early sites where you could rate pictures, in this case guys or girls who uploaded their pictures for rating. I experimented with different pictures, and some got good results, other got not so good. I actually used the ratings to decide which pictures to use on regular dating websites. The one rated high were used, the other ones were dropped. The other day I shot a quick picture with my cell phone, and just for fun I put it up on the site. I was surprised about the feedback…

Even if math was not my strongest subject in school, I don’t understand how the average can be 9.5… Unless it is calculated in some weird way…

Seems like Melanie’s husband Chuck now is taking responsibility.

One of the comments further down have an interesting point/explanation:

I do DSL support for a major ISP. I think I can guess how Mr. Kroll came to send the e-mail from his wife´s account”…”.

Many businesses (and quite a few individuals) use e-mail client programs, typically various versions of Outlook and Outlook Express on MSwindows machines or MacMail on Mac OS X machines. If you have multiple e-mail adresses in one of these programs, one of them will be tagged as "default" and, unless changed when you send an e-mail, the default address will be used as the "from" address for any e-mail.

At a guess Mrs. Kroll´s machine was set up this way and Mr. Kroll?n his rage?orgot to change the from address. Understandable, in a stupid sort of way, but poor setup in any case.

On any reasonbly modern machine (WinXP, Vista, Mac OS X, Linux), access can be separated by login account and mail clients can be set differently for each account in order to prevent something like that?t least to extent that the error would be sending e-mail inadvertently from ones own work account, rather than that of someone else.

Perhaps worth to point out is that if you use the Lotus Notes client for your email, you don’t have the same problem, even if you have Notes setup to be your default mail client. If Notes is not running, you get a login prompt asking you for password, and you see the name of the user. Of course you don’t give your spouse the password to your work mail.

But in most cases I would assume that you don’t use Notes as default mail client for mailto links. I have Gmail setup for that, using Gmail Notifier. So to send work mail, I login to the Notes client, and to send mail to addresses found on web pages, I use Gmail.

 The other day, Philip Storry wrote "A lack of training, or a lack of intelligence", about someone sending a death threat to a professor who happens to be an atheist. This person (mkroll, who later was identified as Melanie Kroll) sent the mail from her work address at 1-800-FLOWERS. If you look at the headers provided by Professor Myers, you can see that the address is not spoofed.

I contacted a journalist at IDG that I know from working there, and he did some investigating to see if he would be able to write a story about this. I just got a mail from him, informing me that Melanie was fired yesterday over this mail.

I say as the very funny Ron White: "You just can’t fix stupid"…

 Robert McMillan just wrote a story in PC World about a new laptop tracking system, which is free:

Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if it’s a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach.

But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back. On Monday, they plan to launch a new laptop tracking service, called Adeona that is free and private.

Named after the Roman goddess credited with guiding children back to their parents, Adeona uses software that has been under development for the past year. 

Sounds interesting! Read the full article for more details.

You are Superman

Superman 75% Iron Man 70% Spider-Man 65% Green Lantern 65% Robin 57% The Flash 55% Supergirl 50% Catwoman 50% Batman 45% Hulk 45% Wonder Woman 35%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
 

 Bill Buchan just wrote about exporting data to Excel using a CSV file. There is actually a cool and surprisingly easy way to generate documents that show up in Excel as real spreadsheets, with formatting, colors, etc.

Simply create a file containing a HTML table. It may even work with multiple tables. You can use tags like <B> and <I> for bold/italic, and use the color attribute to set text color and background color. Use the colspan attribute to split a cell over multiple columns.

Save the file in Lotusscript as a regular text file, but with the extension XML XLS. Excel, as well as OpenOffice.org, will read the HTML and present as a nice spreadsheet.

 We all know that Notes let us create tabbed tables. But you have limits to how nice you can create the tabs.

In an application I am working on, I wanted full control of the tabs, and I found out it was actually pretty easy to create my own tabs. I just used a computed background, something I actually never used before.

By the way, I stoleborrowed the graphics from Yahoo Mail for now, until I get the final graphics created…

The application displays information about the (insurance) claim selected in the drop-down box. Each claim has one or more claimants (affected people/parties), and I display them in the tabbed section. You can see the tabs in the screenshot below.

What I simply do is to keep track of the currently selected claimant, the number of claimants, and then I built a table with 3 columns in the first row and one merged cell as the second row.

In the center cell in the first row, I set the background to the "active colored" (lighter) tab. I use @Formulas to set the background in the two other cells:

@If( @TextToNumber(CurrentClaimantNumber) > 1; "CCdb_InactiveTab.gif"; "" )

and

@If( @TextToNumber(CurrentClaimantNumber) < @TextToNumber(LNPClaimantCount); "CCdb_InactiveTab.gif"; "" )

The inactive tab is the darker one. Then it is just a question about writing code that trigger when the lables (computed-for-display fields) are clicked, to update the current claimant value, load the claimant data and refresh the form.

I hope you get some inspiration from this. Oh, and this is all Notes 5…