Google Treasure Hunt 2008 - 2

I read somewhere there were four rounds total, I now have the two first correct: d0d696, 7602f9

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Thank you for entering the Treasure Hunt! Below is the entry we received. You can enter as many times as you like (start over to get a new question). Save your confirmation code so you can check on the status of your entry later.

Confirmation code: 7602f9

 

Your email address: spam.me@live.com

Your question: 2 sums from 70933637679287891xx.zip: line 3 in *pqr*.rtf, line 4 in *zzz*.js

Your answer: 16123822xx

Time received: 2008-05-20 22:29:22.867978 UTC

 

Correct answer: 16123822xx

Your answer was: Correct

Your answer was correct! Congratulations, you're part-way there.

There will more questions over the coming weeks, and the first person to answer them all correctly will win a prize, so keep trying!

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Surveys conducted for free

I sometimes need to do a survey without having a budget (e.g. for the school of my children), I've used excel and email. This has meant a lot of work. I answered a survey for family to get on a list for early adoption of a coming google product and found this link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/newform

here you can design your survey:

Which results in a survey:

And a spreadsheet:

Timestamp	Enter your email
18.05.2008 kl. 05.12.01	spam.me@live.com

Incredible!

Congratulations Google.

Google reader on the phone

I use google reader for reading blogs. I like it. Going through the settings, I found that reader can be used on the phone. I've tried gmail on my phone (Windows Mobile 5) and wasn't impressed so I had low expectations.

 

I got (almost) exactly what I wanted:

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Only thing I'm missing is a setting to disable the scroll bar (number of items can be 5, 10 or 20; I would like an additional choice "auto" that fed me the number of items that fit on my screen). Should be reasonably straight-forward to guesstimate how many goes on the screen: they know how large the client area is and how much a one-liner, two-liner and three-liner takes, and (roughly) how much goes on a line.

I tried the other products too. Nice:

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Google mobilprodukter

 Søk

 Gmail

 Kalender

 Nyheter

 Bilder

*Tips: Legg inn dette bokmerket for å få rask tilgang til Google-tjenester.

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Retningslinjer for personvern

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Software for mobile is getting better.

Google Treasure Hunt 2008 – and some Google App Engine

It's the Norwegian constitution day (or rather was before mid-night), so I'll recapitulate and do some stuff I have been pushing in front of me. First I went through material of SQL Server 2008 BI for a couple of hours and emptied some inboxes (removing all items is the liberating way to go). Then I stumbled over

google treasure hunt.

http://google-au.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-treasure-hunt.html

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Arrrrrrrr you ready? Onward to the first puzzle, matey! And good luck!

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I got 55x56 and my answer is Here is 4926360926504692838778xxxxxxxxxx (I will not give the actual answer).

The answer was correct (actually I was lucky), so I'm in the contest:
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Your email address: spam.me@live.com
Your question: 55 x 56
Your answer: 4926360926504692838778…
Time received: 2008-05-18 00:24:53.803640 UTC

Correct answer: 4926360926504692838778…
Your answer was: Correct

Your answer was correct! Congratulations, you're part-way there.
There will more questions over the coming weeks, and the first person to answer them all correctly will win a prize, so keep trying!
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Hope I get the time to follow this up.

I also added "Google App Engine", "Google Treasure Hunt" and "python site:codeplex.com" to my list of google alerts. Once a week, of course, play time is sparse.
http://code.google.com has got to wait for now.

I am amazing

My first gig.

Hope this works.

Business Intelligence VPC Release 6

Moved:
http://information-management-enabled.blogspot.com/2008/05/business-intelligence-vpc-release-6.html

Enable auto-logon

Moved:
http://information-management-enabled.blogspot.com/2008/05/enable-auto-logon.html

Disable shutdown event tracker warning

Moved:

http://information-management-enabled.blogspot.com/2008/05/disable-shutdown-event-tracker-warning.html