How many bytes in a kilobyte? What is the difference between Kb and kb, etc? xkcd resolves this once and for all: [link]

Pentium F.P.U. jokes: Incredibly dated, yet somehow still funny!

bonny, I do use Quickbooks for our business, rather extensively. I'd be happy to talk with you more about the details of it, and I'll make myself available to you for any specific questions.

We are a corporation (non-profit) instead of a sole proprietorship, so there are obviously differences in how we manage our funds (and we do have separate accounts and credit cards for the business and personal lives) but Quickbooks should allow you to make the distinctions you need.

Without knowing all the details of what you're looking at, I'd make two possible recommendations. One is, you can set up subaccounts underneath your main bank account in the chart of accounts and use that to differentiate between personal and business expenses, keeping separate ledgers that total as one. For example, I have our one business checking account, but I keep a subaccount each for payroll liabilities, grant money that was designated for a specific purpose, and sales income that needs to go back out for the same project. I mark money that comes in for those purposes into that account and I mark it when it goes out for those purposes out of that account.

Secondly, if that won't work for you, or if you want something simpler, you can use something called "classes" to identify all transactions. You could set up a class for personal and a class for business. Then when you did reporting, you could separate it out by classes. The way I use classes is for broad job categories: recording, traveling music school, administration, fundraising. Then when I need to know how much of my spending is for our main program, I just call up transactions with the class "traveling music school" and I can see exactly what I'm bringing in and what I'm spending.

Then when I need to know how much of my spending is for our main program, I just call up transactions with the class "traveling music school" and I can see exactly what I'm bringing in and what I'm spending.

THIS would be hugely beneficial to me. I would love to be able to, at a glance, figure our how much I'm making/spending on doggy lama vs. the people coaching business. I doubt that I'd give one up over the other, but I am a fan of efficient use of resources. If one business is more cost effective/profitable, I'd like to focus on that...obviously.

I'll read up on the classes function. And thank you Liese, for the offer of specific help. I am grateful for your guidance!

For a moment, completely disconnected from anything else, I'd like to express my appreciation for the spicy minds, and generous spirits among the Buffistas.

And, while I'm at it, I might as well add that despite the occasional frustrations and confusions I experience with technology, I'm damn glad to have it.

Coming from a generation that knew not where we would go beyond mimeograph machines and Pong, I am thrilled by the convenience and sheer magic that is technology.

I've been dragging my feet trying to recreate a particular document...just because I really liked the original and doubted I could pull it out of my mind in as good shape. And I was dumb enough to give the last hard copy to a client because, "I'll always have it on the eMac."

Then, I recalled that I probably emailed it to someone over the last 4 years...so I searched my online, all in one communications client and found it as an attachment. For some reason, it had been translated in to a .dat file, unreadable by Word. Opened it up in text edit and then transfered the text back into Word with most of the formatting intact.

A process that took 5 minutes, versus the not getting it done at all I was stuck in.

All hail technology!

For some reason, it had been translated in to a .dat file, unreadable by Word. Opened it up in text edit and then transfered the text back into Word with most of the formatting intact.

Did you try simply changing the file name extension from .dat to .doc? You might have gotten all the formatting and saved a few more minutes!

Never occurred to me that I could do that!!

Filed for future reference. Thanks!

A friend is going to be in Japan for nine months. Anyone want to contribute suggestions for cool tech he could get while he was there that is either cheaper than here, or not available here?

He is not super technically savvy, but as a professor does have use for media capabilities, and does enjoy playing with leading edge stuff. Also he has twenty something daughters who might enjoy stuff he could get there. Daughters also not super techie, but more comfortable with some thing. Like father not phobic, and willing to struggle to master stuff.

All suggestions welcome. Please specify if for him, daughters, or both.

Thanks

iPhone and iTouch users. A very cool new website for us all. Could be very useful when reading/posting in b.org. A wacked out way to copy/paste. Only works in browser. It's more of "copy/paste/paste", but it works!. Here is the link to the newstory and the link to the website

I just took apart my MacBook Pro and replaced the fan without looking at any instructions first. I am both stupid and proud.