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Follow the yellow brick road!

Talia Devane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:54:50 -0800

I need to find the most affordable flight from south Georgia to California. I seem to have too many variables though. How do I find the best flight from multiple possible departure airports to multiple possible arrival airports? Throw flexible dates in there as well just for fun. I live near the GA/FL border and can fly from Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tallahassee or the local commuter airport. I have family near San Diego and San Francisco. I'm going to have to rent a car in any case on the west coast so arrival can be to any airport within 2 hours or so driving. As this is still all planning phase I have no set dates. I just need the cheapest way to get there with two kids. Am I asking something impossible here?

Will these new Japanese films ever be shown in SF Bay Area cinemas?

Rash — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:32:24 -0800

When will three new Japanese (or Japan-themed) films be shown in the SF Bay Area? (One of them just won an Academy Award). When will the following new Japanese (or Japanese-themed) films be shown in the SF Bay Area?
Okuribiko (aka Departures)
Tokyo!
Ponyo (the new Miyazaki, which was in Japan cinemas last summer)

How do I track and display team projects like airports track flights?

Milkman Dan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:39:02 -0800

You know the arrivals/departures screens that hang out in airports? I want one of those for my team, to help track the status of projects. What software do I need? I'm thinking it would be cool to have a tangible way to keep all team members informed about the status of our projects. My fictitious set-up is this: A monitor in a central location displays ten or so projects. On the screen, we have the following information for each project:
Project # | Project name | Date started | Date due | Status

It will display similarly to the airport monitors: different colours for different statuses, urgent projects on top.

My imagination suggests that with the right software running on a spare computer, hooked up to spare monitor, this should be easy. My question is, what software do I need? Is there any free airport tracking software that can be customized? Is there specific project tracking software that would do this?

We already have all of the data on each project in an Excel file. It includes extra fields that wouldn't be necessary for the display: person in charge, initiating department, project notes, project category, etc. If the software could read from this Excel file, beautiful; if not, manual data entry will work.

Does anybody have any useful contributions? I'm all ears.