I just tabulated (and published) our history of bills from Xcel Energy for the last 12 months. I used google spreadsheets just to try it out and it's pretty neat. The "publish" feature makes it easy to share the thing, the I wish it would also give a "download in ODS, XLS, RTF, CSV format" link.

A couple interesting things to note:

Here's a handy little "cheat sheet" that tells you what all the SVN status codes mean. I was tired of doing

svn status

? files/small.txt
? files/small_0.txt
M boards/phorum/cache
M boards/phorum/include/db/config.php

man svn

So I made this simple little sheet. Print it out. Stick it on the wall. In a month, you know the codes and throw it away (or better yet, give it to your friend who is learning SVN).

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup orange juice (pulpy is best) or fruit of one orange
• 1/4 cup milk

And Add These According To Taste (a dash each):

• Orange zest
• Cinammon
• Nutmeg

Whisk with a fork (or a whisk) to get a good mix. Fry in a pan (buttered or non-stick) for a few minutes on each side until browned. For a bonus add more of the spices onto the toast as it fries up in the pan to really bring out those flavors.

Moshe has provided a quick screenshot of groups.drupal.org usage map overlay which is neat. I like looking at this kind of data from the perspective of density and growth.

Sorting by the number of visits is interesting, but neglects the fact that countries are different sizes. Sorting be people/visit shows more of a "weighting" by the size of the country, but discounts the levels of computer/internet penetration within the country. It's not perfect, but it's still interesting. If you want the raw data here is the spreadsheet.

One more skewing factor: rss feeds

I've written about Pretty Impress Templates before, but I found some more good ones recently.

Chih-Hao Tsa has created several templates that are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license (cc-by-sa).

Favorite Impress Template

Kaohsiung was my favorite:

And...here's the link to this collection of Impress Templates