Event: Happy Birthday to me from JCW!

Thanks to everyone at JCW for the birthday/Eagle scout award 'party'. It was fun, and a great change in my oh so normal day up till then.

Cake Picture:

Meeting: LEAPS Intern meeting: January

LEAPS Intern Monthly Meeting Minutes
January 25, 2006 2:30- 4:00

Facilitator- Logan Bloom
Scribe- Colin Smalley
Time Keeper- Ryan Metcalf

Opening:
Check-in
The above responsibilities were, with the exception of the Facilitator, volunteered for prior to the beginning of the meeting, “due to casualties,” as Logan put it. He was referring to the absence of Kendra (sick), Marie (work), Michela (graduated), and Kalie (earning the responsibility of treat-bringer)
Logan added a guideline change: The last person to arrive at the meeting earns the responsibility to bring treats. (Feel free to send Kalie your favorite cookie recipe for the Feb. meeting…)

Training Topic:
“Using Grammar for Business Writing Training” – led by Barb
Logan revealed the fact that he had littered his communications about this meeting with misspellings in a direct effort to give Barb an example in her presentation.
Start 2:43; End 3:30
“E-mail Etiquette” – led by Willetta
Start 3:31; End 3:52

Roundtable Discussion:
Update from all interns (extremely brief)

Closing:
Pictures for promotional purposes in the BOCC room.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, February 22- 2:30- 4:00
Responsibilities-
Facilitator- Ryan
Scribe- Marie
Timekeeper- Kalie
Cookie-maker: Kalie

Event: PDF creation and processing time comparisons

Lately I have been converting folders of documents from paper to a paperless PDF version to cut down storage space necessary for all of these documents once we move to the new office location in March. I had 30 sets of documents scanned with varying page lengths, 19 of which had already been shoved into PDF documents and had OCR (optical character recognition) performed on them. I had 11 remaining and wanted to cut the time it would take to produce these documents. So, I went with the obvious choice, a faster computer. Currently in my 'office' I have 2 computers a Celeron machine running at 897 mHz, and a Pentium 4 machine running at 3.00 gHz, but only have Adobe Professional and the installation rights for the celeron machine. Lucky enough for me an office down the hall, formerly occupied by Nazar, has a Pentium 4 machine that happens to be availale for occasional use and sports Adobe Professional already installed. The results were fantastic, it had several hundred .jpg files put together in one document and had done a complete OCR job on the whole mess in under 5 minutes. On the celeron machine, you can expect it to take somewhere in the ballpark of 45 minutes, partially due to the fact that it's trying to operate Outlook and Employee check-in/check-out software in the background.