So you want to collect a few photos from several hundred people and organize them into a web album. You can't be sure that these people have Google accounts or Dropbox accounts. Never fear! Using a Picasa web album, you can do so quite easily. Your contributors don't need anything other than an email account to submit their photos. Here's how:

1. Create a Picasa web album called "Testing emailed photos"
2. Follow these instructions to enable uploading photos by email
3. Email this link to the potential photo contributors. All they have to do is email the photos to the special email address you created within your Picasa settings in Step 2. As long as the subject line matches the name of your album "Testing emailed photos," the photos will be automatically added to the album.

Caveats: photos are limited to 20MB (total attachment size) and photos are automatically added to the album. This could be a problem if you don't know what kind of photos you will be receiving.

You have a series of hyperlinks from which you want to extract the URLs. You want to keep the hyperlink display text as well.

1. Copy the hyperlinks into a column in Excel (column A).
2. Copy the hyperlinks into the adjacent column as well (column B).
3. Select column B and right-click on the selected cells. Choose "Edit Hyperlink"
4. In "Display" the value will be "multiple cells". Delete this text and save. Just the URLs will remain in column B.
5. Select column A and right-click on the selected cells. Choose "Remove Hyperlink". Just the display text will remain in column A.

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The rise of emerging markets and a host of new billionaires from third-world countries helped boost the ranks of the 10-figure club to a record 793, as 102 people managed to make the leap. The average net worth of the list's members is $3.3-billion (U.S.). Their combined wealth grew 18 per cent to $2.6-trillion, greater than the GDP of all but six countries in the world.

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Brad Templeton's blog is good. It's mostly an ideas blog, and his post on the implications of IM on friendships is worth reading.

Electro-smog isn't good for you.

A post with some substance.