1. First, you create a brand new Project Schedule in Microsoft Project Professional.  Publish this project and specify a name for the SharePoint site.
2. For any new projects that should be part of the same SharePoint site, create those schedules in Project Professional and specify the same location as the first one.

Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2007 fully support master projects, so you might create the first schedule as an empty one, then after all the others are creating, insert the links into the master.

-Bill

UPDATE: I meant to select "Average" in the demonstration and chose "Sum".  Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Hello All,

Every now and again I stumble upon a restaurant that puts me into such a good mood I cannot wait to go back.  Or worse, makes me want to order everything on the menu and damn the consequences.

Tonight I found such a place and it is so good I hesitate to recommend it (I like keeping the really good ones to myself).  It is funny how I ended up at this restaurant.  While dining at Kensington Grill (http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/profiles/places/91313), a self-described “regular” sitting next to me stated with enthusiasm that I must try "this great little French restaurant on 30th".  She could not remember the name but explained how to get there.

Turns out I met someone actually worse at directions than me.  There was no French restaurant to be found.  As I meandered down 30th quaint little restaurant named The Linkery beckoned.  Now this is my kind of spot.  Fresh ingredients from farms the owner and his staff personally visited.  Inexpensive but phenomenal wines.  Laid back music, dimly lit spots and a vaulted chalk board highlighting the evening's specials.

Once saddled up to the bar, Chelsea described in great detail how the menu worked and set me on my way to decide.  This was not easy.  The menu is made up of specials, perfectly prepared perpetuals (is that a Bush-ism?) and salads.

Did I mention anything can be served with their in-house sausages?  That's right; you can order a nice light salad and have them top it off with homemade sausages and even their house-made slab bacon.

There is more than just pork, although I had a North Carolina pulled Pork and red onion sandwich with house-cured pickles, slaw and a side of spicy mustard.  For those that know me, I am not a big beef fan.  This might have ended tonight because someone ordered a burger that smelled so incredibly good I seriously thought of going back into the kitchen and greedily eating it right off the grill.  This place truly makes your teeth tingle with anticipation.

It was interesting to learn about this very unique venture.  There is no tipping. The owner -- a former programmer -- decided to offer his staff a salary and health benefits which is covered by a service charge automatically added to your bill.  If you do tip, that money goes to charities the staff selects.  The walls without chalk boards were covered in beautiful framed photographs taken by refugee children ages 11-16.  The artwork is years ahead of most professional photographs I've seen so check out the website listed below.

The next time you are in San Diego, check out The Linkery and bring an empty stomach.

Website: www.thelinkery.com

Aja Refugee website: http://www.ajaproject.org/

-Bill

Well, I have not posted much lately and am working on some interesting videos I hope to publish soon.  Many of them are at your request.  Please let me know if you find these to be helpful or there is anything I can do to improve them.  I'm thinking about using MSN Soapbox to host new videos so let me know if you have any opinions.

Today I posted some pictures that I took at Earth Day in San Diego.  I took so many pictures it was hard to decide what to post but these pretty much capture it, I think.  It was a little strange having these earthy-crunchy people walking around in their hemp clothes and "Once you go Organic you will never go back" buttons and the only food served in this entire event was hot dogs and hamburgers.  Very strange.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the pictures!

-Bill

TO THE AIRPORT:

• Taxis making up excuses that their machines mysteriously stopped working, requiring you to pay cash.
• Paying for the cab driver to wait curbside at a nearby ATM for you to get the cash to pay them (due to their non-working credit card machines).
• Driving yourself to the airport to learn the central parking area is full and have to spend a half hour parking your car and taking a slow bus through all terminals until they get to yours.
• $25/day parking space at the airport.

 AT THE AIRPORT TO CATCH THE PLANE:

• Cab drivers that made deals with the sleazy paid-by-cash-tip curbside bag check agents.  They let your bags get taken before your right leg hits the pavement.
• Smart people that can’t read a sign that clearly reads “Follow this arrow to the [insert airline here] ticket counter”.  To further draw attention to their confusion, they come to a complete halt right in front of you with no care or attention paid to your stumbling over their bags and being forced to cut across the hall and drop-kick a small child.
• TSA agents with nails longer than your ticket.
• No Starbucks.
• Calling the airline at the airport for a flight change with a voice recognition system that takes direction from Wolf Blitser on CNN instead of you trying to speak with an agent.

AT THE STATION TRYING TO CATCH THE TRAIN:

• Urine smell. 
• Dunkin’ Donuts and no Starbucks.  Sorry Dunkin', but you need to buy quality tea like you do coffee and offer honey just as you do sugar.  Do this, and I promise you will no longer have two space on my Pet Peeve list.
• Smoking allowed outside at the train tracks. 
• Ticket counter clerks with broken speakers and microphones trying to speak with you through an 8” thick plane of bullet proof plexiglass.
• Urine smell.

ON THE PLANE:

• Middle seats.
• Window seats.
• Sitting in the middle seat with people on both sides deciding you do not deserve use of the arm rest.
• Sitting at the window and needing to use the bathroom more than once.
• Fat sales guys who feel they are so important it is okay to shout vulgar epithets in front of woman and children when the flight is delayed.
• Using the bathroom, soaping up your hands and finding the airline forgot to fill up with water.
• Flying cross-continent next to a woman that loves her hair so much it must be flipped every minute or two in such a way stray follicles find their way directly into your mouth, eyes or neck.
• Feeling said stray hair on your neck and not being able to find it.
• Flying first class and dealing with the cattle in the ‘standard cabin’ coming down and using your bathroom.
• Getting an accusatory glance from the same person that ‘dealt it’ next to you and feeling like you must state it was the person that ‘smelled it’ who did the deed.

ON THE TRAIN:

• Fat sales guys that find it critical to speak extremely loud about their very important lives on the cell phone for all to hear.
• Trying to pretend the couple who are just cuddling are really just cuddling without taking pictures or making a special request.
• Doughy pretzels offered as a lunch item in the dining car.
• The scenic sunrise views along the way.  Sunset.  Sunrise. Architectural wonders.  Drying underpants behind the brick building where children play stick ball.

LANDING:

• The attendant telling you it is okay to use your cell phone and then going on for 15 minutes about everything else you cannot do.
• Long jetways and slow-moving walkers on the jetway that stand right in the middle to be sure you cannot pass them.
• Wearing light clothes from your point of origin just for it to be negative 12 at your destination.
• Same as above, but vice-versa.
• Waiting at the baggage claim for ½ hour just to find out the claim was moved with no notice.

LEAVING THE TRAIN:

• Smog and gas smells when getting off the train.
• Getting off at the wrong stop because they are named the same.  Did you know the same trains will stop at Penn Station in New Jersey and Penn Station in New York without making a specific city announcement?
• Urine smells in the station.

AUTOMOBILES:

• Getting to the car rental area just as your – and only you – rental shuttle leaves with no notice of your flailing arms and tired legs.
• Having preferred status at the car rental facility and they forgot to list you.
• Rental cars with unique scents.
• Getting in your car and realizing the cost for your few days of parking cost you a few nights of nice nights on the town.
• Losing your car ticket for the parking garage and paying full price for more days than you parked.
• Parking your car for a long period of time just to find some hipster wrote “clean me” on the rear window of your car.  How cool is he?  I just feel like such a square for not thinking up such a laughable form of vandalism.  “Clean Me”?  That is soooo funny.  I mean no one EVER thought of that before.

HOTELS:

• Big, expensive properties with more restaurants you can imagine but their hours are “Open to Five Minutes Before You Arrived”.
• Getting your room changed from a suite to a crappy single-bed situation.
• European hotels.  I need not say more.
• Lousy airport hotels where the only view is a parking lot with a strange guy who does not blink sitting in a truck looking directly into your window.
• No mini bar.
• Waiting for a wakeup call that never happens.
• Going to your favorite hotel where you are well known as a VIP just to have your colleague who just started traveling get a better room than you.
• Getting out of the shower, pulling out a towel, rinsing your face to open your eyes and realizing the towel had encountered things that even you, with your sick, twisted mind, could imagine.
• Big, thick curtains that won’t let a lick of light in, but never close together enough to prevent a concentrated stream of sunlight into the room that targets your face and burns spots into your retina for the remainder of the day.
• Ironing your clothes naked in the hallway -- because the only available power socket is hidden in the closet – just to have the maid knock once, open the door without a wait and act surprised to see what they hoped for to begin with.
• Seeing said maid when you are fully clothed and wanting to explain you have a spare tire now, but are planning heavy gym time to get back in shape.
• Being happy with yourself to check in at the hotel before a favorite show is on television just to learn the only channel not working is the one with your favorite show.
• Having no metrics whatsoever on what to leave for a tip at various classes of hotels.
• Getting up on time and being fully prepared to face the world.  Only one last thing remains to feel clean and ready to face the world.
• Forgetting your toothbrush.
• Getting a hotel toothbrush that for some reason has the same number of bristles but was designed for long-nosed alligators rather than human beings.
• Cutting yourself with a hotel toothbrush.

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• Multi-level Undo
• Change Highlighting
• Task Drivers
• ... And a Reporting Database with Visual Reporting(!)

Rather than write an article on all these topics, I thought it might be a better idea to step you through the features in a video.  It was designed in Flash and depending on your connection it might take up to a minute or so to begin showing the video.  This is my first video and the audio and video could be better so any thoughts you have on improvements for future videos is greatly appreciated.  For that matter, let me know if there is anything you think would make for a good 15-20 minute video.

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