Determine Travel Location

How do you determine a travel location and what to do???
lonelyplanet.com, tripadvisor, com, any other suggestions?

How to Plan for a Vacation

Here are some of my thoughts on how to plan a vacation, next step is to add the sites and places that I used for preparing for the vacation.

1. Find your destination
2. Set your date
• If you don't have a date in mind and you are flexible, maybe look at the fare and the place you want to go first then set a date.  I typically will look at the destination site to see what event there is around the target fly dates.  
3. Watch for the airfare special
• I use google.com/flights to look at the flight cost.  There is the functionality to alert you when the fare change price.  If you like to fly Southwest, southwest pricing will not show on the google site, but flight schedule will.  Typically Southwest has sale every Tuesday.

• Once you find the flight and airlines you want to take, check for the best time you want to travel.  If you have credit card that give you points or frequent flyer points of an airline, Check your credit card for points used on reward travel vs airline frequent flyer points.  For example, using ultimate rewards travel by Chase Sapphire,  SNA to DEN is 35K points for round trip.  When logged into united.com, it cost 37.5K pts for round trip.  Every little bit of saving will help :)
• If you knew the airline you want to take and you don't have their credit card for awhile, it may be helpful to apply for their credit card and you will get bonus pts.  However, typically you will need to spend about 3-5K in the first 3 month before getting the points, so you will need to plan early for that.
1. Watch for the hotel special
2. Find events around your vacation date and place
3. Find activities for your travel companion
4. Find restaurants you want to be
5. Find attractions that is very unique to the local
6. Set the idea route.
7. Set your plan for going to the airport.

Lottery Number Stats

Lottery is purely random in theory.  However, does Random Generator get more money or Same Repeat Number or the Most or Least Frequent Number wins the prize.

Tasks:

1. Decide on the lottery, http://www.calottery.com.  Using the simplest Fantasy 5 first.

• Power Ball
• 5 (1-69) + Power ball (26)
• Mega Millions
• 5 (1-75) + Mega (15)
• Super Lotto Plus
• 5 (1-47) + Mega
• Winning Combination
• 5 + Mega
• 5
• 4 + Mega
• 4
• 3 + Mega
• 3 
• 2 + Mega
• 1 + Mega
• Mega
• Fantasy 5
• 5 (1-39)
• Total Possibilities: 575757
• Possible Winning Combination: 63337 
• Winning Combination
• 5 - 1 - 1 in 575757
• 4 - 170 - 1 in 3387
• 3 - 5590 - 1 in 103
• 2 - 57576 - 1 in 10

2. Get all the historic data from calottery.com
3. Run model with

• same set of 5 number
• previous draw number
• most frequent
• in 6 months
• in 12 months 
• least frequent
• in 12 months
• in 24 months
• random number

4. Compare the winning.

Why buy expensive USB Charger

Here is a good article about buying an expensive USB Charger.
A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best- Ken Shriff.

there is old saying, you get what you paid for.  When there are things selling for $2, when someone else is selling for $20, there has to be a reason.

Family time product

To help promote family quality time for the professionals who may not have time for kids.

Face+

Is there a tool or application which combines facebook and Google with a single interface.
For example, I can use Google for public, but Facebook for Family.  

Google All the time

Using Google Flight to first identify the cheapest flight possible.  Google offer a very useful function to show the $ and how price changes throughout the date.  Using this, it provides a quick way to identify the most ideal time to fly.