Microsoft Office Excel cannot find the data you’re searching for.
DaleI’m doing some analysis of Help Desk data, and I often use Excel for this task. Now I know a helpdesk caller did log a problem with the subject “five…
Short collection of interesting things
The Three Laws Of Consulting, via Alik Levin's MSDN BLog "In spite of what your client may tell you, there's always a problem." "No Matter how it looks at first,…
Wisefaq Word Cloud
Just tapped my blog url into Wordle, and it generated this Word Cloud. Interesting.
The other chair goes round and round in circles.
From an office in Alice Springs. Two kinds of government chair correspond with the two kinds of minister: one sort folds up instantly and the other sort goes round and…
Trade and airline magazines
We could tell whether the boss had travelled by the latest off-the-wall idea Software as a service! Off-shoring! Calculating carbon usage of software! On the last point, there are people…
On critics
There is a quote which basically says something like “Criticism without suggestions for improvement is mean, nasty and unhelpful.” Of course there are exceptions, such as Politicians Logic: "Politician's logic:…
Paintshop Pro opens in Browse Picture mode.
Which is another way of saying Thumbnail view. Annoying if you are wanting to open a picture file for editing. My fix? Check the Default entry for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Applications\psp.exe\shell\ open\command and…
On beauty
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no…
If I close my eyes …
(yes, it’s back to the doghouse)
ASCII Art
Dot-matrix printers, and the ASCII character set, combine to mark great computer drawing. The Mona Lisa ASCII art is the best example I ever saw. ASCII Man demonstrates animated GIFS,…