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There’s no denying it. Computer monitors are growing to wild proportions. Have you seen the size of these things lately? Pretty soon, we won’t even be able to control them. We’ll eventually build a monitor so big, it will enslave the human race! Then it will find a way to watch Hulu on us. Oh, cruel fate!
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Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition: “Planets, Bullets, and Numbers…Why Can’t We All Just Get Aligned?”
Have you heard? We’re all doomed! You may have even seen the signs. Well, you may have at least some signs being held by some very “out-there” kind of people wandering the streets in front of your favorite coffee house.
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Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition: “Finding Your Perfect Match…by Using Excel Functions”
Well, it happened again. I’m almost positive I put both socks into the dryer, but only one came out. Tell me: where do the lost socks of the world go when they disappear? The Island of Misfit Socks? An exclusive club for singles? Maybe they have their own dating website, and they all go online in the hopes that they’ll find their perfect match. Read the rest of this entry »
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This week’s edition: “Inventing the Wheel was a One-Time Deal”
If you hang around any business office long enough, you’re likely to hear workers uttering the same banal buzzwords or expressions Read the rest of this entry »
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This week’s edition: “The Cybercouth Tiger Returns.”
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our friend and loyal listener, the Cybercouth Tiger. Today he joins us with more tips for how you can observe common courtesy when communicating at light speed.
It is quite rude to reveal the conclusion of a novel or film to someone before they have completed the work on their own. Doing so ruins their enjoyment and may result in them choosing not to see the work through to completion at all. An information dense e-mail message is another story altogether.
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This week’s edition: “The Un-Dirty Dozen: Fighting the War on Computer Slowness!”
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This week’s edition: “A Sign of the Times (New Roman): Exploring the World of Fonts.”
On my commute into the office this morning, I had a striking revelation: we are surrounded by more words than we sometimes realize. This revelation came to me as I slammed on my brakes to avoid striking the Mercedes in front of me; at that point, I was close enough to be able to read its bumper sticker. That just proves that there are so many opportunities to observe this, no matter where you are.
I remember a game one of my early grade school teachers had the entire class play. She had us all line up and then whispered a sentence into the ear of the first in line who in turn whispered it into the ear of the next and so on until the last in line would walk up to the chalk board and write down what they heard. The results were always hilarious and meant to be a lesson in passing along gossip (I think); but oddly enough, I think it is also an apt metaphor for what happens to data in today’s digital world as it gets passed from one program to another, one platform to another, over the World Wide Web, through security and encryption systems, and finally to your desktop, usually into Microsoft Excel, probably the most ubiquitous data cruncher out there today.
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This week’s edition…
“Excel hates me! When 2 + 2 isn’t always 4″
You know, one of the most frustrating (and often the most fascinating) part of using Microsoft Excel has to be just how helpful it tries to be.