I’ve been working with Excel a lot these past few months. At least half my time these days is spent writing and running spreadsheets and interpreting the results I get from them. In many cases, I run a lengthy batch of calculations overnight and then have Excel produce a pivot table and save the results [...]
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What I want
19May07I’ve become a pretty heavy del.icio.us user (lookie-loo, my bookmarks for all to see –>). It’s wonderfully convenient having them available from any computer I’m at, and one less thing to worry about backing up; since 2000, I think I’ve lost locally stored bookmarks about 4 times. Plus, they’re tagged any way you want them, [...]
My Desktop
18Feb07For those curious what Vista looks like on an older laptop, without Aero…
Vista!
15Feb07Seems I’ve permanently broken Ubuntu. I’m not sure quite what happened — I was switching my partitions around so that /home would be off on its own, and the next thing I knew, half my documents were gone and Kubuntu wasn’t booting (’kdestartupconfig’ has troubles, apparently). Anyway, I salvaged my Windows installation and tried starting [...]
Grr…ClickTale
22Jan07Argh, I’m getting sick of this. I came across ClickTale today, an Israeli startup that provides really detailed web analytics for websites. They offer webmasters the opportunity to track every click and keystroke a user makes on a webpage, and they even compile those sessions into videos that you can watch to see how the [...]
Continuing a recent trend of doing things I should have done long ago (switching to Opera, swing dancing, paying attention to classes), I have switched from Windows to Linux. Yes, finally, the day has arrived, and it’s a bigger deal than you think, given that: I once actively (well, semi-actively) pimped Microsoft software as a Student [...]
I gotta say, I’m pretty pissed off with IE 5/6 now. I didn’t bother looking at the new theme with it and it turns out now that it looks pretty crappy. Well known problems, such as the transparent PNG issue and CSS incompatibilities make this such a massive headache. On this blog, for example, the [...]
Brave New Economy
13Oct06Wow, this New Economy stuff just gets more and more interesting. First, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought out MySpace for a massive $580 million. In recent months, that’s been called a bargain. In fact, it has been, given that Google’s paid $900 million for advertising rights on the site, making Murdoch a 55% return in his [...]
Big update
06Oct06I’ve been busy lately, what with school finally starting and Ramadan and all. I’m just posting a few bullet points for now, and then a description of life at LSE so far will follow tomorrow, IA. You need to read this article by Uri Avnery. Go ahead, read it, I’ll wait. It’s worth your time. [...]
On Wordpress
23Sep06Well, my 1-year experiment with Typo is over. It wasn’t all bad, but eventually I got fed up of having to babysit my blog. And in the meantime, Wordpress caught up with the only real functional advantages of Typo (AJAX integration). The migration has been fairly smooth thus far, thanks to SQL from Stuart Johnston [...]
Quick Hits
23Sep06There’s been some interesting stuff in the news recently: A guy traded a red paperclip for a house. This is just pure genius. A funny follow-up on what might result if one started with an iPod. Microsoft mulls offering a web-based productivity package. As pointed out on Slashdot, this certainly isn’t conclusive yet, but even so one [...]
As Nelly would say, hurrr we go. I’ve tested the script several times in the last few days and all the bugs I’ve come across have been quashed, I’m pleased to say. The trickiest one had to do with something caused by that most evil of Clearcase objects, the symlink. Basically, if you have a symlink [...]
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