Posted in All, Net Working on Dec 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Now this is obscure: the 1904 date system in Excel. I was working with a spreadsheet in which I was trying to create a projection of a larger spreadsheet. I.e., I want to be able to share just a portion of the larger spreadsheet — so I copied the relevant cells from the larger workbook [...]
Posted in All, Knitting, Net Working on Nov 18th, 2008 Comments Off
The other day, with some new laceweight yarn in hand, I was browsing for patterns for shrugs. (I could make a lace stole, but I think it would be nice to have a colourful shrug to wear over a sleeveless dress, as an alternative to having to balance drapey fabric all evening). More specifically, I [...]
Posted in All, Net Working on Nov 13th, 2008 Comments Off
I recently installed NoScript as an add-on to Firefox. I observed the Firefox application randomly running my CPU up to 80% usage and holding, and I was pointed at scripts as a likely culprit. Indeed — as soon as I started blocking web page scripts, my Firefox process CPU consumption dropped below 5%. Of course, [...]
Posted in All, Misc, Net Working on Sep 13th, 2008 Comments Off
Even before there was an Internet that emphasized the value and powerful reach of inter-machine resource sharing and interoperability, there was a basic concept that any given program ought to be able to use data files generated by any other instance of the same program, run on similar hardware. All the user had to do [...]
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