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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 and pasted them into [...]

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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 was browsing through the
patterns [...]

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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, this also means that I’ve [...]

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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 was get the [...]

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