Monthly Archives: July 2008

MS Excel – Convert Percentage To Number

I have spent most of today throwing data around in MS Excel. One of the things that I have had to do is to convert percentages into real numbers. In excel percentages are stored as fractions, for example 50% is … Continue reading

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Latest ETL Tool – MS Excel

I have spent all day in MS Excel. I receive excel spreadsheets in a “fairly” fixed format. I need to get this data into Business Objects Xcelsius via another spreadsheet that stores historical records and keeps the data in a … Continue reading

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Monopoly – Good Or Bad ?

Connor (9) arrived back from staying at an aunts with a new version of the board game Monopoly. This one is the “E-Banking” edition. Rather than having stacks of cash to covet or spend, each player gets a “credit card” … Continue reading

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100 Pushups – Week 3 = :(

Ended week 2 on a high ! Target was 124 pushups in the week and I managed 144, what a buzz. My first exhaustion test got me 6 pushups. My second one at the weekend I managed 21 but that … Continue reading

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100 Pushups – Week 1

That’s week one finished, OK it was a day later than planned but I was wiped out last night. Target for week one was 104 pushups, I managed 114. At the start of the week in my exhaustion test I … Continue reading

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BBC News

This made me laugh out loud when I was eating my lunch !

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Protected: XI 3.0 – New Features – Publisher

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Protected: Lessons Learned

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100 Pushups – Take 2

OK This one really didn’t get a chance. The week I started, I ended up being away from home, then had a stressfull week following that. I’m starting this again today. Even if I just continually do week one, it … Continue reading

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Emma is on Flickr

Emma has finally gotten around to registering on Flickr after years of me harrassing her to! She has uploaded some of the photos that she took for her photographic exhibition, have a look by clicking on the photo above.

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