Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

Here's the scenario... You've put considerable effort into eliminating "outlier" rows from a data table.  Now, you want to...

I used to get head colds and sinus infections in Winter.  But now, thanks to modern air conditioning, I can  suffer from them in Summer, too...

The cap on a bottle of liquid laundry detergent doubles as a measuring cup. Most brands instruct the consumer to "fill to line 1 for ...

One should always examine the Internet Header of a suspicious email.  Yet, when Microsoft upgraded Outlook, this has become more difficult t...

I've been using Org Mode for several years. One Org Mode quirk is that the links in Org files always open in the Emacs editor, by defa...

In " Reverse the Order of Worksheets in an Excel Workbook " I show a VBA module that I wrote in order to reverse the order of seve...

“What is that in Celsius?” asked my European coworker on the other end of an international conference call.  We had started the call by sayi...

I've been a Pandora subscriber since 2006, and I have a couple of well-tweaked stations.  But one of my favorite stations was stuck wit...

If you're running Outlook in an Exchange environment, and the administrator has defined a Retention Policy, you can use the following kl...

The effect of using too much laundry detergent makes for a funny, suds-filled scene in the movies.  But the real problem occurs the next tim...

“ I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local government...

Suppose you have a set of data points that represent some quantity in a volume.  It could be temperature in a solid, for example.  How can ...

CLCL is the clipboard manager that I prefer.  But it’s lacking in extensive documentation, at least for those who don’t know Japanese.  I f...

Let's say you need to create a VBA function to use in a spreadsheet. Where do you put it? Quick answer, put it in a module. In Excel,...

If you work in the USA tech industry, you've probably been asked to sign a non-disclosure / non-compete agreement with a new employer.  ...

In a previous post , I wondered if my computer problems were due to AntiVirus interfering with Windows Update. Perhaps.  But there's d...

For over two thousand years, engineers had to contend with manufacturing issues.  We're still doing that today... "... its design...

The following links are listed in Data Visualization for Dummies : https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ http://visual.ly/ http://chartporn...

I've written about how to force Excel to use absolute paths in its links by specifying the Hyperlink Base   That works in PowerPoint, to...

I've been using and recommending AVG AntiVirus Free for over a decade.  Whenever a new computer's trial version of Symantec AntiViru...