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Making Outlook Work
For the most part, Outlook works just fine. Of course, my acceptance of the functional level of this Microsoft product probably stems from many years of being forced to use Lotus Notes. Anything works just fine in comparison. However, there … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Workplace
Tagged Default, Deleted Items, Outlook, Snooze, Unread, VBA
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It’s old news now, but about a year ago, the EU (in its infinite wisdom) decided that all European websites needed to inform users that the site uses cookies. Pretty soon, most sites started showing a little pop-up at the … Continue reading
How to Sell Gardening Equipment to Males
This is an ad I saw on Friday evening – it’s for a Fiskars Weed Puller. Go on, have a look, by clicking here. It’s not often that something attracts my attention so much that within 15 minutes I’ve looked … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Shopping, Technology
Tagged Advertising, Fiskars, Garden tool, Pump-action shotgun, Weed puller, Weeds
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Modern Reminiscences
Do you have a computer game that you played when you were a kid, that you still think back to every now and then? Perhaps something that you really struggled though, but eventually beat, giving you a sense of great … Continue reading
Spreadsheets of the Night
I’ve been working with some spreadsheets at the office lately. These aren’t your simple, solitary spreadsheets which are content to sit in a corner of your hard drive and do their thing on their own. They’re not even the sort … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Technology, Workplace
Tagged Excel, facebook, Financial Crisis, friends, Humour, links, Pivot table, Spreadsheet, Technology
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A Bit Slow on the Uptake
Those who know me reasonably well will attest to the fact that I’m seldom a forerunner. I’m never in the queue at the Apple store, or ahead of the technology curve, or on the cutting edge of interesting pursuits. I … Continue reading
When four-wheel steering is a bad thing
I hope you’ll pardon my rant, but here’s something that really annoys me. British shopping trolleys. You’d think that when the inventor of the shopping trolley thought about how to make it easy to use, he’d have had a quick … Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Shopping, Technology
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Technodroid
I wouldn’t have thought I’d have been writing an article on cellphone technology in this space, but here goes. The reason is that I have a spanking little Android phone in my grubby little paws and, to be honest, I … Continue reading
