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Links and Other Trivia for October 3, 2008
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2008. All rights reserved.
Some items worthy of note . . .
It’s mostly photography, not data visualization, but it’s still pretty cool.
Internet cartoon XKCD captures my views on fancy ringtones. Yes, I’m a Luddite too; my phone rings the old-fashioned way.
Speaking of Waterfalls, here are some nice wallpapers for your desktop: Waterfalls, Most Beautiful Waterfalls, and Waterfalls.
I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP for Excel again, the eighth year in a row that I’ve received this honor.
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Posted: Friday, October 3rd, 2008 under Links.
Comments: 12
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Comment from Tony
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:31 am
Congratulations on the MVP Award!
Comment from Dick Kusleika
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:40 am
OT: Your RSS feed now only shows summaries instead of full posts.
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:58 am
Tony - Thanks.
Dick - Thanks for the heads up. I was fooling around the other day and forgot to set it back. Then I forgot where the setting was.
Comment from Rabin
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 3:12 pm
Hi Jon
First Congratulations to you on the MVP Award
I found your website today. and guess how?? I got some traffic from your site, and when I check it back I got this post and the links. This is so nice of you that you post that link. Can I ask you were did you find that pages?
from google or anything like that?
as my blog is very new I just want to know this traffic sources.
Thank you.
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 3:39 pm
Hi Rabin -
Funny story, actually. I wrote an Excel utility for creating Waterfall Charts (see below). I wrote a blog post about the utility, submitted the post to Digg, and Digg included one of your pages as possibly having duplicate content. I decided to share the pictures on my site.
Comment from Chandoo
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 7:23 pm
Congrats on getting the MVP award once again .. :)
Comment from Tony Rose
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 9:12 pm
Sorry about so much white space after my comment. Not sure how that happened.
Comment from Rabin
Time: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 2:55 am
That’s great
thanks, hope that happens again :)
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8:08 am
Tony -
That’s a problem with the theme I’m using. The first comment never ends above the bottom of the sidebar, and I don’t know enough CSS or PHP or whatever to fix it. Most of my posts are long enough to avoid the problem.
Comment from jenmoocat
Time: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 8:34 pm
Congrats on the MVP.
Definitely deserved.
My graphs have been the subject of oohs and ahhs since I found your site.
And it has actually expanded my mind — getting me to think about how to “trick” Excel into doing what I want……
Comment from Bob
Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 5:36 am
Hi Jon,
Well done on the MVP. I can’t imagine how sorry the state of affairs would be in the Excel world, and your specialty - charting, without the obvious skill and the joy you seem to bring to your work.
Congratulations.
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7:43 am
Thanks for all the good thoughts. I probably earned the MVP because I like helping people, and because I share what I can with my web site and blog.
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