Periodic Table of the Elements
I remember in high school, and again in college, leraning about the periodic table of the chemical elements.

Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev is credited with creating the first periodic table in 1869. He laid out the elements by atomic weight, and started a new row when the chemical properties of the [...]

Chad Orzel recently graced the blogosphere with his diatribe, Why Does Excel Suck So Much? He goes into Excel’s shortcomings in great detail, starting with its graphic capabilities. He starts by displaying a typical chart turned in by his introductory physics students, showing the results of an experiment to measure how the strength of a [...]

John Walkenback pointed me to The Digital Home Video: What’s up with Microsoft Excel? in his post What’s Up With Don Reisinger? Despite John’s warning, I watched the video. It was unprofessionally produced, the announcer (Don Reisinger) was ill-prepared, and he whined about all kinds of topics, like the puppy he’s getting, his honeymoon, and [...]

From Ross at Methods in Excel, in “Microsoft, you just don’t get office developers don’t you?”

VBA Macro Person
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the insulting tone, or the fact that They Don’t Get It. I haven’t moved to dot-net because in four years I’ve had exactly two potential clients ask me to develop something in [...]

Update (11 April): It’s been a week since I switched hosting companies, and aside from some minor start up issues, the web site and the blog have been performing admirably.
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So I’m partially back in business. After getting no help over the phone support and no responses to my increasingly irate emails, I finally received an [...]