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Periodic Table of What??
by Jon Peltier
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Periodic Table of the Elements
I remember in high school, and again in college, learning about the periodic table of the chemical elements.
Image of Periodic Table of the Elements from Elements Database removed at their request. The image above was created in Excel by me, so it falls under the Creative Commons license of this blog.
Russian [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 under Rant.
Comments: 4
Does Excel “Suck”?
by Jon Peltier
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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 [...]
Posted: Monday, March 23rd, 2009 under Rant.
Comments: 39
CNet Expert on Excel
by Jon Peltier
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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 [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 under Rant.
Comments: 3
I guess it’s supposed to be funny
by Jon Peltier
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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 [...]
Posted: Monday, March 24th, 2008 under Rant.
Comments: 5
I’m back (I think)
by Jon Peltier
Peltier Technical Services, Inc., Copyright © 2010.
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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 [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 under Rant.
Comments: 8

















