Links and Other Trivia for October 3, 2008
by Jon Peltier
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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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: 14
Comments
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.
Comment from Thom Mitchell
Time: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 5:05 pm
Kudos on MVP status again, Jon! I have always appreciated your willingness to teach and share your vast knowledge and experience with the rest of the world.
You may be interested to know that today I have decided to give up on a grand experiment: Open Office. I have given it a two-month trial since I had to replace my main laptop. I was curious about OO and I wanted to have a response for my students who, whether they are cost-conscious or simply wish to be unconventional, were Open Office users. Password protection has been the greatest frustration and I’m weary of .xls formats and .ods formats all over the place.
Comment from Jon Peltier
Time: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 8:31 am
Hi Thom -
Reading the archives, eh?
I gave OO a couple hours last fall, but it didn’t show me enough in that time to motivate me to give it a longer trial.
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