Comments on: Links and Other Trivia for October 3, 2008

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:31:45 +0000

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.

By: Thom Mitchell

Thom Mitchell — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:05:28 +0000

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.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:43:44 +0000

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.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:36:48 +0000

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.

By: jenmoocat

jenmoocat — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:34:55 +0000

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……

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:08:31 +0000

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.

By: Rabin

Rabin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:55:47 +0000

That’s great
thanks, hope that happens again :)

By: Tony Rose

Tony Rose — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:12:35 +0000

Sorry about so much white space after my comment. Not sure how that happened.

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:23:54 +0000

Congrats on getting the MVP award once again .. :)

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:39:26 +0000

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.