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It is the year 2008, we are half way through. Excel 2003 is 5 years old. Stop using it please.
Why? Excel 2003 has the old “limits” - 65,000 rows, 256 columns, memory limits etc. Excel 2007 on the other hand, 1 million row limit, etc etc. That coupled with the way pivot tables work [...]

Four years ago, I started this blog. It was on blogspot, and then migrated to wordpress on HostMySite, then moved to my own server, but all the posts are here. I have had many different themes and it actually is fun to look back on posts and see what I was doing at the time.
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Gas. Oil. We pretty much all use it some way shape or form every day. Driving our cars is the big one. Other things use oil (plastics, heating oil, etc). It is hard to find someone not using some oil in some way.
During the height of the Democratic Primary. Hillary Clinton introduced she wanted to [...]

You probably have heard the term “Habeas Corpus” in the news the last week or so. Both sides, fighting it out, saying they are right. Well, what is Habeas Corpus and why should you even care?
Some background. Wikipedia says:
Habeas Corpus is the name of a legal action, or writ, through which a person can seek [...]

A MacBook Pro. Yes, and it is awesome.
So the story, my Dell laptop was humming along fine, but then recently I heard some clicking, and was like WTF? Asked Emily “Did this fall on the ground or something”… “No… but I dropped a glass on it”… Oh man, and you know, one month after [...]

Now that the Democratic Primary is over, its time to come clean. I mean, really, I want to get what I deserve, and this video tells the whole story..

Since my tech stuff is, well, lacking, and I don’t have bag to grab out of, politics comes next. I have always been interested in politics, if [...]

We have all been there. At some bar, karaoke bar, whatever, and just watched people sing. There are really good people, really bad people, weird songs, good songs, and everything in between. But over time, I have come to pick up the 4 stages of Karaoke Songs.
Why am I even thinking about this? Well [...]

“We Should Be Able To Deliver Bottled Hot Water To Dehydrated Babies” - John Sydney McCain, June 3rd 2008

All I can say is, WTF. And this is funny. This quote might be the defining moment of his campaign.

Well, new job is going OK. Not much to report really, as you can see from the lack of posting. No new tech or anything interesting leads to… well, boring posts like this. Basically I am knee deep in an older ERP system, and doing report mods and small .NET applications to automate some things, [...]