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Last year, or maybe it was two years ago, I tried to go through this simulation book, Excel Simulations by Dr. Gerard M. Verschuuren, and blog at the same time about it, but it ended up being too much. I was trying to come up with good examples to use with the simulation exercises and…
A little quick note on that issue I had where the vendor’s exported Excel files were not cooperating with Microsoft: my macro no longer could “see” the downloaded files, even when “open”. The security warning message never showed up to say that the file was in Protected View mode. I even created another macro to…
On Wednesday, during lunch break, an article, “Donald Trump didn’t want to be president”, caught my eye and pulled me into the article. It turned out to be excerpts from a tell-all book Fire and Fury by Michael Wolffe, and boy, was it a doozy. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, so, as a…
In my last post I mentioned that I was reading books on design which is something a little different, at least from this blog. So I thought I would write a quick post on why I’m reading about design. There are a lot of things that interest me but two areas that appears to catch…
I read something rather astonishing a couple of weeks ago: Warren Buffett spends at roughly 80% of his day reading. Wow! … Wow, wow, wow! I wish I had a job that allowed me to do that much reading. Although I think most of his reading is newspapers and he’s probably searching for news about…
Time to talk about the tax cut. While the tax cut remains deeply unpopular, there appears to be about 35% ,or thereabouts, who still supports the cut. That 35% number also seems to be the ballpark number of the die-hard Trump supporters: they will support him no matter what. They supported him despite his racial…