My Musings

  • Success from my Explorations!

    Late yesterday’s afternoon, I started to play around with my Excel file to develop a tool that will help me figure out my Sudoku puzzles faster and I succeeded! I actually designed something that will help me solve the easy puzzles. Please note the stress on the word easy. This file only works for easy puzzles. I’m…

  • New Experimental Play

    I had a new idea last week and I was hoping to have something for this week. Alas, last week was not very productive. Between the interminable rain, lack of internet access, a new project and just a general lack of ability to solve things led to an unproductive week. My grand idea was to try…

  • Some Ideas

    I’m reading a book right now called The Road to Reinvention by Josh Linkner about being disruptive and transforming your organization or industry. Right now we are going through a great age of disruption, and you want to be the one doing the disrupting, not the one disrupted. So to do something different tonight, this…

  • Being a Perfectionist

    Last week we finally finished some financial reporting but it took a while because…we go stuck in the details. You know how when you look at some accounting data, you spot an error and you fix your report to make it more correct, and then you spot another error in accounting so your fix your…

  • Pivot Magic

    This is a very short post but I did learn something new about pivot tables. I don’t know if this feature has always been present or just got implemented in Excel 2013, but it is a very, very nifty feature. And in the words of my boss, “It is big.” I learned that you can…