This site under reconstruction.
(This is NOT a celebration! It’s just a notice of the passing of time.) Well, I didn’t realize one year has passed. I thought the lockdowns began sometime around March 17th which would be sometime next week but the actual pronouncement by the WHO organization that the coronavirus had achieved pandemic status apparently happened on…
As I change over my data sources from the Covid Tracking Project to another source, mainly the CDC, I feel like I’m flying blind. That’s a weird feeling, but it appears that I will be in this weird feeling mode as I wrestle with the new sites. Meanwhile, sometime last week this article from the…
Last night as I was updating my coronavirus data, I learned that March 7 was to be the last day for the Covid Tracking Project. Man, that was a shocker. Although, as I thought about it, it is not surprising. The Covid Tracking Project was a volunteer project hosted by The Atlantic news media. According…
I may have mentioned this idea before in another blog post but it’s worth repeating again because it is simple enough. It has to do with VLOOKUP. The layout for this function is: VLOOKUP(lookup value, table array, column index number, true/false) Example: =VLOOKUP(C5,Table!B2:I53,2,FALSE) Column index number is usually hard coded in as a number and…
Texas and Mississippi governors announced yesterday that the mask mandates were going to end: Mississippi today and Texas March 10. Texas is also going to open business up 100%. In regards to the masks, I don’t think that is a good idea and in regards to businesses, it’s a damn if you do and damn…
There’s a lot of talk about the need to be creative in business in this new world that we are entering. One of the skills you got to have is to be “creative”. I would imagine that a lot of people, when they think of creativity, they think of artists, musicians, actors – that kind…