Posted on 21 October 2008
This week Sachin Tendulkar became the highest run getter in Test Cricket. There has never been another player of the game who has broken more records, won more fans and shown greater humility both on and off pitch than him. A true epitome of what sports is all about.....the spirit of playing hard and playing fair.
(Image courtesy: www.extramirchi.com www.i224.photobucket.com)
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Posted on 21 October 2008
This article shows three methods using which you can send email using VBA in Excel. You can download a
working example of sending email using vba in Excel here.
Excel allows you to create the best-in-class charts, work with large amount of data and data sources work with images, flowcharts and what not. And if that was not enough, you can use the inbuilt vba editor to automate sending emails from ...
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Posted on 18 October 2008
....I don't know what specific pleasure women derive out of decorating their hands :-) .....
After the damage was done (financially speaking) while she was busy admiring the result of a few hours of effort....I was thinking to myself...with that kind of money I could've added a bit more RAM to my box, changed the air filter,........
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Posted on 18 October 2008
Location: Hiranandani Mumbai
Best Approach: Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road
How to locate: Just look out for the colored flags atop the hill.
Address: Lake Meadows Hotels & Resorts Pvt. Ltd.
Level One, Haiko Mall,
Hiranandani Gardens, Powai,
Mumbai - 400 076
Telephone : +91 22 65172735/36 Fax : +91 22 25797852
Opens: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on all days (now till 9:30pm)
Cost: Rs 140 for 4 laps, Rs 180 for 6 and Rs 250 for 10.
Overall the Hakone ...
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Posted on 18 October 2008
Heatmaps allow us to visualize the change in a particular variable over a certain period of time or area. I found some neat heatmaps that were worth sharing.
Person scanning a website
(Courtesy:
Tobii.com)
Change in economic indicators under each President
(Courtesy:
NY Times)
UV Levels across the globe on 18-OCT-2008
(Courtesy:
Temis.nl)...
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Posted on 18 October 2008
You think you've entered the right formula and yet you get the dreaded #N/A error on the sheet.....well....here are some useful tips to get you through the vlookup blues!
=vlookup(value_to_match, range_to_find_this_value, which_column_to_return , try_to_approximate_if_no_match)
(Delimited) text being compared to numbers
If you have imported data from a plain text file (a .txt file), your data may most likely have numbers which have been converted to string. Excel will still display the values ...
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Posted on 16 October 2008
By Ryan Paul | Published in www.arstechnica.com
Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. Major highlights are:
1. Adobe Flash is used on roughly 35 percent of all web sites.
2. The XMLHttpRequest scripting mechanism, one of the cornerstones of Ajax, is used on roughly 3.2 percent of the indexed web sites. So Ajax is growing, though not commesurate to the hype surrounding it.
3. The study found ...
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Posted on 15 October 2008
Beating a distinguished field of writers such as Sebastian Barry (The Secret Scripture), Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies), Linda Grant (The Clothes on Their Backs), Steven Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole) and Philip Hensher (The Northern Clemency), 33 year old Aravind Adiga won the Booker for his debut novel White Tiger.
Aaditya was born in Chennai, India and in Sydney, Australia. He went on to study at the Columbia University ...
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Posted on 15 October 2008
The Texas A&M University's department of entomology holds a yearly competition for images taken by their department followed by a public exhibition.
Check out the large size pic of a
red worker fire ant (Photographer: Freder Medina) and the
Monarch Butterfly (Photographer: Spence Behmer)
There are some good photographs at the microscopic level in the
Photomicroscopy category
...
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Posted on 13 October 2008
A problem frequently encountered with displaying multiple series with overlapping data points within a single line chart is that they just seem to entangle themselves. To get an idea of all the data point that a series represents, the user has to either mentally segregate it from the rest or click on it to highlight the particular line. The NY Times recently published a chart
How This Bear Market Compares that tries to solve this problem by highlighting ...
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Posted on 11 October 2008
......and sanity is going to prevail soon. I am an eternal optimist and my understanding is that the extreme volatility seen in the global markets signals that the capitulation is coming to an end. 6 months from today, we will looks back at this point and think what a fantastic opportunity it represented.
After the worst is over, the markets will return to a level ...
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Posted on 09 October 2008
Those who’ve worked with elaborate multi-worksheet dashboards would realize the usefulness of adding a customized menu option. Apart from other things, a customized menu option can be used to guide the user to specific portions of an excel spreadsheet. For example, if you have a long report consisting of multiple charts, pivots, images and data fields, you may want to spare the reader the effort of locating the most useful (or important) portions by creating a new menu option and ...
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Posted on 08 October 2008
A waterfall chart is used to represent a set of figures when they all impact the same derived number. A waterfall chart helps to link the individual values to a whole. A profit and loss statement is a good example where the magnitude of each figure has an impact on a derived number (which happens to be Profit in this case).
A colleague of mine recently had a budgeting exercise assigned to him where he had to project the P&L figures ...
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