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Another VBA question
I am trying to automate our transmittal register. Transmittals are saved in a folder with the date, the sequence number (a fixed format) and the title. There is an Excel register of these folders which also contains this information, and I want to hyperlink it because it's quicker to access the folders that way ( Read more... ) -
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Nigel Farage of UKIP harangues our new un-elected head of stateI suspect this is going to start an argument, either here or more likely on my facebook, where it will be RSS'd, but I don't care. Whatever you've read about this, WATCH IT before you make up your mind ( Read more... ) -
ID cards
The Home Office, two Prime Ministers and a number of Home Secretaries have claimed on numerous occasions that the ID cards will keep us safe and protect us from identity theft. Questioned on their security, they assure the public that the cards will be robust.
So, it seems to me that Liberty, No2ID and the press at large are missing the ( Read more... ) -
Geometry/Excel problem
Consider this problem ( Read more... ) -
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I have finally acted on something I've been meaning to do for a while. For various reasons unrelated to the story, I was in Tai Po today. Tai Po is in Hong Kong's New Territories, most of the way to the Mainland. It's a pretty flat area, and also pretty spread out, so bicycles are popular there.
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A chinese song
One song I've been listening to a lot lately is 爱如潮水 (Love like the tides) by Jeff Chang.
Chinese lyrics together with romanisation and translation may be found here: Ting Dong.
Jeff Chang's original 1993 video (with karaoke accompaniment, sorry about that):
Jacky Cheung covering it live:
I'm not sure which version I prefer. Jacky's is very ( Read more... ) -
Phone call
*ring ring ( Read more... ) -
Sentenced
I went to the dentist for my annual check up - everything is fine - and to ask about my wisdom teeth. She looked at the X-ray for a while and said "whatever's causing you pain, it's not them". So the next day I went to the doctor's. He took a look, and putting his finger on the joint made me say "ah". OUCH. Apparently I have TMJ arthritis, which as ( Read more... )
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