September 1, 2008 – 4:57 pm
ok, to quickly summarize, we have now made it to Chiang Mai and partially unpacked. We were booked in a sleeper carraige on the train, but with the latest civil unrest the trains were all cancelled so we had to catch a bus which was far less … pleasant.
Anyway, we’re here.
August 22, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Today, I’m 29.5 and Glenn 28.5, so by our powers combined, we are 58 together this year. Big 6-0 next year. Sunrise, sunset.
Someone pointed out, I think Blacky, that my blog posts have become more and more random. And fair enough call too. They have.
Operation “Move to Chiang Mai” is underway. We have now bought [...]
August 12, 2008 – 7:00 pm
I’m sure there’s no shame to treating yourself a little bit when you’re down in the dumps. For me, retail therapy is not an expensive exercise, as food is my vice of choice.
Today I wandered down to the Petronas Towers shopping centre and ate a Nando’s burger, fries and coleslaw, then walked around the shopping [...]
August 11, 2008 – 5:57 pm
look, it could probably be a lot of things. It could be the fact that my plane was delayed, so I didn’t finally arrive at my hotel in KL until around 1am. It could be the early start to get some work done before the conference. It could be the tired driver who I had [...]
Dudes, I must be honest with you: today’s blog entry is pretty much about avoiding work, so you should probably not expect the usual high-quality standard of writing you usually get when I deign to post.
“So, Dean, you fine specimen of a man, what’s new?” I hear you ask.
I have plans to attend Microsoft’s Tech.Ed [...]
Say you’ve got a table like this:
A
B
1
Date
Transaction
2
1-Jan
$ 1.20
3
1-Jan
$ 44.00
4
1-Jan
$ 2.50
5
2-Jan
$ 142.00
6
2-Jan
$ 23.00
7
2-Jan
$12,335.00
8
3-Jan
$ 5.00
9
3-Jan
$ 2,354.00
10
4-Jan
$ 65.00
11
6-Jan
$ 7.00
and you want a daily summary of the transactions, where the number of rows per day is not fixed. Tricky.
Using this forumula in cell C2:
=IF(A2=A3,””,SUMIF(A:A,A2,B:B))
and copying it down the page [...]
Not the food markets, I’m talking about the stock market. My “IRL” portfolio is within half a point of it’s break-even point, from 20% down a few weeks ago. I’ve also gone into the black on the Share Market Game, although still a long way behind Blacky. Looking at Blacky’s stocks QGC might be a [...]
I recently “mooched” Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six from Bookmooch, and last night, I finished it. It was pretty good, but long - 850 some pages, and the boring stuff sometimes got in the way. You know how you’re reading one subplot and it’s completely fascinating, and then the author moves to another, more boring, subplot [...]
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” will be streamed, FREE on Drhorrible.com, in mid-July. Specifically:
ACT I went up Tuesday July 15th.
ACT II went up Thursday July 17th.
ACT III (presumably here) will go up Saturday July 19th. (around 5pm QLD time)
All acts will stay up until midnight Sunday July 20th (approximately 5pm Monday, 21 July QLD time). Then they will [...]
Three things.
1. Skyrates
Last night and early this morning, I finished a long-time Skyrates goal: I traded my cargo-kitted and performance-kitted Nomad for a cargo-kitted and performance-kitted Lancaster. That means this to that. Most of Skyrates is trade-based, so the most important statistic is CKPH - Cargo Kilograms per hour, a function of your maximum speed [...]