The news reports are full of pictures of burning police cars, and the streets full of broken glass. It’s depressing, but Stephen Harper just made his case for the $1B security bill. Doesn’t it seem like security has a disproportionate cost, though? Let’s review the damage: no major injuries, some broken windows, four or five […]
Today is my 6th wedding anniversary. I am the luckiest man alive, for many reasons, but here is some very specific proof:
A sparkline is a miniature line graph that shows trending information over a time period. It is designed to be shown next to the name of a data type in a table of data to show a quick “at a glance” reference of how the data is trending over time. Microsoft is introducing sparklines as […]
Tagged excel, sparklineWell, the garden is looking pretty good! The combination of lots of rain and lots of sun has the grass growing mightily, and the beds we installed last summer are shaping up nicely. Yay! Plus, the gardener’s company is named Quercus, which is pleasing.
Anne is home from a brief conference in St. John’s, reporting that the weather was freezing, the food was bad, the B&B was too far from the conference, and she had a great time. There was apparently dancing. Here, there was less dancing, but otherwise things were good. It was very nice to see Kelly […]
Welcome to my newly updated blog. I’ve finally switched from Blogger (which no longer supports posting to hosted sites through ftp) to WordPress (which Dreamhost set up easily for me) and I have all my old posts migrated and updated already. If I get really ambitious I might start working on getting a new photo […]
Dad wasn’t feeling well, so Mum & I went for a walk in the valley without him.