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Getting physical again

Real Angry Birds In the toy store yesterday, I came across something odd. Physical games based on virtual ones. We all know how to play Angry Birds on our smartphones, Ipads etc – but here […]

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if this then that… for vampires

I came across ifttt.com (if THIS then THAT) the other day. Essentially it’s a simple way creating a trigger based on some event such as tweet mentioning you, or a facebook upload (THIS) and so […]

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Ramblings web site has a new look

Ramblings web site has a new look Just spent a little bit of time on Google Sites cleaning up the ramblings web site. I think navigation should be a little cleaner.    

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Getting Started Series

Looking at Google Analytics Data for my site, I notice that there are 2 distinct populations. Those that look and read through a project article (5-10 minutes) and those that stay a few seconds on […]

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A formula to show diminishing returns

Diminishing returns for more effort You will be very familiar with the law of diminishing returns, where you get a lot of payback for your initial efforts (sometimes called ‘low hanging fruit’), then you have […]

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Creating Excel Ramblings group on Google Groups

Google Groups Since I get a lot of correspondence from people who have downloaded stuff, I thought it might be useful to create a group  with this tagline. ‘This group is for those with Excel or […]

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Topics under consideration

What next Thinking about what to work on next for the Excel Ramblings site, I wondered how I could pull together the work on JSON along with google visualization serialization to open up access to […]