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In 2010, John Meyer posted to the Microsoft Excel Developers List EXCEL-L about Don McMillan's hilarious video How NOT to use Powerpoi...

In my posting "Earth falls toward a black hole and everyone dies" , I said that the science-fiction generator it describes works b...

The integer 6174 is also known as Kaprekar's constant . According to Wikipedia, it is notable for the following property: Take any fou...

In my post "The Programmer as Essayist" , I quoted the famous computer scientist Donald Knuth on literate programming. I now want...

I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering progra...

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This post wasn't going to be about spreadsheets, and then I realised that it would be. This is the first time I've created a blog in...