Author Archives: dougaj4

Geometry for Joiners

Posted on 03/04/2012 by dougaj4

A question came up on the ABC Self-Service-Science Forum, asking for a solution to find the dimensions of a diagonal brace looking like the diagram below: The solution is not as simple as it might look because the angle of … Continue reading →

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Another Post About Everything

Posted on 27/03/2012 by dougaj4

We had a post about everything from xkcd before, but this one is a bit more sophisticated.  You can zoom in from this: down to this: and everything in between, at HTwins.net (if you get an ad for a game, click on … Continue reading →

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All men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them

Posted on 14/03/2012 by dougaj4

The YouTube video of A Sailor’s Life by the Fairport Convention contains the image shown below: I have just discovered that the words are taken from the Leornard Cohen song Suzanne, but of the origin of the image I have … Continue reading →

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Writing Arrays to the worksheet – VBA function

Posted on 12/03/2012 by dougaj4

Previous posts have looked at the VBA code for efficiently writing a VBA array to the spreadsheet as quickly as possible, most recently here. I have now put this code in a function that can be conveniently called from any … Continue reading →

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More from the Former Love …

Posted on 07/03/2012 by dougaj4

… with video directed by Kerinne Jenkins (Click on Vimeo to visit site, or click play, then full screen button: Dancing in Silence – The Former Love from Kerinne Jenkins on Vimeo.

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