Author Archives: dougaj4

Pie charts all the way down

Posted on 07/02/2010 by dougaj4

xkcd post number 688 shows charts of the proportion of black ink in the charts in xkcd post number 688, and it has in the chart on the right a plans of the locations of the charts in xkcd post … Continue reading →

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Hello World (again)

Posted on 02/02/2010 by dougaj4

Over at Daily Dose of Excel Dick has been asking for suggestions for excellent training, to which Jan Karel Pietersen replied that training should be relevant to the task at hand, and that “hello world” examples are useless. John Walkenbach responded … Continue reading →

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She Moved Through the Fair

Posted on 27/01/2010 by dougaj4

“She Moved Through the Fair” (or “She Moves Through the Fair”) is a traditional Irish folk song. Here are three very different versions. The first, simple perfection, unaccompanied from Anne Briggs The second an orchestrated version from Harpist Loreena McKennitt, with … Continue reading →

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Reinforced Concrete Moment-Curvature – 3; Restrained Shrinkage and Creep

Posted on 23/01/2010 by dougaj4

The previous post in this series provided Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) to find the strain in a concrete section due to unrestrained creep and shrinkage.  In this post the effect of restraint of the creep and shrinkage strains by … Continue reading →

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Good practice, best practice, or just practice?

Posted on 15/01/2010 by dougaj4

Browsing the ‘net this morning I found the “Golden Rules” listed below at Ozgrid.com The rules are described as things that “should not be optional”, which seemed to me in some cases to be going way too far, since for many … Continue reading →

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