Author Archives: dougaj4

Larkin Poe

Posted on 11/03/2022 by dougaj4

Larkin Poe is an American roots rock band originally from north Georgia, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee,[1] and fronted by sisters Rebecca Lovell (born January 30, 1991) and Megan Lovell (born May 12, 1989). Featuring strong southern harmonies, heavy electric guitar riffs, and slide guitar, they are … Continue reading →

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Display Matplotlib animations in Excel

Posted on 28/02/2022 by dougaj4

The latest version of pyxll (5.4.0) allows animations generated in Matplotlib to be simply copied to Excel. A spreadsheet with the examples shown below, and the associated Python code can be downloaded from: Animations2.zip The screenshot below shows the simple … Continue reading →

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Free resources for earthquake design in Australia

Posted on 27/02/2022 by dougaj4

… and other regions with low to moderate seismicity: The SRIA’s free pdf Guide to Seismic design and detailing of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Australia is available from the link below. It was published in 2016 and was a precursor … Continue reading →

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Rounding to significant figures

Posted on 17/02/2022 by dougaj4

Edited 19th Feb 22, following comment from Larry Schuster Excel does not have a function to round numbers to a specified number of significant numbers, and (rather to my surprise) neither does Python. It is not too hard to write … Continue reading →

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Clearing OneDrive download files in Android

Posted on 13/02/2022 by dougaj4

I recently found that downloaded files on OneDrive on my Android pad had almost filled my storage space to capacity, and that the procedure to delete them was not at all obvious. I eventually found a link with detailed instructions … Continue reading →

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