Google spreadsheets, SUMIF and $
A little explanation on the SUMIF function in google spreadsheets. Understanding this function will help you understand many other spreadsheet functions.
Building a planning tool with Google docs Part 1
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In these posts, I’ll show you how to build a really basic planning tool in Google Docs.
This tutorial is meant to get you started with using more advanced features of Google spreadsheets. Though it will not touch any of the real complicated stuff.
Let’s get started. Read more
‘Social bookmarking’… awesome
… there’s a lot of crap on the internet 
Stuff’s happenin’
Once more I realize how exciting the whole digital/internet/virtual world is… to me, at least.
Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo!. Amazing, I remember Yahoo being the best search engine around, 5 or 6 years ago. An now, one of the most evil cooperation is trying to take it over. Oh no!
This would mean bad news for Flash because Yahoo is a big Flash-loving company, and Microsoft isn’t… (they even have a flash competitor called ’silverlight’)
Toshiba giving up on HD-DVD. This means that Blu-ray is the official new generation DVD format and in not-too-long we’ll all be watching our high-def movies on Sony Blu-ray discs.
Oddly enough, Toshiba’s stock seems to be going up, instead of down.
Actionscript 4.0 announced. And I have just started getting into Actionscript 3.0.
Tomorrow, my own little company will become an official ‘Holding’, which is a dutch construction of a company owning shares of another company.
All this stuff going on, and we’re all in the middle of it.
Amazing, really.
Tax returns for Apple users only! (this week)
Lol @ Dutch windows users.
The program used for submitting the ‘income tax return’ isn’t working. In Holland, most people submit their ‘income tax information’ in January, I guess the Windows users just have to wait for a bit, because only the Linux and Apple version are working.
Check the worst google-translation ever for proof (while it’s still there):
Dutch Tax website translation
( original )
Zelda DS
Since my brother kinda took over my Nintendo Wii, I now use his Nintendo DS, which is much cooler.
Especially Zelda. Zelda is awesome.
It is a lot less mature than the Zelda’s for N64, GC or Wii. But besides that it is probably made for kids, it features enough fun challenges for tough-guys and pirates like you and me.
The trial of Colonel Sweeto…
After pre-ordering it weeks ago, I finally received this awesome book.
It’s a collection of some of the sickest, funniest and smartes comics I’ve ever read. All by the hand of Nicholas Gurewitch.
Check out his site here.
The book is available on Amazon.
Old school HD’s back in action
About a year ago, I updated my computer gear. Of course, there where no more old-school IDE connections. SATA 4tw and all, but that did leave me with 600GB of unused storage.
Today, I bought 3 very simple IDE/USB interfaces. They are a bit slow, so I won’t use them for any production work. But they are great for storing music, backups and stuff you don’t need all the time.
Hail to the backup…
Last week, I was doing some basic maintenance on a database of one of my clients.
The database houses (among other things) all data for their accounting/bookkeeping software. This software is their ‘bible’ so to speak. It tells them all company and client information from the last 10 years. Whenever they want to know something, they just check that software. Pretty important.
At it again…
I probably lost all my regular visitors and readers by neglecting the fourth attempt at a blog over 6 months ago. But what the hey, let me try again…