villaajax Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Monday is a bank holiday. I hate my job, when I slump down at my desk at 9am, my mind gets up and wanders off for the day and meets me after work. I honestly couldn't tell you what I did yesterday, I have no recollection what so ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeinMadrid Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 This time next month I'll be in Spain relaxing! Makes revision easier. That and today I have 20+ new twitter followers!! I don't understand it! Sky Atlantic cheers me up as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 ^^ My workmates think that highlighting 2 icons at once is an act of God. Not as bad as one accounts dept I worked for whose manager used to fill in excel cells in black as they did not know about the delete key. A mate of mine, who is an auditor for one of the big 4, told me that one of her colleagues used a calculator to sum columns Failure like this isn't limited to excel. I've had psd's of documents sent to me where confidential information has been blacked out... on a seperate layer. One click and you can read everything you weren't meant to read. I've had that, with word documents! Send it as a PDF you thick clearing in the woods! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 24, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 24, 2011 The combination of booze and music is so **** good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 The combination of booze and music is so **** good. Ever tried MDMA and music Mike ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 24, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 24, 2011 In an unashamedly geeky way, learning a new trick in excel and implementing it into my ridiculously over-engineered Premier League spreadsheet where the bells and whistles have their own bells and whistles. There is nothing wrong with being happy about this. There are times when a complex IF statement has made my day. OK then you've convinced me to expand on it Using the 'offset()' function to dynamically alter the amount of X values in a chart so that there's never a gap at the end. I wanted my sheet to work equally well in an 18 (Bundesliga) or a 20 team league and that was one of the final tweaks that was needed Seriously, if you're doing anything in Excel that requires 3-plus-depth-nested-IFs or VBA or offsets()'s, etc. then you're almost certainly using the wrong tool for the job. Perl (or Python (or Ruby (or even PHP... *shudder*))) plus MySQL (or Postgres (or Firebird (or even Ingres... *shudder*))) are a ton more powerful, more expressive, and more extensible (not to mention more Free). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 In an unashamedly geeky way, learning a new trick in excel and implementing it into my ridiculously over-engineered Premier League spreadsheet where the bells and whistles have their own bells and whistles. There is nothing wrong with being happy about this. There are times when a complex IF statement has made my day. OK then you've convinced me to expand on it Using the 'offset()' function to dynamically alter the amount of X values in a chart so that there's never a gap at the end. I wanted my sheet to work equally well in an 18 (Bundesliga) or a 20 team league and that was one of the final tweaks that was needed Seriously, if you're doing anything in Excel that requires 3-plus-depth-nested-IFs or VBA or offsets()'s, etc. then you're almost certainly using the wrong tool for the job. Perl (or Python (or Ruby (or even PHP... *shudder*))) plus MySQL (or Postgres (or Firebird (or even Ingres... *shudder*))) are a ton more powerful, more expressive, and more extensible (not to mention more Free). This. And megabytes and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I've just added "Carson Yeung" as a friend on FB...it's obviously a Villa fan taking the piss. What makes it cheer me up is the number of Blosers who are his "friend" too...obviously think it's the real dog eater! Bahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I've just added "Carson Yeung" as a friend on FB...it's obviously a Villa fan taking the piss. What makes it cheer me up is the number of Blosers who are his "friend" too...obviously think it's the real dog eater! Bahahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 oddly, the advert doing the rounds of natalie cassidy's "amazing" weight loss and how she is posing like britney spears someone needs to tell her that she could return to her birth weight and she'd still look like she lost a fight with an arctic lorry literally made me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 arctic lorry South American lorries are the worst for making you ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I hear the drivers are all bi-polar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 25, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 25, 2011 I hear the drivers are all bi-polar. :notworthy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Getting a flight back from Florida (8.00 pm take off) last week and finding 3 spare seats in front so me and the Mrs had 3 seats each. Immediately got my stuff on there before anyone else. Slept for 6 hours on and off. This is how flying should be. Never fly with virgin !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 25, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 25, 2011 Getting a 10 bitcent tip for a [presumably well-written and informative] post on a forum that I spent about an hour refining. It's only US$0.73 or GBP0.45, but the appreciation is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 We are getting 2 paintings done for the UK (BRUM) and Holland (Amsterdam). So paintings based on the city and sights..... The artist just called the girl who is organizing it while I was next to her. The conversation was (100 % true I kid you not):- She asked me the following question :- "What is the name of the football team in Birmingham, is it just Birmingham or something and what colours do they play in ?" My reply will make us all happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 26, 2011 Moderator Share Posted May 26, 2011 Seriously, if you're doing anything in Excel that requires 3-plus-depth-nested-IFs or VBA or offsets()'s, etc. then you're almost certainly using the wrong tool for the job. Perl (or Python (or Ruby (or even PHP... *shudder*))) plus MySQL (or Postgres (or Firebird (or even Ingres... *shudder*))) are a ton more powerful, more expressive, and more extensible (not to mention more Free).As one off tasks that's probably correct, but these are perhaps 1 or 2 things being done in a sheet of thousands of other more-excel-like calculations. Merely the bells and the whistles. For what I'm doing, excel is the right job - I'm just trying to push it while I'm at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Getting home in time for Bullseye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisvilla Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Getting back to the UK on monday after a pretty catastrophic year out in France. I really hope I don't have to ever return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 Another 3 day weekend coming up...time for alcohol abuse ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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