Archive for February, 2008
Custom Cell Formatting in Excel - Few Tips & Tricks
By Chandoo at 25 February, 2008, 9:55 pm | 13 Comments
The other day I had to make an excel sheet for tracking all errors across one of the applications we are doing for our customer. The format was something like this,
We wanted to use a consistent message id format [4 digits: 0001, 0002, ... , 1000 etc.]. Now I do not want to type “0001″ [...]
Read More >>Why do notebook page layouts suck?
By Chandoo at 23 February, 2008, 4:16 am | 7 Comments
My job takes me to numerous meetings, even though I hate to go to so many of them. Most of the time during the meetings I end up writing lots of notes about,
good ideas
things to do, action items
usual meeting notes
mind maps, diagrams
and of course doodles
well, this brings me to the point, I think the notebook [...]
Read More >>Busy!
By Chandoo at 20 February, 2008, 1:40 pm | 0 Comments
Sorry for not posting any updates, but I am occupied with few things that are going on in now and cannot post anything here until this weekend. Back to back meetings with customers, non-stop snow in Columbus and planning for my new business are keeping me away for the time being. So bear with me. [...]
Read More >>5 !!! I Did it
By Chandoo at 16 February, 2008, 4:04 pm | 4 Comments
Yesterday, for the first time in my life I ran 5 kilometers. That is 5000 meters. I am so excited, so happy for this result.
Even though I am not a fitness fanatic I do workout quite often. But most of the times when the momentum is building up I had to go on one [...]
Nationwide Paintbucket Guerrilla ad - nicely done
On my way to office I have spotted this nicely done guerrilla campaign by Nationwide insurance. The concept is nice and execution is perfect. See it for yourself. (Btw, the picture is not mine, thanks to Hojimoto)
Read More >>Super(b) Tuesday!
By Chandoo at 6 February, 2008, 2:04 am | 5 Comments
And you almost knew why it is a superb tuesday, well, we got Shimla delivered today. Still going through initial learning curve of getting used to mac. Here is the screen cap, isnt it looking gorgeous? We know :), but the important thing is the it feels gorgeous.
PS: regular posting @ PHD should resume with [...]
Read More >>Proud owners of Macbook
Missus arrived
Missus on bench
Missus bored at hotel
Missus asked for some immediate lap love (not the baby kind )
Missus nagged
Missus ORDERED!
I had to obey now, the choice was between Dell XPS 1530 and one of the Macs. A quick check at the bank balances revealed that I forgot my online password. But it also revealed [...]
