Best of Pointy Haired Dilbert - Oct 2008
on 3 Nov, 2008 in Excel Tips, blogging | 0 Comments
October has been another fantastic month since I stared this blog. We had 100k page views, the RSS subscriber count nearly touched 1500. There were 33 posts and 280 comments (WOW). Even our Facebook fan club reached the milestone of 10 members. For a loooong time myself and a friend whom I persuaded to join [...]
Read More >>Introducing Spreadcheats - Become Supergood with Excel in 30 days
on 31 Oct, 2008 in Excel Tips, blogging | 11 Comments
Starting next week, PHD is going to feature a 30 post series on spreadcheats. The purpose of these posts is to make day to day spreadsheeting a breeze. Each post will be less than 200 words in size and aspires to make your day at office a little bit more productive.
I have already identified around [...]
The New Poor - Internet Penetration Rates by Country
on 16 Oct, 2008 in Excel Tips, blogging, visualization | 6 Comments
Yesterday is Blog Action day and tons of bloggers posted about single topic - poverty. It is a topic very close to my heart for various reasons. It is a very sad thing not to have food or shelter or healthy living conditions. But man has thrived in all those situations just because he learned [...]
Read More >>The Best of Pointy Haired Dilbert : September 2008
on 2 Oct, 2008 in Excel Tips, blogging | 5 Comments
September has been by far the best month since I started this blog with 103k page views, 34 posts and 246 comments (great discussions everybody ). The RSS Subscribers have crossed the 1000 milestone last month and are steadily growing each day.
With so many posts and great discussions every month it may be [...]
Introducing new design of Pointy Haired Dilbert
on 2 Sep, 2008 in blogging | 11 Comments
It has been a while since the blog’s look and feel has changed. The number of visitors to blog has been doubling for the last 2 months. I felt the need for a simpler but more elegant blog look and feel. So during the labor day weekend I have spent a few hours and changed [...]
Read More >>Analyze your blog post’s readability with Google docs
on 5 Aug, 2008 in blogging, ideas, technology | 0 Comments
How can you ensure that your blog post, term report or business case is readable without spending a lot of time getting beta reviews from others?
Thanks to google docs, you can do that with one click. Just upload your word document / txt file to google docs. Once inside, goto menu > tools > “word [...]
Welcome readers from Lifehacker and Delicious
on 2 Aug, 2008 in blogging | 0 Comments
A big hello to readers from Lifehacker, Delicious and countless other sites. Thanks for making the Excel can be exciting - 15 fun things you can do under 5 seconds post so popular. I am overwhelmed by the visits, comments and love shown.
A quick introduction to this blog and what you can find here:
Pointy Haired [...]
- Pankaj Verma: Know what - I wonder, perplexed and bewildered to think that...
- Bhars: Wonderful calendar!! Thanks a lot!...
- Stružák: Hi, would you mind publishing a calender template with weeks...
- Ketan: In any cell after writting the formula and bfore pressing th...
- Ketan: You may use any shape or text box too and link the data of d...
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