Archive for March, 2008

Excel’s DateDif function

Anna was doing some work tonight in one of her spreadsheets and needed a bit of help. One of the things she was doing was calculating the number of months between 2 dates. There isn’t really an easy way to do this in Excel without resorting to using its VBA macro language. [...]

The master rebater

I bought an OCZ memory kit from NCIX in late December for the new computer I bought from Future Shop. Specifically, I bought the

A month with Vista SP1

Today, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released to the general public. I’ve actually had SP1 running on my Vista Home Premium setup for the past month since I downloaded it from the MSDN subscribers’ site.
I must say, I’ve been impressed. My biggest beef with Vista was its file-handling capabilities especially slow file [...]

Robin season

I saw some robins in our area recently. It looks like birds are starting to fly back north for the spring.  In my neighbourhood, there are lots of birds singing.  The neighbourhood is fairly quiet, so it’s easy to hear the birds.
This robin built a nest on the fence in our backyard that separates [...]

Hard drive issues

I was installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after having downloaded it from the MSDN downloads site.  During one of the reboots, my machine sat on the bootup screen.  This is what I saw:

 

 

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My machine came with a 250GB hard drive and an optical drive.  I added a second 200GB hard drive so I [...]