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Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:33:21 +0000

[...] Dick, over the Daily Dose of Excel wants to make sure that your state is automatically highlighted (Ego Charts). Nice “quarter [...]

By: AlexJ

AlexJ — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Jon,
Using “friable” in a comment ammounts to extraneous othogonality . Or is that just the sound of my paradigm shifting?

Dick, how about we add a function to DDoE to vote on cute words added to comments?

OK, I had to look it up, too. Nice one Jon. You’d think an engineering degree and an MBA would have prepared me for life.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:37:00 +0000

Yes, friable describes eggs, but not in the way it sounds.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:44:00 +0000

"p.s. I had to look up what friable meant"

Me too. And then I got hungry for some eggs.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Friable or not it going in my code library - by which i mean in a few months I will be looking around DDoE to try and find it again! Excellent little snippet Dick, thanks.

p.s. I had to look up what friable meant, Stop begin so clever Jon, you have to dumb it down for me!

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Friable indeed, but fun. Send me your credit card number and I’ll work on the next part.

By: Accordion Chart for Jorge | PTS Blog

Accordion Chart for Jorge | PTS Blog — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:21:00 +0000

[...] Dick Kusleika has made an adaptation to this chart that always displays the user’s home state. As he so astutely points out, “Does anyone really look at the top or bottom five before he finds his own state?” Read about it in Ego Charts. [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:17:00 +0000

"Does anyone really look at the top or bottom five before he finds his own state?"

Good point. I sometimes forget these are real people using these charts. The GetIP function is a nice, if somewhat friable addition. An alternate approach would be to find the user's credit card information on the computer, and get the state from the billing address.