Steve, Merry Christmas to you and yours.  I hope you horse chores go well for you today and all winter.  You remind me of my farm days that ended when...

Why I was never popular with bosses:

Boss:  Welcome to the shortest day of the year!

Me:  Aren't all days 24 hours?

I wish you all a wonderful and blessed Christmas season and a Happy New Year.  I look forward to another year of interaction with all of you with similar backgrounds...

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No, I had to look that one up.  You may not be old...

1.9PB of data?  Well, that maybe is their first problem.  As usual, my first question is 'Do we really NEED to keep this sh!t?

The designers of their systems better have...

First convert the PDF to excel format. Remove any unwanted lines, rows or any characters. Verify the data is correctly formatted, then save it as .csv file.  Use import/export...

Remember the old piece of wisdom which says "Be careful what you ask for.  You just might get it."  In my fourth IT positon I managed a start-up department for...

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I would quite like to experiment with a 3D printer.  One of my hobbies is building model railways and after trying to scratch build the Victorian bridge at...

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Rod, our electricity went out about 8:30am on Thanksgiving and was out until around 1:00pm.  I'll bet lots of folks were upset about their holiday meal prep.  Then yesterday a...

I ran across this post while searching how to do just this task.  I have a 776-page hardbound book with ancestry data that I want to import and parse into...

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Rod, I hear you on the old furnace.  We bought a home right across the street from my youngest son who owns an HVAC company.  He had earlier done some...

I've never really been much into tech gadgets, but I would like to have something like a 50" wide-screen display with a wrap-around screen for multi-tasking - or playing...

My Christmas shopping for my wife is done.  We are just making the move of all her 'stuff' from a 14-year-old Dell desktop to a brand new custom-built Win 11...

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I'm consciously going to make myself very unpopular but feel I must comment on this whole idea of 'working too hard' and the effects on 'mental health'.  I seriously doubt...

I can't believe you folks are stewing over this.  Use freaking alias and move on.

Now for my next cup of java before I get up.  It's past 9:00.