Posts Tagged ‘Links’

Excel embarrassment

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Microsoft Excel can be great for knocking up complex calculations and graphs. It is however very easy to get it wrong. Here is a good compilation of stories of how even big businesses and organisations make very public screw-ups when using Excel.

http://www.eusprig.org/stories.htm

All online data lost after internet crash

Friday, August 10th, 2007

The Onion reports that all online data has been lost following an internet crash. FBI officials have traced to crash to Eric Tipton who had ‘more than 35 windows open on his computer at the time of the crash’. More details are here.