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My Blog is Gender Confused
On Twitter today, someone mentioned www.genderanalyzer.com, and reported that it guessed her blog was likely written by a man (59%).
So, I decided to test my website and blogs, to see how they’d be assessed. Here’s the description of how the analyzer works:
It uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man [...]
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Please Don’t Send Your Giant Files
Just like you, I get a fair amount of spam and other junk in my email inbox every day. There are regular requests for Excel help too, that I’ve written about before.
Some of those Excel help requests come with a file attachment, but most files are fairly small – in the 50-200 Kb size. I’ll [...]
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Analyze Your Website Trends
Occasionally I check the Google Trends page, to see what’s the hot news of the day (or hour). If you’re stuck for a blog idea, or dinner conversation topic, you might get some inspiration there.
It’s not too surprising, but today’s hot topic is the iPad, in a variety of spellings.
You can also see the [...]
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Size Matters
For my desktop computer, I have two monitors – a 22” widescreen (that seems to be dying), and a 20” square. It’s easy to forget that other people don’t have as much screen real estate, and they’re reading my site or blog through a smaller window.
Today I found Google Browser Size, which shows the percentage [...]
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Creative Spam Comments
Akismet blocks most of the spam comments on my blogs, which is great. I check the list of blocked comments, and have only found a handful that were incorrectly marked as spam.
Most of the flagged comments are obvious spam, with long lists of links to dubious sites, or completely off topic remarks with links, or [...]
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Singing the Microphone Blues
Yes, I have a new microphone but don’t worry, I’m not using it for singing. The injuction that the neighbours filed is probably still in effect.
I’ve been making Excel tutorial videos for a while, and posting them on my Contextures site and YouTube. The most popular video, Drop Down List in Excel, was created [...]
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Website Wiki
I’ve added pages for my sites at the AboutUs.org website wiki.
Contextures
Excel Pivot Tables
Excel Theatre
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Because the site is a wiki, you can create an account and edit your own pages, or other pages.
It seems to be well-managed, and I decided it was better to create and edit my own pages, than to leave the default [...]
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Excel Videos Page
I’ve added a new static page to this blog – Excel Videos – using the TubePress plug-in.
It was really easy to install and set up, and you can show YouTube videos for a specific user or playlist, or show popular videos, such as top-rated or most-discussed.
In the TubePress plug-in option settings, on the Advanced [...]
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Move Blog to Different Web Host
Last weekend I transferred my domain registration for this site to a different web host. That went smoothly and quickly, despite the warning that it could take 5-7 days.
It’s Complicated
With my confidence bolstered by that success, I was ready to tackle the next step – pointing this blog to the new server, and moving all [...]
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