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Personal History

2007-09-28

A nice little pastime from WebZweiPunktNull.de, found via Bloggerei.de at Loco Garcia – a “personality test”, kinda:

Which websites appear as first in (the history of) your browser’s address bar if you type in just one letter?

q http://www.qxm.de/webdesign/schattentest2.jpg
w http://winfuture.de/
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r http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/dn?getstop=1
t http://www.teltarif.de/arch/
z http://www.zdf.de/
u http://uk.theinquirer.net/?page=4
i http://www.intern.de/
o http://www.onlinewahn.de/generator/zeitung.php
p http://www.pcwelt.de/
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Summer is coming!

2007-09-27

As I have just been informed personally through intricate paths, the summer is finally arriving! Late, yes, but maybe it wants to put right what, let’s be honest, wasn’t that great in the past months.

So get ready, fish your bathing suits, T-shirts and shorts out of the back of your closets and rejoice!

:jubel:

Or was that really just a stupid spammer who can’t handle his software and tries to sell his weight loss rubbish with the in the northern hemisphere temporally inappropriate subject “Summer is almost here, be ready!”? No, really? :grin:

Talk to me!

2007-09-26

EDL logo Today is the “European Day of Languages” – and there are many languages. Could you assign all the languages to the countries they are officially used in? Even if it’s just a short sentence (see below) each? There’s a game (optionally in presentation mode) at the Council of Europe’s website where you can assign “Talk to me!” in 39 languages to their respective country or countries. (I admit, though, it was a bit too tedious for me, I didn’t play it completely.)

Update 2008: Added language names.

Talk to me!     (English)
Parle-moi!     (French)
Sprich mit mir!     (German)
Parlami!     (Italian)
¡Háblame!     (Spanish)
Μιληστε μου     (Greek)
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Little calculation imprecision of 53%

2007-09-26

Update: Im Excel-Team-Blog wurde eine kleine Erklärung veröffentlicht (englisch), es beträfe “nur” die Anzeige, nicht das zwischengespeicherte Ergebnis. Dumm also “nur” für die, die auch mal Werte anzeigen lassen und nicht nur damit rechnen…

Update 2: Ein Hotfix ist mittlerweile verfügbar.

Microsoft Excel 2007, a spreadsheet calculation program for which the correctness of calculations is not quite unimportant, messes up some multiplications that should result in 65,535, e.g.

850 * 77.1 = 100,000

How it gets the idea to turn a result that has the lowest 16 bits (integer representation) all set to 1 into 100,000 (decimal) – and only with some pairs of numbers, not all – I have no idea. Maybe they wanted to hide another bug or flaw this way… anyway, that’s become a complete flop. They want to release a patch as soon as possible…

:hammer:

Maybe it was just a test to see if people are actually using Excel 2007 already and not stick with older versions (which probably many companies do)…?

(via Golem.de)

Update: The Excel Team Blog published a little explanation, according to which “only” the display is affected, not the stored result. So it’s “only” bad for those who have results displayed and don’t just calculate…

Update 2: A hotfix is now available.