Mr. Excel joins FAQ moderation team

January 14, 2010

Folks, we are blessed to now have the famous Mr. Excel himself, Bill Jelen, contributing to the PowerPivot FAQ.  He is our first hardcore Excel pro (other than myself, cough cough) on the moderators team, so we are clearly setting a high bar here :)

Not only does he bring many years of Excel expertise (check out a selection of his books here on Amazon), but he also brings a certain flavor of dry wit that is quite refreshing.  For example, here’s one of the many FAQ items he has already submitted:

PowerPivot with Dry Northeast Ohio Wit

Welcome Bill!

To see Bill’s many contributions to the FAQ so far, click here.  To see the unfiltered FAQ, click here.

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The bug count also rises

January 14, 2010

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“I will do it for Prado, who was once great with the bugs. I will do it for the time we filled Prado’s office with bouncy balls, and for the time Prado wore his nerf weapons in the marketing hall and slew all of them with no fear and only a great joy at the combat.”

After last night’s post where I related the story of an engineer (me) savaging a marketer, I couldn’t resist sharing this story that appeared in MicroNews (the MS internal newsletter) during my first year at Microsoft.  It was a contest – write a (hyper-short) software story in the style of Hemingway.

 

The whole story is here, and is only about half a page.  Well-worth the read:

http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html 

That half-page work of fiction – both its mere existence and its contents – is also a glimpse into what I would call “old Microsoft,” which I basically caught the tail-end of.  Good times.

John Browne, author of software Hemingway without peer, I salute you, and am grateful I could find your fine work preserved on the web.  Oh, and I include your requested link to the copyright license.

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