10 year birthday

I missed it obviously but one of the kids pointed out I have been blogging here for 10 years! ken ell!

(as of January just gone)

I can’t imagine dragging it out for another 10, unless some spreadsheet miracle happens and I am sucked back in. I still think spreadsheets are brilliant at a great many things, I have just given up waiting for numb nuts management to realise.

I built a random mental maths test generator for the kids the other day. I looked at doing it as an app, as a web thing,  but in the end I did it in a spreadsheet in about 10 minutes. The kids hate it!

I love it!

(it even has a bit of VBA in it – woo hoo)

cheers

simon

LinkedIn

just a little FYI. If you are one of the few non-spammers trying to connect with me on LinkedIn, the site has been broken for me for months and months. So sorry for not accepting your invites – I couldn’t get on the site.

I have now fixed this and been on an accepted all the plausible sounding invites.

Bear in mind I don’t really use that site and I am not very active in Spreadsheets or Office dev anymore.

ie so if you read this don’t feel the burning desire to link up…

cheers

simon

Office 365 subscriptions

I saw this the other day. Not sure how come as I don’t think I was looking for Office stuff. Anyway the author is suggesting that Office 365 subscriptions fell off a cliff in 2016.

Obviously I have no idea as I have never used it, I have an old 2010 installation that I use occasionally (and a dusty old Classique on an old machine somewhere) and other than that I am on LibreOffice. Except for the odd Google sheets messaround.

Are any of you using Office 365?

I really hate renting software. really. I bought my house (with a little help from the bank of course – spreadsheeting was never THAT lucrative…), I bought my car, my clothes, my phone, my toys. I don’t like renting. Why would I rent software?

I looked at Adobe creative cloud for photos, even did a trial (they allow 7 days – WOW Adobe Generous – not), in the end I decided it was not worth 8 quid a month. Good call – they just put it up to a tenner a month.

The renters (of Adobe CC) seem to be in two clear camps: those that pay it and think its cheap, especially in relation to the thousands spent on camera equipment, and those that resent the lock-in and are just waiting for some viable buyable alternative.

Who rents Office 365 when they can buy a perpetual licence version? or get a web based office for the price of letting Google snoop through all your stuff to sell you shit?

cheers

simon