Salman Khan is the smartest man in the world
The world is changing. At some point in the future, says Ray Kurzweil, computers will be more intelligent than humans. He thinks it will happen in the year 2045 to be exact. That’s a scary thought, but...
View ArticleA physics model of a physics model
One of the hardest topics in school next to computer science is physics. Time and again I see students struggle with the topics, and I have to admit I didn’t find it easy in high school myself. So I...
View ArticleFantasy Selling
Here is a little mind control technique I just thought of: selling/planting an idea into someone’s head by just telling random stuff. You’d have to make sure to put enough symbolism in it, so it enters...
View ArticleHow to fix the document map in MS Word 2007
The Document Map! That horrendous, horrible, horrific horror! It never does what I ask it to, it never shows what I tell it to show, it constantly messes itself up beyond recognition. It’s like a crazy...
View ArticleThe selection contains multiple data values… Merging cells in Excel.
This is a super powerfeature I have always missed in Excel: the ability to join the content of cells without losing any data. Sorry, what’s that?? Yes, I know about the ‘merge’ option. It’s lame! Try...
View ArticleUsing named ranges and worksheet functions in Excel VBA
Bold Brackets A couple of days ago I saw something in an article on StackOverflow, that blew my mind. I can’t find the article anymore, but I do remember what this one neat trick was, that will for...
View ArticlePermutations with repetition using Excel
Using Excel, without ever invoking VBA, we establish to get a list of all combinations and permutations of a string, using only existing Excel functions.
View ArticleScribbler
Scribbler is a WordPress plugin that allows you to show an animation of handwritten text on your site. See an example on deschrijfcoacharuba.com Why use Scribbler? Handwriting is very personal, this...
View Article5 (or more) indispensable online coding tools
The last decade has seen an explosion of online tools and services. Especially in the coding world, a lot has happened. If you’ve been stuck in a cave for all this time, or have been coding in your man...
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