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That article was written for Greg The Dogsitter.

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I am soooo old that when I started my first professional job we used to do project cost estimates using "spreadsheets". However, these were paper and pencil affairs done with large graph paper and pocket calculators. The big problem with these was if the boss said "what if we change the estimate of hours needed for these three tasks...how does that change our bottom line (lots of smudgy erasures on those spreadsheets, and lots of errors too). Computer spreadsheet programs hadn't been invented yet. I bet few or you youngsters here realized that the term "spreadsheet" long preceded the advent of the PC.

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"Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird. -- Alan Watts



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2006 04:58PM by davester.