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Python functions in Excel
Excel now supports Python. The documentation doesn’t describe how one can use python functions and I spent some time figuring this out. Imagine that you would like to create a set of your own function that you’d like to apply to values in your Excel ...
Nov 22, 2024Phone Tray in BMW 330
I recently rented a new BMW 330. It was a nice ride, but the phone tray's design was terrible. You can see it in the photo: The phone should be placed deep in the tray where the wireless charger is located, making it almost invisible and easy to for...
Nov 14, 2024Summiting Mt. Whitney in November 2024
In November 2024, I made a second attempt to climb Mt. Whitney, which is the highest point in the lower 48 states and attracts many visitors. My first attempt was in 2016, solo, via a Mountaineering Route. I did not summit at that time, so I decided ...
Nov 12, 2024
Bugs around us: Air France
Wow! What a day! Today was one of those were technology just wasn't on my side, and the experience with Air France clearly stood out. I was searching for flight tickets from my phone, expecting it to be a smooth experience (well, if searching for fli...
Sep 5, 2024
Modern gaming
The thing I hate about modern console gaming - inability to do one room multi-player. Or cross play or whatever it is called. It freaks me out every time. I need to Google, try things, create additional user accounts. All these when my kid is around ...
Jul 12, 2024Farewell Gitlab
I like to look at different options. Github is not my default go-to solution for git. I used Gitlab, Bitbucket and even bare minimum systems that look like git2web (KDE, NemoMobile). I have one project at Gitlab that consist of 3 repos. Recently I wa...
Jun 29, 2024
Bike locks
Yesterday, the housing cooperative I live in had a spring clean out. This time the goal was to remove all the abandoned bikes. I volunteered to do lock cutting. This was fun! I had a first-time experience cutting locks via a manual bolt cutter like t...
May 14, 2024The fun of upgrading hard disk in laptop
I spent last Sunday upgrading the hard disk in my wife's laptop. I went from M.2 SSD 256 Gb to M.2 NVMe 1 Tb drive. I learned about cloning software and figured out that this will be perfect (and easy) since I didn't want to reinstall the OS and all ...
Mar 19, 2024