Monthly Archives: March 2015

An Intriguing Post Elsewhere

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I ran across the following post while grazing in fields of elder PC nostalgia.   I was going to explain to somebody the difference between stream-oriented and object-oriented text editors.

But never mind that.  I also got to think that I would like to showcase the post at another site where I am but a  lowly commenter with post rights to a scrum feed.  Except this [cryout-pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”33%”]There must be more to writing than simply stockpiling opinions[/cryout-pullquote]didn’t really seem to fit in over there, so I though I would put it up over here.  I worried that it didn;t fit in quite right here either, and if you;re going to run a purpose-fpcused blog, you need some discipline.

But never mind that.  If I’m going to … Continue reading →

Outlook, Access, Excel

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I have a utility database  that tells me what my inbox looks like.  You see many people asking how to get a count of mails BY SENDER.  It’s the ultimate spam-whacking tool.  This is why places like Gmail don’t support it and never will. They want that spam sitting right where it is, spilling metadata.  The more junk mail sits on your Gmail account, the more they know about you.

Well, long story short, here’s a pivot table of the whole thing.  This is mail received by week, but with an important caveat — this is only what remains after some mail is moved, and some is deleted.  The dip at the end of 2014 is not a reduction in inbound mail, but the result of a cleanup … Continue reading →