Excel chimp: crunching numbers, counting beans

Radio silence recently due to the fact that I have a pile of work to do, dammit. Service to be resumed soon, I hope.

Today's posting is unashamedly sexist...

I'm referring of course to the frame size of my new, XXL bike , which is up and running, or perhaps wheeling, like a dream. And this tim...

Today's graph of the day shows the temporal distribution of the contents of my iPod - for some reason 2001 was a vintage year. The arri...

…" quintessentially Australian circumstances " mean? In the case of London-based Aussies, it more or less means stooping over a sp...

Today's gloomy Monday column (delivered late due to IT problems) is dedicated to Andre Agassi - you cried like a girl when you lost yest...

Today's jolly Friday column is brought to you in association with David Hasselhof , living proof that you can make a fortune from people...

Thanks to our resident office Kiwi for the title of today's bloggage. Since it's a quiet day, there has been a degree of discussion...

...until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. At that point, you can call him whatever you want, since (1) He's a mile away and (2...

Friday's graph of the day looks at how successive generations of students have fared at the A-Levels with which I wrestled in the dark d...

Well, this is my last blog, since I'm off to spend my bonus on wine, women and song. Not bad for a year spend adding things up in Excel...

It's bonus day shortly, and I'm proud to report that my own share of the swill in the corporate trough this year is a whopping 0.000...

..have stolen my bike. Me Dick Van Dyke. Within 100 feet (although 50 of those are vertical) of my desk. My beloved Trek was 'alf i...

Spam - it used to be slimy pink meat , but is now used to mean the torrent of unwanted emails flying around the globe, most of the time on t...

Some junior editor at BBC News seems to have discovered Google Earth in recent weeks - even the meanest stories with no possible geographica...

1 in 3 of my loud, skinny, tanned South African neighbours are yuppies - a greater proportion than both London and England as a whole. But...

...make 300 people late for work? A: Simple - he insists on walking up the narrow stairs at Euston station (the only way out of the station...