Nerhood Weblog

Last Thursday Ellie’s school had an open house and we stopped in to take a look at her Kindergarten room (her teacher was not there). Tomorrow morning we/she has an orientation, which we are all attending, and where we’ll meet her teacher for the first time. Her first full day of Kindergarten is on Friday. [...]

Computer based language translation has been out of quite a few years now. I often use when I run across a web page that I need to translate. Most times is does a good enough job to get the idea across. But what happens if you translate a phrase from English, to something else and [...]

I was in need of parsing out the first, middle, and last names from a single field in Excel. The following site had the formulas necessary in order to make this happen: ITS Software Tip - 04/29/02 - Parsing Names in Excel. Note there is one problem, the coded listed for last name parsing on [...]