Adam Pode's Blog

Google is so last year

I am “old” enough to have lived through the dot.com bubble. After which a large number of useful online resources and technologies disappeared because they could not answer the question “who pays?”  Google appears to have reached this same point. Why fund resources such as the Wonder wheel,  + searching, Google labs possibly even advanced searching and most viewed news if they are... More

Scatter Yourself

I have just spent a very frustrating couple of hours trying to add text labels to a xy scatter chart.  Only to find out that in Microsoft Excel 2010 “there is no built-in command that automatically attaches text labels to data points”. This was as part of the process of editing the European version of our excellent VMS/MSP report created by Bryan Pena and Tony Gregoire.

One of my great... More

Fishing

You may well have heard the Chinese proverb that if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.  Our purpose here at Staffing Industry Analysts, is to provide you with the very best proprietary research and to guide you through the world of contingent work. To do the latter job we have produced a series of Data Sheets, for the different... More