The Hodge Blog

Good day yesterday with bankers, visitors, etc. It was fairly compressed with the visitors arriving lunchtime and being jet-lagged, we always let them off early first day Didn’t mean I did though, leaving work pretty late. That has got me a bit behind with the new ‘community’ that is excel user group and with the help of Dick and his Daily Dose of Excel blog and my ‘colleague’ MVP I now have more than 40 registrants, not bad for a first day, but I now hope some will stick around, or I will be very busy after work!

The next Premier League manager got the sack yesterday, this time it was Big Sam Allardyce at Newcastle. Harry at ‘them down the road’ is tipped to go to them, but I tip he will not move as he has never lived away from the south and lives in the UK (and World’s) millionaires paradise that is Sandbanks.

On this day…

• John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil (1870)
• TinTin makes a debut (1929)
• Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister (1957)
• Time Warner is formed from a merger of Warner and Time Inc (1990)
• AOL takes over Time Warner (2000)

Hatches, matches, despatches…

• Rod Stewart born (1945)
• George Foreman born (1949)
• Linda Lovelace born (1949)
• Pat Benatar born (1953)
• Buffalo Bill dies (1917)
• Coco Chanel dies (1971)
• Richard Boone dies (1981)

Didn’t know this existed, but it’s Margaret Thatcher Day in The Falkland Islands

Quote of the Day:
ARH!! I found it!
–vyacheslavkozlovfan

Weather = It’s blowy and not nice!

Mood meter = 1 visitors day down, two to go. Also chuffed with response to the Excel community