Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

After my recent post about some of the spreadsheets I’ve given away online, I got asked if I ever made a general new business planning Excel spreadsheet. I said “not exactly” and gave some excuses why ultimately you need to build a custom spreadsheet as every business is just a little bit different and has [...]

I’ve made my share of Excel spreadsheets, I spent a lot of time mastering MS Excel after I completed my MBA.  I ended up giving away a number of spreadsheets on this blog. Spreadsheets that are still being used, downloaded, and probably claimed by someone else as their work/intellectual property. These spreadsheets are provided as [...]

After yesterday’s furious update of Mac OS X Lion and a whole bunch of apps, I finally got around to trying my new version of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel this morning.  Microsoft Word templates gave me some grief, Mac OS X Lion doesn’t even want me to see my Library folder now, I had [...]

Although I took the time to write an entire blog post on open source software, I realized I posed several questions, which I didn’t bother answering.  They weren’t exactly rhetorical, they were examples or at least indicative of the questions I’d been asked regarding open source software in job interviews. Remember I’m still unemployed! Despite [...]

Online music is a fascinating space with a lot of creativity and competitors, there are many heavyweights but plenty of nimble startups as well. In the olden days, online music meant pirated music. I have too much respect for musicians to be a pirate. Of course I’m in the minority and musicians have had to [...]