by Sid Peimer | Aug 26, 2013 | Articles |
Sergei was the inventor of the Sagger missile. Basically it was an RPG (those rocket propelled grenades that are fired off-the-shoulder in the movies), but it came with a twist – you could fire at a target 3 km away (ten times further than an RPG) – with an...
by Sid Peimer | Aug 21, 2013 | Articles |
For the residents of the Hebrides (a chain of islands north of Scotland), if you had head lice you were healthy. There was ample proof: if the lice left their host, fever would follow. So, to get rid of the fever, all they did was put lice back in their hair. (1)...
by Sid Peimer | Aug 20, 2013 | Articles |
With the awesome power of sparklines, you can condense 20 PowerPoint slides into one. And what’s more, Excel 2010 can do it for you. An example will follow. But that’s not all – nothing breaks up a story like the disruptive ‘Refer to Table 1’, and with...
