Site history


This page is intended to help visitors decide whether something of interest to them might have been loaded since their last visit.  (Entries more than a few years old tend to get weeded out.)


31st May 2026:  Added a warning that with later versions of Windows it has (correctly and necessarily) become more tedious to configure spreadsheets so that their macros will be enabled.

April 2026: 
(1) Added a new item, on the poem that emerged from the Royal Commission into the collapse of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge.
(2) Released another update (version 28) to the “John Clarke Australian Verse” document.

January 2026:  Added the “Gallipoli letter” and “Latin America letters” items to the “Private downloads” page.

December 2025:  Moved the “Massacre letter” item from “Private downloads” to “Other downloads”.

November 2025:  Added a new download package, this being a relatively simple spreadsheet that explains and demonstrates how to ensure that an “X Y (Scatter)” plot will have equal scaling in the X and Y directions.

August 2025:  Changed the “Template” download package by adding a warning about relying on default values associated with Excel functions.

July 2025:  Released very minor, non-calculational, revisions to two spreadsheets:
»  Solar Angles  (V2.02)
»  Interior of Slab on Elastic Foundation  (V2.08)

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May 2015:  I have at last had an opportunity to check my spreadsheets under Excel 2013.  The checking was relatively superficial, but it suggests that none of them have any problems.

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Nov 2012:  Site created.