New Class.

This week, I taught a new class for the Arlington Public Schools. I now teach night school for adult education.

The official title was "Advanced Functions in Excel"

It was awesome. The computers were antiquated, but they had most of what I needed.

The participants were great. One is learning new skills while between jobs, one teaches basic Excel, and one was a CPA.

They each got different things. The woman between jobs learned about vlookup, the Excel instructor now knows "if", and the CPA can do index/match.

Next time: Pivot Tables.

Pretending.

"Humans have more important things to do than pretend to be machines." -- The Unincorporated Man

I am so stealing that quote.

google.cn

When google.cn came out, I was in grad school. I did some basic searches to look for filtering and blocking. The most obvious was "tiananmen square"

Back then, the search gave pretty pictures, flowers, and everything was modern day. The google.com result gave something altogether different: destruction, and a man stopping a tank by will alone.

I just did the same search.

Google.com Image Search Result

Google China Tiananmen Square search

Google.cn search for Tienanmen Square.

In the first google.cn search, I used google's preferred spelling. In the second, bloggers.

The first shows a few images from the massacre. The second predominately shows the massacre.