In honor of DDoE’s sixth birthday, I thought I’d see how this blog is developing compared to other six-year-olds. From About.com:
At mealtimes, the six-year old has a very good appetite
– I’ve been starving this blog for years, so no match there.
Very few six-year olds will nap
– This blog just took a week long nap while I was in Vegas. I guess when I don’t sleep, it does.
Bathing is a bother to most six-year olds
– DDoE is wearing the same clothes it wore three years ago. Reminds me of Summer camp.
To the extent you can compare a blog to a child, we’re not faring very well. Thankfully, I have a better way to celebrate: a free book.
I know you’re all Excel geeks – me too. So to have a chance to win The Excel Analyst’s Guide to Access, you have to email your funniest Access joke. And by funny, of course I mean disparaging to Access folk.
Here are the rules:
- Send me an email with your Access joke.
- I must receive the email by 12:00AM Central Daylight Time, April 1st, 2010.
- You must send the email from the same email account with which you registered on this site. If you’re not registered, you can’t win. If you used a fake email to register, just include that fake email address in your message so I can confirm you’re registered.
- This list of eligible entrants will be entered into an Excel spreadsheet, a random number will be entered next to his name, and the list will be sorted on the random number. Whoever is at the top, wins.
- I’ll post the funniest jokes, but I won’t associate them with your name.
- One entry per registered reader.
- The winner will get my extra copy of The Excel Analyst’s Guide to Access mailed to the US (or reasonably priced) address of his choice
- Any other rules that make this contest less of a burden on me or that I may choose to enact retroactively or otherwise makes the give-away legal and easy are hereby included.
According to DataPig, this book won’t be released until April 5th. And I don’t even know if the publisher is sending me a copy (I was the tech editor). But I’m sure it will all work out for the best.
Happy #6 DDoE! (I follow but don’t comment much because I’m not an Excel geek, though I do aspire to be one day!)
DK,
I don’t want my copies of the book either. I’ll get you copy if you don’t have one.
Whats the difference between an access database and a bucket of shit?
The bucket
Happy birthday, DDoE! Have you and Mike attended the book marketing seminar? Are you supposed to say that you don’t want your copy?
Happy birthday DDoE…
Debra: What can I say, I’m a humble man (which makes me even more awesome).
By the way DK, Happy B-day on the blog. It’s easy to gloss over the achievement of carrying a blog for six years. Especially one on Excel. I’ve carried mine for six months and I’m exhausted.
To keep an Excel blog going for 6 years is an awesome achievement. Surely opening up the blog for other posters is one of the things that kept it going!
Well, I’m hoping to get two copies – one for me and one to give away. However, when I tech edit I read every chapter three times, so I know the book pretty well. :)
Congratulations on your new year! I’m running hard to be a bona fide XL geek and it was this site that hooked me on VBA. I cannot thank all the regular contributors enough, both past and present.
Respectfully,
Brett Hamilton