Author: Ken Puls

MVP Summit 2008 – Tuesday

Tuesday again dawned too bright and early. Breakfast was at the hotels this year, which was nice in one regard. Last year they bussed us out to the MS Campus for breakfast, which meant that you were waiting over an

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MVP Summit 2008 – Monday

The day dawned bright and early, and we headed down to Lowell's for breakfast. The funny part about it was that Niek Otten had declared the previous night that last year's breakfast at Lowell's was the best breakfast he had

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MVP Summit 2008 – Sunday

Now that I'm home, it's time to try and catch up on the blog posts that I should have made last week. So, as promised, we spent a pretty lazy Sunday morning. Robert and I met up and headed off

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I’m in Seattle

Yesterday was an event filled day, but I'm finally here... We started off our morning at 7AM, heading out to a plant and tree sale in Qualicum. Twice per year, a (semi) local nursery has a huge sale, with plants

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2008 MVP Summit Stats

I received the following from Scott Vallee with Airfoil PR; a PR firm working on Microsoft's behalf.  (Thanks Scott!) We thought you might be interested in some quick facts about the MVP Summit, the program and the impact the MVP

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MVP Summit 2008

Well, according to the Vista desktop gadget that I have installed, (shown below,) it's only 4 1/2 days until the MVP summit. Somehow, in that time, I still need to finish up a bunch of stuff at work, pack, and

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Understanding Dates in Excel

What are dates? This may seem like a strange thing to ask but, as far as Excel is concerned, dates are numbers. By storing them as such, it gives us the ability to add or subtract days to/from a date,

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