Many offices use Microsoft Excel not just for number crunching, but as a database, scheduler, project management tool, and even a word processor.

Its ubiquitous use can unknowingly be a bottleneck to business processes, despite its apparent usefulness. Excel excels (haha) at summarizing data - that's the main purpose of spreadsheets; however, Excel is often used for every other office process because it tends to be one of the first applications office workers learn to use, and it's easy to adopt to other purposes other than number crunching.

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While creating a SharePoint solution for a client we ran into an unexpected problem: SharePoint doesn't accept the following characters within file and folder names:

" # % & * : < > ? / { | } ~

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You can use the 100 Essential Skills for Geeks as a How-To guide or a litmus test for your own geekiness. It includes:

• Understand what “There’s no Place Like 127.0.0.1″ means. (That's an easy one)
• Use any piece of technology intuitively, without instruction or prior knowledge.
• Reciting key scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Some of the items are more geeky than others:

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Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Desktop."

Customer: "OK."

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "OK. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"

Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."

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A lawyer, a doctor and a computer engineer were driving a car up a curvy, hilly road.

The car speeds around a corner, slips, smashes through the highway barrier, and flies down a cliff.

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The first thing any new website owner does is google (i.e. search) their company's name, disappointed if it doesn't appear on the first two or three pages of results.  For example, try Bulletproof Solutions; however, most customers are not searching for your company's name, but the services or products they provide.

Search engine companies such as google have programs called spiders that crawl across the world wide web, scouring websites for their content, indexing keywords based on secret algorithms.  This indexing is used by search engines to determine what websites to display to users how are looking for certain terms.

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A developer’s joke:

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Warning: This article maybe of interest to only those who get the joke. :)

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