Posted inMusings Musing #58: Mutual Fund (SIP) Portfolio Overlap Analyser Posted by By SaMa 3 July 2018Posted inMusings Being from a finance background, I made it a point to invest in SIPs early on. Over the years, while…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #17: A batter(!) understanding of dosa economics Posted by By SaMa 14 September 2017Posted inTutorials Raghuram Rajan has been featuring a lot in the media recently in promotion of his book 'I Do What I…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #15: How to get official licenses (Windows/Office) for cheap Posted by By SaMa 6 September 2017Posted inTutorials There was a time when piracy was considered to be a necessity. The unavailability of the software locally along with…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #12: Converting calendar (CY) dates to fiscal year (FY) and quarter Posted by By SaMa 16 March 2017Posted inTutorials I had a recent request from a colleague who wanted to arrange a bunch of dates in to fiscal quarters.…
Posted inSundries Sundry #4: Excel Karaoke Player Posted by By SaMa 4 June 2016Posted inSundries My previous post on creating karaoke tracks got me thinking of creating a karaoke player and what better tool to…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #6: PowerPoint as an image editor (and meme generator!) Posted by By SaMa 13 May 2016Posted inTutorials Photoshop may be the de-facto tool and term when referring to image editing, but not everyone has access to it…
Posted inPoetries Poetry #6: The Big Leap Posted by By SaMa 29 February 2016Posted inPoetries Curse the day that leaps at meFor it makes me work for freeIt may just be the earth's quirkBut got…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #2: Replace a specific string in Word using wildcards Posted by By SaMa 8 February 2016Posted inTutorials A recent task I had to perform was to remove a list of item numbers from a document while keeping…
Posted inTutorials Tutorial #1: Dealing with duplicates in Excel Posted by By SaMa 30 January 2016Posted inTutorials A common occurrence in Excel is the presence of duplicate values within a column which makes it difficult to further…