Walk into an Apple Store and you’ll notice something subtle about the MacBooks on display. They’re all positioned at exactly 76°. At first glance, it seems like an oddly specific number, but the answer is surprisingly clever. Rather than presenting…
On Sunday, I visited a Premier League training ground for the first time. I’ve been to plenty of football stadiums over the years, but this was something different. The visit was part of Manchester United’s new stadium, museum, and training…
Today, I asked Copilot to go and sit on the naughty step. I’ll tell you why… Recently, it’s become a regular thing for me to do what I call a ‘cross-pollination exercise’. It’s basically a weekly process where I take…
20/12/2025: “I think a sub-45 [10K] is within reach in 2026.” So it proved, as I beat my 45:38 from then with a 44:45 today — a 53-second improvement. I haven’t budged from my weekly routine: one 10K at slow-medium…
Custom formatting is a great way to control how values are displayed, but formats are designed to sit on a single line, which isn’t always ideal. Take a football match summary, for example. You might want to display the day,…
Excel’s calculation engine just got upgraded. And it’s the biggest change since dynamic arrays came about at the back end of the last decade. Formulas can now respond to the active cell, something that previously required VBA. As a result,…
