Links and Minifeatures 01 04 Wednesday

Carnival of Investing



Carnival of Capitalists Recommended: Daily Dose of Optimism



Carnival of Liberty



Carnival of The Vanities

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So folks know where I'm coming from philosophically:



You scored as Existentialist.



Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.



Existentialist 81%

Cultural Creative 75%

Idealist 63%

Postmodernist 56%

Modernist 25%

Materialist 25%

Romanticist 6%

Fundamentalist 0%



What is your world view? HT: Inside Larry's Head



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Michael Barone has some thoughts that are worth reading on the Index of Economic Freedom.



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REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE



I have a severely useful spreadsheet relating to the purchase of residential property that I'd like to upload to the site. Currently, it's in Excel. It would be trivial to change it to Corel. I could also handle other spreadsheets, as long as they can handle the formulas I need (amortization is the only tough one). What I really want, though, is a stand alone that will correctly manipulate a few numbers that the user puts in. The formulas are all in and all correct. I'm debating between just putting it up for anyone who wants to use it on the site, and actually making it downloadable.



I would appreciate any technical or copyright (of the base program - I wrote the spreadsheet itself) thoughts anyone has. Is there a public domain program I could move it to? Would it handle being a stand-alone spreadsheet, so I don't have to include or pay for the copyrighted program? Thanks in advance.



UPDATE: I've tried uploading it as a webpage and also using Microsoft Excel Viewer. The issue, in both instances, is that this seems to turns the sheet completely static, where I want them to be dynamic and at least to some extent, interactive. And it also requires the use of IE rather than Firefox (Eeewww!).