Comments on Comments is a regularly irregular post, in which I attempt to respond to all thoughtful reader comments, inquiries, complaints, suggestions, etc. ++ Mysteriously, my pagerank appears to have dropped from four to zero. In going through comments this morning, I notice that a number of obvious spam comments have slipped through Akismet. That’s a first. I’ve deleted them, maybe that will help. I had 4,300 uniques last month, which was almost double the traffic from October, and through 8 days of December I’m already over 2,000 uniques, which is a good start because I imagine the last week or so will be abysmally slow. ++ Ray left a new comment on an old post, Do We Have to be Afraid of Being Shot: I think the notion that ultimately taxation is … Read entire article »

I’ve got a problem in my VBA editor that I haven’t been able to resolve using all the power of Google… The Refedit control, in the toolbox bottom-left is unavailable to me, however all of the other controls are available, and user forms created with RefEdit controls function properly. When I try to use it, I get the following error message, I’m wondering if anyone of my 6 readers knows how to fix it? I’ve tried a few things, including Run | “c:\program files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE” /regserver, to no avail. This is the only VBA control that I can’t use, however, if I go into an existing UserForm, I can copy & paste to create additional RefEdit controls. I have not tested this process for functionality, since I don’t want to bust … Read entire article »

Comments on Comments is a regularly irregular post, in which I attempt to respond to all thoughtful reader comments, inquiries, complaints, suggestions, etc. ++ Brad left a comment on with several questions: Sometimes I think about the conversations we have had over the years and I wonder how much government/taxes/The Man would be acceptable to you… How much would be acceptable? Preferably none. Would I be more satisfied with simply less? Well, yeah. But at that point, if the government were only in charge of one or two or three things, and the entire corpus of human needs and wants was otherwise satisfied by voluntary exchange in a free market, it should be easier to convince people that no government is a viable goal. …Then I saw “free society” … Read entire article »