Comments on: Practice Building Models for Personal Projects http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/practice-building-models-for-personal-projects Stop working for your data. Make your data work for you. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sandy http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/practice-building-models-for-personal-projects/comment-page-1#comment-24438 Sandy Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:25:51 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/?p=187#comment-24438 One additional use of Monarch that perhaps isn't too traditional: I use it to generate a list of IP addresses from my Wordpress comment moderation queue, so that I can permamently block the spam-bots from ever getting through again from that location. Though since recently implementing the Captcha plugin, I'm thrilled to say that the spam that gets through has been almost entirely eliminated, and I can focus on much more pleasant tasks. Feeling much better now, it's time to start posting here again. Hope you guys improve quickly too. Modern medicine is fantastic. :-) One additional use of Monarch that perhaps isn’t too traditional: I use it to generate a list of IP addresses from my WordPress comment moderation queue, so that I can permamently block the spam-bots from ever getting through again from that location. Though since recently implementing the Captcha plugin, I’m thrilled to say that the spam that gets through has been almost entirely eliminated, and I can focus on much more pleasant tasks.

Feeling much better now, it’s time to start posting here again. Hope you guys improve quickly too. Modern medicine is fantastic. :-)

]]> By: Nick http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/practice-building-models-for-personal-projects/comment-page-1#comment-24430 Nick Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:19:29 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/?p=187#comment-24430 BTW, sorry to hear about you feeling ill... we're not doing so good ourselves, though we got some meds from the doc! ;-) BTW, sorry to hear about you feeling ill… we’re not doing so good ourselves, though we got some meds from the doc! ;-)

]]> By: Nick http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/tips/practice-building-models-for-personal-projects/comment-page-1#comment-24429 Nick Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:11:07 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/?p=187#comment-24429 Yup, both my wife and myself use Monarch to do our banking. We can download our monthly activity from our bank in the Microsoft Money format, just a specialized type of text/xlm file really and run it through Monarch. She can quickly update our monthly Excel budget file in a snap! If you're asking why we use the Money format is that we've been doing this for years and the bank at the time only offered Quicken and Money and the Money format was just easier to work with at the version of Monarch we had. Other personal uses: Like you, I've also used it to parse directories from a DOS command. To format TV listings from websites. To get a nice list of XM radio stations. To get download links from sites (by saving the html of the website) Yup, both my wife and myself use Monarch to do our banking. We can download our monthly activity from our bank in the Microsoft Money format, just a specialized type of text/xlm file really and run it through Monarch. She can quickly update our monthly Excel budget file in a snap! If you’re asking why we use the Money format is that we’ve been doing this for years and the bank at the time only offered Quicken and Money and the Money format was just easier to work with at the version of Monarch we had.
Other personal uses:
Like you, I’ve also used it to parse directories from a DOS command.
To format TV listings from websites.
To get a nice list of XM radio stations.
To get download links from sites (by saving the html of the website)

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