Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:09:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080803/172041.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080803/172041.shtml theodp writes "Yes Virginia, there is a Techdirt reader at Google. It took a little public teasing, but Google has quietly fixed the formula bugs in its YouTube-hyped Shared House Expenses spreadsheet template, which can now correctly split roommates' bills three ways (before and after). And so ends another episode of life imitating The Onion."

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]]> with-some-help http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20080803/172041 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:52:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080725/0154041790.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080725/0154041790.shtml theodp writes "Recently, Google debuted its new Google Docs Template Gallery, showcasing a Shared House Expenses spreadsheet template in a pretty elaborate YouTube Video as an example of 'tools that just work.' Only problem is, the popular five-star template still doesn't work correctly. Thanks to its doesn't-handle-zero-correctly bugs, the spreadsheet fails to always divide expenses properly, allowing one roommate to get away with contributing far less than his "Fare [sic] Share." So did Google release the spreadsheet to gazillions of users without bothering to verify it worked, or did all those Googlers fail to recognize some pretty obvious mistakes?"

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