Feb 17, 2007 | blog
So I got Office Pro a few weeks ago and found that I will need to pick up the other Office components as well. Pro comes with Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and a few other incidentals. I don’t count Access as a real app since I’ve seen a lot of shitty programming done with it.
Over the last year, I’ve become very fond of OneNote and will need to pick that app up as well as Visio, and probably Project. They are all too useful not to have them updated along with the rest.
Yes, I’ve been advocating an all-online office for several months, but I still need to have the MS Office suite to do business. By the way, the save to PDF add-on rocks.
Feb 17, 2007 | blog
I’ve not been blogging much lately, mainly because of getting over the flu – it really hit me hard. I’ve not been really sick for more than a decade and a half, so it’s been a hard one this time. We’ll be getting the flu shot next year.
But in addition, there has been a lot of things going on around the homefront, and its taken the steam out of my sails for writing and such. I’m looking to find the inspiration again, but all the regular stimuli has not been much to get me motivated. Yeah, there are some neat things going on in the mobile space at 3GSM, and some neat tech seminars for work, but its not getting me in the mood to write about it really.
I’m planning on getting some more work out of the way so I can get back to reading more and being able to write about it. There is a bit of change going on here, and I hope to make the most of it over the next many months. Change is good.
Feb 16, 2007 | blog, daily links
If this isn’t the truth for most people I know with a BB. I’ve managed to avoid the BB curse, but do have push mail through a 3rd party hosted exchange service on the ‘net along with some other systems.
This is a great effort by the companies in cooperation. Having a low-cost laptop available to developing areas will help bring opportunities to many who otherwise would not get the chance to go digital. Hopefully, this will add to the positive effect of
Some information on where RH is at and where its going in 2007 with the next release of RHEL. Good stuff.
Another chance for AMD to get out front again on the quad-core chip wars. Since its taken the back seat for dual core shipments, it has a window of opportunity to get ahead again.
Are you on top of the DST 2007 changes? Get patching if you haven’t!
This is a good win for Opera. The browser company has been pushing the mobile browsing limits for years and its nice to see them get some contracts on shipping handsets. The Opera Mobile browser literally kills PIE in comparison.
Feb 15, 2007 | blog, daily links
Feb 14, 2007 | blog
Of course, he misses the point, and does not follow the blogoshpere. I’ve been preaching and predicting DRM-free music for almost 9 months now. The reality for the record companies is that they have missed their opportunity to really control the digital market because they were to intent on leaching every penny from every music sale.
Jobs is only a recent convert to the DRM-free movement. Many people have been pointing out the inability of the recording industry to get their head around not suing their customers for using their product. A few kids and parents copying music is not the same as real pirates that produce cut-rate copies of the various artists, and trying to recover those lost sales is akin to slitting their own throats.
Via: CNET News.com – Parsing Steve Jobs’ alternative views of the future
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