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Friday, May 27, 2005 - 10:34 a.m. -
The Olympics as natural disaster.
Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 07:16 p.m. -
Onward Christian Soldiers
...overreaching hand in hand.
Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 05:30 p.m. -
I'm back on IM - if you use Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, or MSN Messenger, please ping me. I'm using Trillian, which bundles all of those networks into one client and seems to be pretty cool so far. I have lost most of my contacts from days past (not that I ever had that many, really), so now seems as good a time as any to solicit IM addresses from the throngs. That's you. Get started.
Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 02:30 p.m. -
And speaking of awesome, go check out Rip Taylor's site. He's always been a favorite of mine, and his 18-point, all-caps weblog-like page is brilliant, full of insane pictures, and just gay as all heck. Go go go!
Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 02:29 p.m. -
Could this be true?
I know the Senate has lots of urgent business, but this is awesome in a shouldn't-have-to-be-awesome way.
Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 05:36 p.m. -
How come I haven't heard of this yet?
Why didn't you tell me?
Monday, May 16, 2005 - 03:01 p.m. -
You need evidence that the French are still cool - or you wouldn't be here, right? I've been meaning to toss a shout-out to this totally insane urban sport invented by our brothers and sisters in revolution: parkour. Yes, the site is in English, but most of you are Americans, and hence barely literate even in your own language, so no French links for you. If I were about a million years younger and 10-11 metric tons slimmer I would be all over this. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
I first heard about it a year or so ago in Warren Ellis' absolutely brilliant comic series Global Frequency. Also well worth looking into, even if you don't like comics. It's kind of a distributed-processing model of superheroics, but I don't want to give away too much. It was supposed to be made into a TV series, but I guess it got canned. Poor Warren, nobody loves him.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 12:23 p.m. -
So my desktop machine came with MS Word and Works pre-installed. Now, I like Word just fine, but the spreadsheet utility built into Works is just awful for all kinds of reasons - and there isn't a PP displayer. That hasn't been an issue until recently, but I've had to do quite a bit of spreadsheet noodling and PP viewing for work and volunteer projects lately, and got frustrated enough to go looking for solutions*.
If you're missing Office components, want to dump the MS, or are just curious about how good free software can be, go check out Open Office. I can't speak to the quality of the word processor, drawing program, or db tools, but "Calc" and "Impress" are outstanding. "Calc" is definitely better than Works, and so far seems to be the equal of Excel. Do yourself a favor and try it.
* This word has been effectively destroyed by marketing jackasses like myself, but I'm squeezing a little bit of legitimate use out of it here before laying it to rest.
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