February 2007
22 posts
This week in Outlaws
FLOSS Weekly this week makes offhanded mention of this fact: Major Linux Conferences and Gatherings are held outside the United States because many of the Linuxrati are afraid/cannot come into the country.
“That’s the parable, I guess. A controller is as good as the game. A system...”
– Tycho Brahne
and He blinked!
Could James Cameron’s blatant manipulation of the Christian religious to muster support for his film not be the final thumb into God’s eye? Is it so ridiculous to think that the Ultimate Causative Power could be sitting on his crystal throne, flowing through all things, full of sound and fury signifying nothing, and see this Cameron douche as the Ultimate Reason to just pull the flush...
We're talking about Cookies.
Jeni: Oh, mmmm those sound good!
g: Yeah. They're not bad.
g: They're a little cakey.
g: Becuase I had to add mink.
g: Milk.
g: Not Mink. Gross.
Jeni: I thought mink might be tasty
Jeni: and smelly
g: Greasy.
Office 5
They moved some stuff around. Noted: Insert — Breaks is now part of the Page Layout tablet. (Never mind. Pagebreak is also part of the Insert tab.)
Office 3
Ok. Where the hell are they hiding the “Save As…” Option.. Oh yeah. That dumb button again. … And Word Count? Where is word count. Maybe the Review tab? Stares blankly for a bit. Yup. There it is. … Also, you know, the Non-Vista dialogs kind of kill the art effect for me.
Office 2
Noted that when I fired Firefox to write this that Firefox has “mysteriously” no longer my default browser. Grr.
Notes on Microsoft Office Word 2007 (1)
Took _Forever_ to download trial. Splash is yellow. Ugh. No “New…” option readily aparent on ribbon. Perhaps I’m the only one on earth who doens’t start from a blank page every time? I doubt it. Regardless, I wasn’t sure how to start a “new…” document. I thought maybe I’d try to close the document, and see if contextually...
New CC Contest
Submissions are OPEN. Early deadline: 3/31/07. See below for details. Email this page The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were...
Over the top?
For it is the great fields of academia that Ms. K. is best put to plumb. The excellence she exhibits in the journalistic field is great, yes, but applied to scholarly pursuits, Ms. K.’s effect is likely to have profound ramifications. What great literary works is she yet to accomplish? Completing her course of study is but a first step on the road to academic super stardom. She can and will...
“It’s all in Spanish, and I don’t understand a word of it. I only...”
– Bret Stieghorst, 33, a student at Waukesha County Technical College on why he would spend time watching the Spanish-language only DVD “Casa Del Culo.”
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