Just some re-tooling for its own sake. Trying my damnedest to understand this CSS layout...

Wow, I can't believe anybody visits this site anymore...

Below, for google bombing purposes only...

Thomas Lannon

Josh Carr

"The difference is spelled L-I-N-U-S."

Steganography (or Data hiding) is the art and science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of communication itself.

Thomas, did you post that from home (07:13:58 PM)?

OpenOffice.org also has that AutoWord Completion feature -- though I suppose that is because it is based on Star Office. I have yet to really spend a lot of time with OOo, but I do plan on setting up a financial records spreadsheet this week (need to start keeping track of the ins and outs of $.

Mozilla 1.5 was released recently: by far the best browser for all platforms. Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking (though you should be editing your Hosts file to keep out unwanted visitors), complete standards compliance, and a hell of a lot more. More reasons to switch?

One incredible feature called Bookmark Keywords allows you to set keywords for your bookmarks so you can just type goo in your browser to get http://www.google.com or dict to get http://www.dictionary.com. However, it also lets you extend that by adding variables into the address so that you can type goo american martyrs to search google for american martyrs or dict nebula to get the dictionary.com definition of nebula.

A grand shame about SAV's trip cancellation. I was definately looking forward to vandortime, perhaps studded with some sharb slabs of guitar.


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So I'm moved in, yet far from the point of unpack'd.

But having space is IT.

How goes Henry, Thom?

Got a quick tutorial today about the power of the MySQL/PHP relationship. I am extremely excited to begin creating a database driven section of our website at work (a dynamic News Release Archive that will be populatable/updatable by our press dept. so that I don't have to create a new page every time a news release comes out). I imagine that I will learn enough from a project like that to exploit MySQL's true powers.

Have you tried creating a .sxw file (an OOo document) and then unZipping it to see its component XML parts? I'm amazed at how transparent it all is. What could be the reasoning behind MS Office's move away from XML formatting (other than to retain its proprietary nature and thus continue to charge ridiculous sums for its wares)? XML is the logical way to store and retrieve information regardless of platform.

I've also fooled around with changing MSWord files into OOo files and they look and act EXACTLY the same, keeping all of the formatting, &c. However, the OOo files are almost one THIRD the size!

OpenOffice.org does seem the way of the future, and you are right to be excited about OOo's use of XML. Look at http://xml.openoffice.org/xml_advocacy.html for more information there. I'm still not exactly clear on what Access can do that Calc (the OOo spreadsheet and database user tools program) cannot. But as for MSWord vs. OOo Writer, I would go OpenSource all the way.

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