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OpenOffice 1.1 released. I tried out 1.0 way back when and found it to pretty useful in some situations. Unfortunately I couldn’t really replace Office with it because so much of what I do is in Access and Open Office doesn’t have a database component, relying instead on a somewhat difficult to configure interface with…
Jeff makes an interesting point regarding writing a weblog anonymously or not. It’s something I’ve been struggling with as the new year approaches and I look at the prospect of a job search. Is the fact that you can easily find my weblog by searching by my name a good thing or not a good…
From Scripting News, Dave’s followup to a post about suddenly getting 1000’s of copies of the same message: “Postscript: I hadn’t opened any of the emails, I just did, and saw that he’s marching through all four-letter combinations of email addresses at one of the domains I own. I turned off email forwarding, hopefully that…
While most of Friday night and Saturday revolved around the grand search for new dining room chairs, yesterday was pretty much an all-hockey day! We went to see “Miracle” early in the day, and got back home in time to catch the NHL All-Star Game on TV. The movie was pretty good, although I will…
In a followup to the recent post about fake email subscribers, Update to Fake Email Subscriber Post, after working with Mailchimp’s support, I believe we have found the culprit, and potentially a solution. Mailchimp confirmed that my API key was being used to add these fake subscribers, but it was unclear if the key had…
Just saw this tonight and thought it might be a good thing to make note of and check out later. Fred Langa’s writeup of his favorite freeware tools and all of the discussion going on in the related discussion area, where it seems lots of folks are listing their own favorite freebies. Follow these topics:…