What a week......
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Matt13.com - OpenOffice.Org or Microsoft Office
Matt13.com - OpenOffice.Org or Microsoft Office
This seems interesting. I use OpenOffice because first of all it is legally free and secondly it is not from M$ and last but not least it can export to PDF file which I find very useful when I am printing across platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, HP ...).
Since I do not care about most of the features, stability and performance are the main concern. So far I am pretty happy with my OpenOffice. It could be interesting if I can have a chance to try Apple's Pages.
This seems interesting. I use OpenOffice because first of all it is legally free and secondly it is not from M$ and last but not least it can export to PDF file which I find very useful when I am printing across platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, HP ...).
Since I do not care about most of the features, stability and performance are the main concern. So far I am pretty happy with my OpenOffice. It could be interesting if I can have a chance to try Apple's Pages.
Friday, June 03, 2005
Our Janitor
Our janitor came to my cube later today, after almost everybody had left, and asked if I was getting ready to move.
Our janitor said he never saw it coming, that our company is merged by another one and now we are moving. He said he though we are gonna stay for a long long time. He said he had worked in the previous place for 25 years.
Our janitor has the coolest car in our parking lot, a 90's black Vette. Cold and dark under the tree. No one else even come close.
Our janitor even rememberd my name, even though I don't exactly remember his and was too embarrased to ask again.
Our janitor is the only black people here, in this all Chinese-Russian shop. But he's cool.
Our janitor said good-bye and we shook hands. He's gone just like our receptionist, HR (yyyyes!), finace and my ex-boss.
Our janitor said he never saw it coming, that our company is merged by another one and now we are moving. He said he though we are gonna stay for a long long time. He said he had worked in the previous place for 25 years.
Our janitor has the coolest car in our parking lot, a 90's black Vette. Cold and dark under the tree. No one else even come close.
Our janitor even rememberd my name, even though I don't exactly remember his and was too embarrased to ask again.
Our janitor is the only black people here, in this all Chinese-Russian shop. But he's cool.
Our janitor said good-bye and we shook hands. He's gone just like our receptionist, HR (yyyyes!), finace and my ex-boss.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Back to the Dark Ages
Got dragged to watch the Star Wars the other day, such a waste of time - I feel better washing dishes for 2 and half hours.
In a country where Yoga is cool and Buddhism is spiritual, you kind of figured what people would do for such a long series of movies (yes, I just said it, it is too long, too much). It is simply a one-page, 5-minute story streched into a decades-long third-rated plastic cartoon, where pigs fly, elephants work in the government (...) and top guns flight with AA battery powered light bulbs - they call it "light sabre", a kitchen knife would have been far more leathal for advanced space age when people dress like homeless in Chinese Tang Dynasty (only a little more than 1000 years ago, about 4 times the age of America). Don't they just love retro? This trend has been noticed ever since the Matrix. People in the future just so dig the style.
I guessed (using the word guess here is almost an insult to myself) then entire "story" within the first 2 minutes. The rest of the time is just for ticking the boxes and checking the time.
Suck you must, if you like to speak backwards like a mystic, 320-year old some "lord" without underware, read this:
siht daer `erawrednu tuohtiw "drol" emos dlo raey-023 `citsym a ekil sdrawkcab kaeps ot ekil uoy fi `tsum uoy kcus.
Forget about Si-Fi. All you can do is reality TV, eating worms, 3-some, breast surgery, pimping $50 cars, UFOs, police chasing pickups and rap. Or do you have films, where I couldn't help thinking about LAPD talking to an illegal immigrant from eastern-Europe while watching this Star Wars thing... I also remember seeing Chinese villagers speaking Japanese in American movies as well. And there was one film where a bounch of Chinese policemen in a car chase with an American businessman in a Chinese city - remember, Chinese cops do not drive at all. Marked police cars are driven by chauffeurs used to send in-laws home, not out-laws to the station.
In a country where Yoga is cool and Buddhism is spiritual, you kind of figured what people would do for such a long series of movies (yes, I just said it, it is too long, too much). It is simply a one-page, 5-minute story streched into a decades-long third-rated plastic cartoon, where pigs fly, elephants work in the government (...) and top guns flight with AA battery powered light bulbs - they call it "light sabre", a kitchen knife would have been far more leathal for advanced space age when people dress like homeless in Chinese Tang Dynasty (only a little more than 1000 years ago, about 4 times the age of America). Don't they just love retro? This trend has been noticed ever since the Matrix. People in the future just so dig the style.
I guessed (using the word guess here is almost an insult to myself) then entire "story" within the first 2 minutes. The rest of the time is just for ticking the boxes and checking the time.
Suck you must, if you like to speak backwards like a mystic, 320-year old some "lord" without underware, read this:
siht daer `erawrednu tuohtiw "drol" emos dlo raey-023 `citsym a ekil sdrawkcab kaeps ot ekil uoy fi `tsum uoy kcus.
Forget about Si-Fi. All you can do is reality TV, eating worms, 3-some, breast surgery, pimping $50 cars, UFOs, police chasing pickups and rap. Or do you have films, where I couldn't help thinking about LAPD talking to an illegal immigrant from eastern-Europe while watching this Star Wars thing... I also remember seeing Chinese villagers speaking Japanese in American movies as well. And there was one film where a bounch of Chinese policemen in a car chase with an American businessman in a Chinese city - remember, Chinese cops do not drive at all. Marked police cars are driven by chauffeurs used to send in-laws home, not out-laws to the station.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
First DELL Impression
Not that I wanted to buy one, I got one from work which was delivered today. It's a proper machine, solid, functional with all the usual stuff (4 USBs, wonder who would ever need that many in a laptop, but no 1394). Yet it looks 5 years old in its dreary gray plastic right from the box ... yes the IT guys have had them for a while to install the system, but for a one-day-old computer, the Latitude D610 looks pathetic, and feels that way too - it is so hot that it makes the one-year old T41 feels refreshing.
One advantage: it won't be stolen from the office, who would bother to do that? It is a smart choice in that way.
One advantage: it won't be stolen from the office, who would bother to do that? It is a smart choice in that way.
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