a new view on things..

Posted by Ronan on Apr 25, 2007 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

I just got my first big flat screen monitor. It’s a scaleoview l22w-3 and it’s a beauty! It’s 22 inches and now I never have maximize a document again.. I am looking to get a new computer and now, it has to come with 22inch monitor.. these things are really nice to work with !!

other news..
** Going on a nice break to Croatia with Shelly for 2 weeks. I’m really looking forward to it.. below is a picture of the place we are staying in. NICE!?

** I have a new tooth! my wisdom tooth at the back decided it wanted to pop out fully and see what the inside of my mouth looked like. It started to push and move last week although he has done this a few time before, I never really saw him make any progress. Over the weekend it has fully ‘erupted’ and I can see I have a new tooth! woot! lucky me!

dilbert..

Posted by Ronan on Apr 18, 2007 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

ain’t this the truth!

smashing weather!

Posted by Ronan on Apr 16, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

stupid format

Posted by Ronan on Apr 8, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I was recently working at home and I found a copy of office 2007 so I installed it on my laptop. The new office is quite nice, everything seems really nicely integrated – the ‘ribbon’ is a nice idea.. but that’s the problem.. everything is nice. I don’t want nice.. I want the power of LaTeX! any road, I saved my document and uploaded it to my clever gspace account so I could finish it off on my Linux box inside at work. When I tried to open the new format (which I noticed to have a .docx extension, I presume the x means xml) staroffice crapped out .. what is the advantage of the new format (Sparky)? I’m not sure.. but I don’t think office supports ODF (Sparky?) if it did, life might be easier. Instead you have to ‘Save as’ and enter ‘compatibility mode’ – real user friendly there MS!

So now the problem of opening doc files in Linux is doubled. Once it was a problem of star office ‘kinda’ of getting it right and ‘sorta’ editing word docs. Now we have convert docx to doc and then star/open office might be able to open and maybe edit it.. oohh woe is me.

it's open season for chocolate lovers..

Posted by Ronan on Apr 7, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments