November 25, 2009 by runningclam
Today I got invited into the closed beta of Microsoft Office Starter 2010. This is brand new version of Office that is expected to hit the… well, it will never hit the store shelves because it’s free. But it’s expected that you will be able to download a final release copy for free in the first half of the year 2010.
What makes Microsoft Office free?
It has an AD! Sorry for capitalization. It’s not needed here actually – the advertisement inside Word and Excel is not that bad. It’s just a sidebar that you cannot (and should not, I guess) hide or change size of. Click on a screenshot above to see how it looks.
What makes free Microsoft Office great?
It has everything average user could ever use or think it’ll be useful sometimes in a distinct future. Also, Office Starter 2010 opens and saves newest .docx Office files fluently which isn’t a surprise, but in addition to that it can open and save OpenDocuments (OpenOffice.org native file format) and export any documents to PDF through the general Save/Save As dialog window.
Both Word Starter and Excel Starter have a startup time comparable with such of OpenOffice.org 3.2 and even a little bit faster. And both of them are working pretty smooth. However, you can spot an hourglass cursor for a second every time the lower right corner banner changes.
Summing up, I can say that Microsoft managed to roll out a great tool which is finally totally competitive with OpenOffice.org and Google Docs. But I would appreciate a lot if it contains a free version of OneNote too.
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November 23, 2009 by runningclam
The old one. I mean, the old view out of the old window. As well as photo. It’s from the winter of 2006-2007. Poor quality snapshot for nostalgia purposes. Note to myself: to take a shot from my current window.
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November 21, 2009 by runningclam
Green proto-drake certainly not the rarest flying mount in game, and may be not the most beautiful one. But I got one yesterday and I love him a lot.
Despite its 2% chance to hatch from the Oracle’s mysterious egg, it took just seven or nine (I can’t recall for sure) tries for me. Apparently this blood elf hunter Runningclam is a lucky guy. He’s the one who got Hyacinth Macaw (if you know what I’m talking about) last year.
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November 18, 2009 by runningclam
Yesterday was a quite notable day on my calendar. It wasn’t just another (thirty-ninth, to be precise) anniversary of the Lunokhod 1 landing on the Moon. Yesterday was exactly one month since I quit smoking.
How did I do it?
I didn’t read Allen Carr. I didn’t put a loads of nicotine patches all over me. I didn’t even need to summon all my willpower to quit smoking. I did nothing like that.
Well, actually, I didn’t do anything at all.
On Friday evening I decided to quit smoking and went to sleep.
On Saturday morning I bought a cartload of cakes, cookies and chocolates. I managed to avoid a cigarette stand at the checkout successfully since my Friday’s urge to quit was still very strong.
The rest of the Saturday and the whole Sunday I spent in my apartment eating sweets every time I craved for a smoke and sleeping most of the time.
That’s all. That weekend was the most difficult part of all quitting process. On Monday it was much easier. I still craved from time to time but eating a candy or chewing a gum helped to soothe it.
Now, after a full month of smoke free life I’m still experiencing something that I can describe like acute envy for the smokers. And it’s quite understandable. I was smoking for a dozen of years or so. It means I was spending at least half an hour every single day doing one thing and now I feel a bit lonely without it. Hopefully, it will disappear in a month or two more.
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November 18, 2009 by runningclam
Casual sex is a question of hygiene.
It’s like picking up a burger from the floor. If it’s your kitchen floor you can be pretty sure if it’s clean or not enough clean. If it’s McDonald’s floor, it could be even cleaner than your kitchen floor, but you just can’t be 100% sure. That is the point.
Q: A 15 y.o. girl and a 16 y.o. boy (or vice versa, it doesn’t really matter) are having sexual intercourse. Where is a pedophilia?
A: It’s inside the heads of all those indoctrinated ignorant perverts obscured by their own complexes and outdated social taboos.
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November 17, 2009 by runningclam
I don’t know what the city is on this skyline picture. Could be Phoenix or Tulsa or something like that. It doesn’t matter anyway.
The thing is quite straight: If we were able to build a better, simplier and easier to navigate roads, perhaps the satellites were still the toys of the militaries.
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November 11, 2009 by runningclam
The modern society is divided by the deep gap between freedom and control, or better to say dictate as antonym to freedom. A lot of people in their right mind consider freedom as a root of all evil, putting hopes for a safety and stability on a total control and oppression of civil rights.
It’s easy to think that those who oppose freedom and civil rights are want to be controlled, exploited and enslaved. Nope, this is dangerous fallacy. Actually, they are the ones who want to control, dictate and enslave. They want to be slavers not slaves.
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November 10, 2009 by runningclam
Almost ate this little guy today. Note to myself: never buy Alpen Gold cookies and chocolate again.
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September 29, 2009 by runningclam
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September 9, 2009 by runningclam
Sometimes stupid people hirt themselves even harder than others.
Domains considered profane, e.g. ‘blow.co.ck’, ‘mybig.co.ck’, etc, will not be considered on any level, and the application will be dissolved with the applicant being notified, and future requests for the same domain name will be ignored. ‘.ck’ domains are monitored on the web, on a regular basis for profanity on the Internet if it is found to be doing so, or if the site is deemed inappropriate, the domain will be terminated without notification or refund. via wikipedia
In their apt attempt to follow one of the stupidest decisions in the history of Internet*, administration of Cook Islands found a way how to make a profanity out of a harmless abbreviation.
* – greedy practice of forcing people to register 3rd-level domains in some national TLDs rather than normal 2nd-levels (e.g. company.co.uk vs. company.uk)
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