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Friday, April 02, 2004
After reading this article about a guy that went through and downloaded all of the MS Office docs with tracked changes in it, I immediately went and downloaded and installed the Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data. ::sigh:: I pretty much have to use Word, as it's a standard for most of the publishers I work with (including, natch, O'Reilly). Pretty much everybody sends you a Word doc with a stylesheet that you have to use. On a minor side-rant, every publisher seems to have a different stylesheet, with all sorts of bizarre requirements. My favorite? If you want to bold something, don't use the built-in bold -use our special emphasis character style... Several of the templates even include a VB macro toolbar. My default, of course, is to leave macros turned off, as I don't particularly want to propogate VB macro viruses. But, some of the templates have such complex style requirements, it's pretty much impossible to get it right without using the macro. Upshot? I typically spend an hour or more per chapter, usually closer to two, just getting the formatting right. Admittedly, I usually take the time to do another minor edit pass, but... still... Thursday, April 01, 2004
Top 12 Things A Klingon Programmer Would Say
8. What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake. ... The Scope of Hibernate Three Very intrigued to note that 2.1.x is in bug-fix mode. Somewhat amused that I now know Hibernate well enough to follow along with everything in the post. An in rather significant agreement about the parser - looked through that code, and... oh my... ;) Wednesday, March 31, 2004
yay for them! I guess that's a sign...an IPO no longer seems synonomous with words like "excess" and "irrational spending." LOL... L, -Will --- steven@[snip] wrote: > This message was sent to you by steven@[snip], > as a service of The Seattle Times > (http://www.seattletimes.com). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Seattle-based startup's IPO aims to raise $26 million > > An obscure startup begun by high-profile Internet > executives expects to raise $26 million today when its > shares begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. > Seattle-based Marchex - begun... > > Full story Tuesday, March 30, 2004
 I use it every day on my Win32 box. If you're still putting up with pop-up windows and all of the security problems in IE... well, I'm sorry. Monday, March 29, 2004
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