OK, I've got the MS Office beta, OneNote beta, InfoPath beta and Publisher beta installed. It wasn't overly difficult and ran into only one small problem. Outlook on first start needed me to reinsert the Office CD in order to create the first "welcome message". It was ok 1 minute later. Activation took about a minute too. Not a bad start at all.
Of course the nice weather on a Saturday afternoon is calling, so I'm going to put working with this stuff on hold while I maybe do some reading out on the porch with a nice cold drink...
Just got a phone call from the fine folks down the street to let me know that they had gotten a package for me delivered to them and that I could pick it up from the front desk of their buidling. Obviously, I ran down the street to get my package, and I am now in possesion of 12 CD's full of MS beta software that I am free to install, play with, and learn as much as I can from, until Nov. 30, 2003.
I know of some people who had today off, and based on the amount of traffic I saw on my way to work I would guess that quite a few other people had the day off today. I don't. I'm here at my office plugging away as usual. Although, our office is closing early, at 3, so I probably shouldn't complain.
After reading that article I couldn't help but think back to my childhood. Every summer my parents would ship us off for a couple of weeks to stay with my grandparents out on Long Island. (Pronounced Lawn Guyland for those of you not from the area..*L*) As to whether my parents were trying to get us out of the city or out of their hair for a couple of weeks, I'll leave up to you to decide. :)
Anyway, my grandparents, without fail, always stayed up to watch the 11 o'clock news. Only, it struck me as odd, because they wouldn't really pay any attention to most of the news. They would have it on, and they were relatively well-informed, but they didn't really care about most of it. But, boy, when the weather report came on, they were glued to it. The weather had much more to do with their every day lives than any other information that was available on this news program, so it was what they cared about. The rest of it was interesting, but didn't impact their lives at all. Watergate, the Iran hostages, etc. would come and go, and my grandfather would still get up in the morning and go to work, so what he really cared about was whether he should bring an umbrella or not.
Spent my lunch hour trying to find the best way to do this for Angela (It's the top post about sharing a CD burner, her permalinks aren't working again. The free version of blogger is having an awful time of it right now...) You can see what I came up with in her comments.
The biggest problem seems to be that most CD burning software doesn't have an option for burning to a remote drive. So there's no way for you to install the burning software locally and burn remotely, nor can you burn remotely without the software. Of course, maybe that's because there's so many other complications in burning to a remote machine that no one really bothered to include the option?
Want to see what sort of comment I consider to be a pointless comment meant only as a way of getting a link to your blog on my page? Look at the entry prior to this one. I'm not going to delete this one, but will leave it for all to see. :)
You know what I discovered when I went to setup some things on that laptop so someone could use it today? The last person to take it out returned it sans power adapter! Since the battery is not charged, it's pretty much useless until we either find it, or order a replacement. (I don't have any extras, and I would give them the adapter to my personal laptop but it's a different manufacturer and doesn't work with it.)We've got a call in to the place where it was used last to see if it was left behind. Let's hope they find it and ship it back. Not that anything can help those people who wanted to use it today. They'll just have to do without. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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I'm not paranoid!
Things like this are why I am so freaking rigid about the spare laptop at work. Whenever someone has it out to be used I always demand that it gets back to me by the end of the day so I can lock it in my office. Yes my office gets locked every night when I leave. That keeps anyone from getting physical access to the network server and the spare laptop unless I am there. It also means my office doesn't get cleaned, which is sort of a pain. :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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"Most weblog comment systems convert a single return into a break tag, and two returns into a paragraph. If yours does not, that's something unusual, and you need to tell people, before they submit a comment that they expect to be several paragraphs long, only to find that they've submitted one giant lump of text that makes them look foolish."
I went ahead and added a little bit of a "head's up" on the comment form. Now you can see clearly that this particular commenting system does NOT convert line breaks and that if you want a line break, you should break out the proper HTML tags. Personally, it never bothers me if someone's comment looks like one long paragraph instead of a couple of smaller paragraphs but, obviously, not everyone feels the same way, so the text warning is there now. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Digital City..
As you can see from Angela's post about our trip to the Newport Aquarium, little Dylan seemed to have the best time when she gave him her digital camera and let him wonder around taking pictures. They're not too shabby for a 3 year old. Anyway, she and I are thinking of trying to find a cheap digital camera with an LCD screen for his birthday in June. We think he'd quite enjoy it, and it doesn't have to be anything really impressive, just something that will let him have his fun taking pictures. Anyone have any suggestions? Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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