I feel a tiny TINY bit bad for those awesome sites who’ve long maintained archives of public domain literature (Gutenberg, C.U.T., and this UK library to name a few), because now they’ve got some serious competition. But at the same time, now they don’t HAVE to maintain those libraries. They probably weren’t making a lot [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Google gives public domain books!
31-Aug-06OpenOffice to become a native Mac App!!
30-Aug-06Macworld shares the happy OO news. Microsoft Office alternative, OpenOffice, will ship in a native version for OS X next month. You have NO IDEA how happy this makes me. It’s soo difficult for me to run OO on my mac, because NeoOffice and running X11 take up too many resources and slow everything down. [...]
Google opened Writely!
24-Aug-06I don’t know why I didn’t see this before now (it’s been two whole days!) but, according to lots of news sources (news.google) google opened up Writely for general registration! I’ve been a really big fan of writely for probably six months now… BEFORE Google acquired them! A friend of mine and I wrote a [...]
How to write business emails
17-Aug-06I’d been telling people I worked with in the Writing Center that in a business environment, emails should be short, easy to reply to, and direct. I thought I knew what that meant… I’m a good writer, confident in my ability to be professional and clear… direct and concise… I asked a client a question [...]
I’m sort of proud of this. Just wanted to let you know that some “reporters” actually do listen to people who write to them to inform them that no oats were “abused.” I suppose he was trying to be funny, but his articles are syndicated as “news” so I didn’t really look too closely at [...]
Firefox crop circle finished!!
15-Aug-06First, let’s resolve some FAQs: No aliens were harmed in the making of this crop circle. No farmers or land owners were harmed in the making of this crop circle. (we had PERMISSION!) No, we were not really abducted by aliens and forced to act as their personal slaves to promote some alternative browsing lifestyle. [...]
Firefox Crop Circle (part one)
12-Aug-06Crushing oats with 2x4s in both 2am freezing cold temperatures and broad-daylight HOT SUN is… really NOT how I expected to spend a weekend evar in my life. I’m sunburned for the first time since I moved from hawaii, and I’ve got OATS. hehheheh. WE MADE A FIREFOX CROP CIRCLE! Helicoptors, small airplanes, and GOOGLE! [...]