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June 2008

BIAM! Book In a Month

Well, She Did it. My 16-year-old daughter got tired of waiting, got tired of worrying about her college fund and decided it was time I started seriously working on my book (Or Books- Like many aspiring writers, I have a whole slew I’ve been working on, but not typing out.) So, for Father’s Day, she [...]

More Free Goodies: Online Office Suites

Got A few more Online Office Suites to talk about: Buzzword is now part of Acrobat.com, Adobe’s fledgling online office suite. Right now, it consists of Buzzword, chat, a whiteboard, Document Storage and not much else. But, like Buzzword, the flash based, animated menus are clean looking and easy to use, and it promises to [...]

5 Enlightened Linux Distros

Image via Wikipedia Regular readers know I’ve been using Linux, trying to get another year or two of decent performance out of the Coal-fired pentium I use around the house. This led to Live Linux CDs of the various “Major” distributions, a few stabs at dual-boot installations, and finally a full bore, Linux only reformat [...]

Linux for Senior Citizens and Computers

This Showed up on Reddit today: 82 year old runs Linux I was interested. I’ve been running PC LinuxOS for a couple of months and thought I’d update readers on what’s happening. First, I’m Using Open Office and Celtx pretty exclusively for Word processing. I still use Firefox for the web and Thunderbird for Email: [...]