George Ou posted a blog in ZDNet “OpenOffice.org 2.0 is here, but is it a pig?” which has been blogged to death over the past week, generating lots of heat but not much light. George’s test spreadsheet consisted of 16 sheets each with over 16000 rows of database data and no calculations – about 4Mb. [...]
Every so often there’s another piece of academic research published which tries to establish whether the IT industry has resulted in a net gain in productivity for commerce and industry. The jury still seems to be out (although I like the idea that playing computer games at work is good for you). Take Google – [...]
My errant journalist finally published his piece. In the circumstances, it could have been worse. Then had a grim time at the day job struggling with the bell curve. Went straight from work for a quiet meal to celebrate our 23rd wedding anniversary (a few days early, but…), and really can’t be bothered to write [...]
My reviewer has come back for more. It turns out that all he really wants from a word processor is to read and write .rtf files by default. It must also have a change case feature including sentence case, title case, or toggle case. It must also have a grammar checker. Oh, and it must [...]
Nearly a week since the launch of OpenOffice.org 2.0, and the first reviews are being forged in the shadows. One reviewer sent us a draft of his article, which was either kind of him (giving us a chance to correct factual errors) or downright lazy (he’d written a pile of cobblers and knew we’d sort [...]
Appraisal time approaches in the day job. We’ve just all been given a glossy book of over a hundred pages (with lots of cool graphics) to give everyone guidance on performance management. The day job is sparing no effort to ensure its process is world class and its people managers are exemplars in its application. [...]
Life (and the OpenOffice.org site) is getting back to normal after the hectic activity of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 launch. The press release was well-covered by all the usual suspects. Some of the better journalists followed up with questions which had to be fielded rapidly. Some even published the email exchanges… I should really upgrade to [...]
