I’ve just uploaded a little step-by-step guide showing how to turn tabular data in Calc into a nicely formatted report in Writer. I’ve never really used mail merge in Writer, so it was a little learning exercise in using it in a way the designers never intended Hope you find it useful – it’s here
A picture is worth a thousand words, both in changing the culture in a huge IT shop and in promoting open-source projects
Another so-called virus threat to OpenOffice.org – it must be a slow news day.
Colleagues in OpenOffice.org believe I should go on holiday more often 
Sun engineers add their weight to the development of a native version of OpenOffice.org for the Mac.
Celebrate the good news – Dell will be selling selected consumer desktops and laptops in the US with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Ubuntu Linux does of course include an OpenOffice.org variant. So how has Dell managed to overcome the two previous showstoppers: a lack of formal support; and provision of patent indemnity? Chris Kenyon, Ubuntu’s director [...]
