Archive for August, 2007

Who are OpenOffice.org?

Friday, August 31st, 2007

A graphical representation of OpenOffice.org projects

Caught with their fingers in the till

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Microsoft caught offering financial inducements to voters to try and get OOXML adopted by ISO

The Joy of Living

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

A couple of months ago I had the radio on in the car, half-listening as usual, when they played a song that brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. I don’t go much for folk music as a rule, but I quickly scribbled down the track – Ewan MacColl’s The Joy [...]

Email of the week

Monday, August 20th, 2007

We were all dumb noobies once…

Come on in – the water’s lovely

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Corporate sponsors have a role to play in OpenOffice.org.

Spot the dog

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Dogs and wet concrete do not go happily together

MS Guru agrees: Use OpenOffice.org to open corrupt Word Docs

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The OpenOffice.org community receive occasional emails from grateful Microsoft Office users. Somehow, Microsoft Office has corrupted critical documents and can no longer open them. However, the users have been able to open the documents in OpenOffice.org and save themselves hours of work.
It’s nice to see this anecdotal evidence confirmed by Microsoft experts:
When “Open and Repair” (in [...]