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Vista Happens!

Friday May 18 2007, @12:07PM
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Well, it finally happened. I've nearly seen my first instance of MS Vista in the wild. Well, in my office building anyway. Until now, I've never known of anyone that actually uses Vista unless it was given to them to review.

Ok, here is what happened:

I'm walking from the break room to my modest but sparsely decorated cube when I over hear a conversation from the cubes occupied by the desktop support group.

Desktop Support girl: That's BS! Is it supposed to be our fault he's an idiot?

Desktop Support guy: Well... no, not really.

DSGirl: What's wrong with him, Vista works fine?

DSGuy: Well, it's not Vista. He has format problems.

DSGirl: Format problems? With what?

DSGuy: He's caught between Vista/XP and Office2000/Office2007 and doesn't understand how to convert between formats.

At this point I just walked away, ignoring the urge to laugh loudly as I walked down the hallway.

This is what has always been wrong with MS Office: The constant battle with updated and changed file formats. ODF can't be implemented soon enough as far as I'm concerned.

Politics, power, and god

Thursday May 10 2007, @11:01PM
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If power corrupts and politics is power, then politicians are corrupt, well a good many of them are. If corrupt men are sinners does 'taking god with you to the voting station' mean god is helping pick who goes to hell?