Music: Thanatopsis - Cross Section
I've been following the headlines these last few months concerning Microsoft's attempts to create an ISO standard document. They are trying to get OOXML to become a world wide standard for sharing documents with a government or organization. The problem they're having is this:
1. Its complicated. The document used to describe the standard was almost 9,000 pages, most of the features and functionality will only be available when using Word. (Surprised? I'm not.)
2. Its been done. PDF was created and standardized as a document exchange format. Some might say that PDF won't allow for editing documents, well for that Sun (the people behind Microsoft's cheif competitor, Openoffice.org) had ODF standardized several years ago and has been supported by many companies including IBM and Corel. This will allow you to share your document and edit it. Voila.
During the process, Microsoft hijacked votes in countries like Sweeden which before the vote had 6 active companies and at the time of the vote an additional 22 joined. That makes me angry. But thats not the point of this.
The point is this. Microsoft announced today that they are NOT going to be supporting their own OOXML format (because they can't figure it out) until the next version of Office which has no release date (I can guess 2012 by past performance).
The kicker... their main purpose of the press conference was to announce that they are supporting ODF documents. The same format that they were fighting when they devised a scheme to confuse the world.
Talk about not knowing what the right hand is doing....
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-05-21-022-26-NW-MS-SW
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Totally random...
and incredibly strange.
I just got out from seeing Iron Man in theatres, we got out just before 9pm. Typically when we get out of movies its dark, or snowing. Tonight, the sun was still out. Huh?
I just got out from seeing Iron Man in theatres, we got out just before 9pm. Typically when we get out of movies its dark, or snowing. Tonight, the sun was still out. Huh?
New gadgetry
Music: Alec Empire - 22:24
I recently bought a new SLR camera, I've been drooling over getting one for about 3 years now and I have never been able to muster up the courage (read: cash) to purchase one. It wasn't until recently that I've been comparison shopping online to find exactly the one that I was looking for.
There were Sony 12MP and Nikon 14MP that were fairly reasonably priced, but for some reason my attention has always turned towards buying a Canon SLR. Don't ask me why as I have never picked one up or used one, heck most of the time when you get to a store to look at a camera all of the batteries are completely dead anyways.
About a week and a half ago, I finally caved. I had some extra money left over from tax season and put it towards some thing that I should have had when I did the wedding photos for a step-cousin-in-law.
When you get a camera, whats one of the first things that you take a picture of:
* family member?
* pet?
* loved one?
* your own face?
I took a picture of my face and had the image saved as a *Raw* photo so it wouldn't be compressed and distorted. I can tell you that on my right eye brow (because I cut off most of my face) I have 3 red hairs. Oh so much fun....
see here
I recently bought a new SLR camera, I've been drooling over getting one for about 3 years now and I have never been able to muster up the courage (read: cash) to purchase one. It wasn't until recently that I've been comparison shopping online to find exactly the one that I was looking for.
There were Sony 12MP and Nikon 14MP that were fairly reasonably priced, but for some reason my attention has always turned towards buying a Canon SLR. Don't ask me why as I have never picked one up or used one, heck most of the time when you get to a store to look at a camera all of the batteries are completely dead anyways.
About a week and a half ago, I finally caved. I had some extra money left over from tax season and put it towards some thing that I should have had when I did the wedding photos for a step-cousin-in-law.
When you get a camera, whats one of the first things that you take a picture of:
* family member?
* pet?
* loved one?
* your own face?
I took a picture of my face and had the image saved as a *Raw* photo so it wouldn't be compressed and distorted. I can tell you that on my right eye brow (because I cut off most of my face) I have 3 red hairs. Oh so much fun....
see here
New areas of interest
I just added a few new blogs that I read to the list on the right.... see it?
I would add more to the list, more technical and geeky places, but judging from experience those cool places are updated randomly without any consistency. I shall work hard to find some geeky shit to populate my blog with. Until then, you'll have to learn to love what I offer.
I would add more to the list, more technical and geeky places, but judging from experience those cool places are updated randomly without any consistency. I shall work hard to find some geeky shit to populate my blog with. Until then, you'll have to learn to love what I offer.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
To be or not to be....
Serious questions concerning co-workers.
I have an impossible question that I need answered is this:
When a client goes to you in confidence and tells you that the training course they've been attending has been a complete waste of their time, how do you word it to your supervisor. (Who is also the supervisor of this trainer.)
How can you tell your boss that people think someone shouldn't be training and that they spent $7000 getting here, on a course and hotel only to be disappointed. This client works for a company with offices all over Canada and spends an obscene amount of money on us.... I feel bad. But what else can I do.
I have an impossible question that I need answered is this:
When a client goes to you in confidence and tells you that the training course they've been attending has been a complete waste of their time, how do you word it to your supervisor. (Who is also the supervisor of this trainer.)
How can you tell your boss that people think someone shouldn't be training and that they spent $7000 getting here, on a course and hotel only to be disappointed. This client works for a company with offices all over Canada and spends an obscene amount of money on us.... I feel bad. But what else can I do.
Sleeping with Monkeys...
or impure thoughts of world domination.
I've been spending alot of time lately thinking about the future. More specifically, my future (and related to that my wife's future. [I almost put "wives" future, wow that would have made her mad.).
I need to figure out where things are going with my career. I mean I really and truely love my job. But sometimes I sit back and wonder if this is what I want to do with my time. I sometimes think that I want to go back to school and get my Masters, and there are other times I look back on the training classes I've given and think about becoming a teacher. (Though I'd have to teach nerdy things)
There are too many choices and not enough time to decide.
On the upside, we're going to be moving. If we can land jobs in Cape Breton, we're going there. If not we're going to live in a place thats MUCH cheaper than what we're paying now only outside of town.
Choices. Choices. Choices.
What to decide?
I've been spending alot of time lately thinking about the future. More specifically, my future (and related to that my wife's future. [I almost put "wives" future, wow that would have made her mad.).
I need to figure out where things are going with my career. I mean I really and truely love my job. But sometimes I sit back and wonder if this is what I want to do with my time. I sometimes think that I want to go back to school and get my Masters, and there are other times I look back on the training classes I've given and think about becoming a teacher. (Though I'd have to teach nerdy things)
There are too many choices and not enough time to decide.
On the upside, we're going to be moving. If we can land jobs in Cape Breton, we're going there. If not we're going to live in a place thats MUCH cheaper than what we're paying now only outside of town.
Choices. Choices. Choices.
What to decide?
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