Category Archives: Software

sometimes even the densest Mark Pilgrim post erupts into comprehensibility: I recommend searching for keywords plus site:.ru to weed out all the legitimate sites Continue reading →

I just had a very nice note from Mark Humphrys, who writes We talked back in 1997 about my X-rated Turing Test program: just today I have discovered your nice comments in The Darwin Wars: “one of the funniest experiments … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two phone calls this morning: one from the mother of a mediaeval friend, for whom I had bought a laptop last February. I had set it up with Windows 2000 and two accounts, and Administrator one, and a User one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

God knows I spend enough time whinging about OOo but just because of this I need to say that the beta of version 1.1 is a huge improvement. Everything seems to work about twice as fast as v1.0, especially loading … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This — a really ambitious trick — is an attempt to check all the new formatting options. specifically, this should appear in class loony and be followed by a sober and respectable class sane My god. It worked. Even if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From time to time I read Ben Hammersley’s blog. It’s literate, interesting — and like having my teeth sandpapered because he’s living in Sweden and he still writes in ascii. So, he lives outside Lidköping — but writes that he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

and so should you be if you find this funny at all. Continue reading →

For reasons too complicated to mention in public, I got portscanned by a freind of a friend on Sunday night, and he concluded that I had been completely hacked and there was evidence of two trojans running on my machine. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

about OOo being mainly a Unix tool, or even, in any important sense, a volunteer effort (in other words, one that is not dependent on Sun spending $5m a year or so on 100 full-time professional developers): one of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The others all got here years ago. I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and depression and find the net a gold mine of information. It is great to keep in touch with fellow sufferers through Yahoo Groups. I also do my … Continue reading → Continue reading →