December 2010

U.S. Postage Stamps of 1960

December 23, 2010

It is that time of the year again when I look back at the commemorative postage stamps of 50-years ago.  This year we look at the stamps of 1960, a new decade.  Stamps issued then celebrated current events as well as 50th and 100th anniversaries. I also have a similar review of stamps from 1959, [...]

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Microsoft Office and ODF: Best Practices

December 20, 2010

I’ve received a few questions about how to read/write ODF documents from Microsoft Office.  I looked around and did not find a comprehensive Microsoft web page on this topic, so I’m putting together this page as a reference for best practices on how to use ODF with Office. I intend to update this post as [...]

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What is the Earliest (First) Christmas Carol?

December 13, 2010

(You should click the above time line to get a larger, more readable version). Before we can answer the question of the first or earliest Christmas carol, we need to deal with some preliminary questions.  What is a carol?  What is a Christmas carol? And how does one determine a date for  Christmas carol?  None [...]

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ODF TC Creates Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee

December 5, 2010

The OASIS ODF Technical Committee voted a couple of weeks ago to create a new subcommittee, on “Advanced Document Collaboration”.  Robin LaFontaine, from DeltaXML will chair the subcommittee. Since the entire ODF TC is quite large now (almost 20 active members attend each meeting) it is impossible to do a technical “deep dive” on every [...]

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