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A Game of Zendo

2006/07/18 By Rob 11 Comments

It is the type of response that was crafted to end all debate and justify all sins: “Backward compatibility with billions of documents produced over decades”. Variations of this occur everywhere. Rather than cite them all, a simple Google query will … [Continue reading] about A Game of Zendo

Filed Under: OOXML Tagged With: Microsoft, OOXML, Zendo

Lost in Translation

2006/07/14 By Rob 3 Comments

In the last installment I looked at the way the ODF Add-in for Word 2007 integrates into the Word UI. Now let's drill down into an actual conversion and see what fidelity we get. I downloaded the code from SourceForce and installed on a machine … [Continue reading] about Lost in Translation

Filed Under: Microsoft, ODF Tagged With: Add new tag, Word 2007

Traduttore, Traditore

2006/07/13 By Rob 7 Comments

Brian Jones in his blog entry of 11 July 2006, comments on their recently announced ODF Translator: It's directly exposed in the UI. We're even going to make it really easy to initially discover the download. We already need to do this for XPS and … [Continue reading] about Traduttore, Traditore

Filed Under: Office Tagged With: ODF, ODF Add-in

50 years ago

2006/02/15 By Rob 1 Comment

I find it interesting to take a look back at the commemorative stamps issued in 1956. What do we choose to remember, and how do we remember it?For example, 1956 was the 100th anniversary of the the birth of Booker T. Washington, a great leader in … [Continue reading] about 50 years ago

Filed Under: Philately

Epithets

2006/01/16 By Rob 1 Comment

A few thoughts on the Epitheton Ornans, or ornamental epithet. This is more than a nickname, but a formalized word or phrase associated with a person. Classical epic poetry makes heavy use of this rhetorical device. For example, in Homer Achilles … [Continue reading] about Epithets

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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