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Daily Archives: November 30th, 2004

Solo Media Coming February 1!

Okay folks, we have a semisolid live date for Solo Media. Publishing gets reinvented February 1, 2005.
We’ve still got some stuff to iron out in the next two months, though. Most importantly, distribution and pricing.
We’re thinking 50� for each issue. Seems like a nice, round number and small enough that people won’t hedge too much [...]

Open Standards

One of the hot topics in IT right now is open standards, using technology
that doesn’t lock you down to a particular vendor. This is different than
open source, giving your actual code away to anyone that wants it. For
example, Microsoft Word 2003 isn’t open source; Microsoft protects the
source code used to compile Word from anyone other [...]

Office Blues

I’ve had some problems settling on an office suite for my Zodiac.
For a long time, I’d bounced between WordSmith and Documents To Go.
WordSmith was the better pure word processor, but now that I’m doing
independent consulting, I find more need for Excel and yes, even
PowerPoint. Moreover, now that I’m connected once again, the ability to
save and [...]

The last PDA I’ll buy

Hi, folks,
With all apologies to Jeff and Josh, and the group, I’m sorry I haven’t posted at all. I’ve become quite busy in lab as I push to finish my PhD. And my wife and I have been preparing for our firstborn.
However, all this “living” has at last weaned me away from gadgetry for the [...]