Peace-A-Rena

My birthday wish: the continued humbling of MS.
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads […]

I switched from Yahoo to Gmail for my primary email address a few months ago, and just wish I’d done it sooner. Gmail is vastly superior in many respects, not the least being the absence of display advertising all over the web-accessed email client, which is what finally make me abandon my several Yahoo accounts […]

And the winners are …
Congratulations to all, and a big collegial hug to Mike at Okiedoke who does such a great job with the awards each year, in addition to his own great blog.
I have to admit I haven’t read most of the winning blogs, which I plan to remedy soon. I have set a […]

Warning: Geek alert!
I found a “new” computer on OKC’s Craig’s List and will get it tomorrow.
Intel pentium 4 2.4ghz 1 gig ram dvd/floppy/wireless kb
I bought a “new” computer less than a year ago, a used one, but an upgrade from the previous one, which was slow as hell and ran Windows 98. I got […]