2007
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Happy Rat Year
Considering all that might lie ahead for anything – be it Open Source, the housing market, outsourcing, insourcing, upward mobility or downward spirals – we thought it auspicious humorous that 2008 is the Year of the Rat. If you’re a big cheese, you might be in trouble. If you’re a rat, then this is your [...]
The Deprecated “Smoke Screen” of MS Office Open XML (OOXML)
BSI British Standards states: “… a standard is an agreed, repeatable way of doing something. It is a published document that contains a technical specification or other precise criteria designed to be used consistently as a rule, guideline, or definition. Standards help to make life simpler and to increase the reliability and the effectiveness of [...]
Clawfoot Tub-a-holic
I’m one of those folks who can easily spend four hours in a tub reading, sleeping, and grooming. Fortunately, I found an apartment with a “garden tub” that’s deep and that keeps water hot for hours. But, at heart, I’m a clawfoot tub gal. My grandmother had a clawfoot bathtub and I never forgave her [...]
How Children Can Affect Your Memory (and your heart)
My daughter will be nineteen years young this upcoming May, 2008. She’s my only child, and perhaps it’s that singularity that made my pregnancy and her birth so momentous for me. But, some shocking and world-shaking events happened during that time, and I’ll never forget them. It seems that when my daughter entered my life, [...]
