Comments for It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com Life, Laughs, and Lotus Software Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Changing the way that I work. by Dave Clarke http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/changing-the-way-that-i-work/#comment-118 Dave Clarke Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:15:54 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/changing-the-way-that-i-work/#comment-118 Questions from "that guy in Canada?" Fair enough...sometimes my brain cramps. The "board" in Connections 2.5 will certainly help with that. Halifax is going well! But we have even better news on Connections in Ontario! Questions from “that guy in Canada?” Fair enough…sometimes my brain cramps. The “board” in Connections 2.5 will certainly help with that.

Halifax is going well! But we have even better news on Connections in Ontario!

]]> Comment on Changing the way that I work. by luis benitez http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/changing-the-way-that-i-work/#comment-117 luis benitez Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:44:33 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/changing-the-way-that-i-work/#comment-117 You are so right on!!!! IMHO, email makes you very unproductive and costly to your company. I love not having to answer the same question over and over again. I love how people can just get answers to their questions from me from my profile or other intellectual capital sources. Though, every so often this guy from Canada comes to me with a question, but I guess that's a battle for another day :) How did that thing in Halifax go ? You are so right on!!!! IMHO, email makes you very unproductive and costly to your company. I love not having to answer the same question over and over again. I love how people can just get answers to their questions from me from my profile or other intellectual capital sources.

Though, every so often this guy from Canada comes to me with a question, but I guess that’s a battle for another day :)

How did that thing in Halifax go ?

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by MS Office-less at the office: Week 1 « It’s the truth, even if it didn’t happen… http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-111 MS Office-less at the office: Week 1 « It’s the truth, even if it didn’t happen… Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:35:58 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-111 [...] As I mentioned in my previous post, I completely removed MS Office from my WORK computer. [...] [...] As I mentioned in my previous post, I completely removed MS Office from my WORK computer. [...]

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by Dave Clarke http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-110 Dave Clarke Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:32:14 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-110 Thanks all, for the encouragement. I'm pretty confident this is going to work out. THE greatest challenge is that it is my WORK machine that I have removed MS office from. I receive TONS of complex Excel documents every day that are laden with macros. THIS was the only reason that I hesitated moving over my work machine to something else. But now I'm running Symphony on my TP. So far, even those crazy spreadsheets seem to be working just fine. I wonder how many others are out there thinking "oh..I can't move to something else because my MACROS won't work???" Pbblltt! Thanks all, for the encouragement. I’m pretty confident this is going to work out.

THE greatest challenge is that it is my WORK machine that I have removed MS office from. I receive TONS of complex Excel documents every day that are laden with macros. THIS was the only reason that I hesitated moving over my work machine to something else.

But now I’m running Symphony on my TP. So far, even those crazy spreadsheets seem to be working just fine.

I wonder how many others are out there thinking “oh..I can’t move to something else because my MACROS won’t work???”

Pbblltt!

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by John http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-109 John Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:18:20 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-109 Good choice. Good choice. When I bought a new PC for my wife (an Acer) it came with 60 and 90 day trial versions of Norton Internet Security and Office 2007. After taking a brief look at Office 2007 (being used to Office 2003) and then a brief look at OpenOffice, my wife gave the verdict... Microsoft goes, OpenOffice stays. By the way, Norton Internet Security quickly followed... Good choice. Good choice.

When I bought a new PC for my wife (an Acer) it came with 60 and 90 day trial versions of Norton Internet Security and Office 2007. After taking a brief look at Office 2007 (being used to Office 2003) and then a brief look at OpenOffice, my wife gave the verdict… Microsoft goes, OpenOffice stays. By the way, Norton Internet Security quickly followed…

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by luis benitez http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-108 luis benitez Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:45:48 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-108 Good for you Dave!!! OpenOffice rocks! MS Office is a hog! Good for you Dave!!! OpenOffice rocks! MS Office is a hog!

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by Alan Bell http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-107 Alan Bell Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:52:08 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-107 I haven't had a computer with Microsoft Office on it for years and years. I don't miss it. I don't think my children have ever used Microsoft Office (not that they use OpenOffice.org that much - they prefer GCompris and Tuxpaint at the moment). Microsoft are just so last century. I haven’t had a computer with Microsoft Office on it for years and years. I don’t miss it. I don’t think my children have ever used Microsoft Office (not that they use OpenOffice.org that much – they prefer GCompris and Tuxpaint at the moment). Microsoft are just so last century.

]]> Comment on MS Office Free by Jose Zaldivar http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-106 Jose Zaldivar Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:07:31 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/ms-office-free/#comment-106 When my 10 year old could not find her way around MS Office 2007, it was time to show her OpenOffice. Her comment "this is so much easier". If the future is in our kids hand, MS Office will need to make things easier for our kids to engage. When my 10 year old could not find her way around MS Office 2007, it was time to show her OpenOffice. Her comment “this is so much easier”. If the future is in our kids hand, MS Office will need to make things easier for our kids to engage.

]]> Comment on le mal du siècle by Gia Lyons http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/le-mal-du-siecle/#comment-104 Gia Lyons Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:00:38 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-104 Well done, sir. ;) Well done, sir. ;)

]]> Comment on View from my room: Lotusphere 2009 by jdavidclarke http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/view-from-my-room-lotusphere-2009/#comment-103 jdavidclarke Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:18 +0000 http://jdavidclarke.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/view-from-my-room-lotusphere-2009/#comment-103 Everything looked fine to me at the time, but apparently a picture paints a thousand slurred and nonsensical words? Everything looked fine to me at the time, but apparently a picture paints a thousand slurred and nonsensical words?

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