Catwalker

Just had to share this, it is so true: The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term: Political Correctness. "Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Well, the project I started previously:

Micro controller Programmer

Is basically complete and functional, just needing expansion boards now. The big hold up was gaining access to a functional programmer in order to program it (ironic - needing a programmer to make a programmer work :))

Later this week I will make photos of the next bevy of projects, all to do with music.

じゃまた

Well, my last post was a while ago (what else is new? :) ) So I have been doing some electronics and in the next week or so will post some shots of the boards and semi - completed projects. (All of the projects I am working on right now will combine into one big project, so a bunch of sub assemblies need to be completed before I can show off the final project)

Stay tuned.

I am well known for being a despiser of all things Microsoft and Apple, therefore I need an alternative. My chosen alternative is Linux. At the moment I use the Ubuntu release. It works well and is fairly easy to manage. As a part of this I use OpenOffice, which works really well. B*U*T there are some things which are seriously in need of fixing:

• Word count is broken
• Select, cut and paste is flaky

What do I mean by word count is broken? It counts all words in a document, even the footnotes. When you do a university paper most profs won't let you include the footnotes in the number of words your document contains. Footnotes can add 1000 or more words to a document. And select and count doesn't work properly either. If I want a more-or-less accurate word count, I still have to use M$ Word to do it. Now cut and paste is flaky in that when using the mouse you select a block of text, the right click to select often the block you just selected will de-select itself, then you have to re-select it. This is no big deal, if you just remember to use the keyboard shortcut ctl-c/x depending on whether you want to copy or cut. If the good folks working on OO would fix these two hiccups I would be very happy indeed.