If you have more than one computer in your home then you have a home network

Do you have two or more computers in your home? Have you ever wanted to create your own home network so that your computers could share resources such as printers within your home? Have been putting off doing this because you didn’t know how? Which cables to buy? What software to use?
Not to worry. You [...]

Oops! The Gray Lady missed a beat covering the OOXML beat

Only a few hours after writing the post Microsoft Favored to Win Open Document Vote that was based on a story in today’s New York Times, I just learned that the Gray Lady got it wrong:
Microsoft’s bid for ‘open’ document format is unexpectedly rebuffed.
Both stories were written by the same reporter, the Times own [...]

On reading the OOXML specification

As part of my shallow dive into OOXML, the new document format that Microsoft has proposed be made into an international standard, I decided to see if I could locate a copy of the the specification and try to wrap my arms around it, to get a feel for what the community was being [...]

HTML is Many Things

HTML is many things:

It stands for HyperText Markup Language
It is a simple data format
It is used to create documents

HTML can be used to format text in bold, italic
, and to stikestrike out an error

You can use it to divide your writing into paragraphs.
You can use it to created undordered lists:

apples
oranges
bananas

You can use it to [...]

Microsoft Favored to Win Open Document Vote

Turns out I am but one of many trying to navigate the murky waters of OOXML. Our squadron has been joined by Kevin J. O’Brien, who has sent in a report that can be found in the Business Section of the New York Times, September 4, 2007: Microsoft Favored to Win Open Document Vote
Kevin’s report [...]