Last Thursday I was in Stirling for a presentation in the morning. I took the train out, so that I was able to be out there for the start of the presentation at 9:30. Unfortunately as I was travelling before 10am and it was not yet July or August, I had to pay the full… Continue reading Cycling: Stirling to Glasgow
Month: June 2007
Getting plain text logs from Colloquy
In the process of putting the log files of the Mac OS X porting meeting logs up on to the OpenOffice.org Wiki, I have been having a few problems. This has primarily been due to the location of new lines. To day I asked on Colloquy’s IRC channel, and found that there is a simple… Continue reading Getting plain text logs from Colloquy
Stats for the OpenOffice.org download bouncer
Many of the OpenOffice.org national language teams will be happy with the following announcement. There are now Download Statistics being produced for the downloads from the bouncer. The stats are generated once daily around 08:05 UTC. Inside the stats folder you will find a series of folders with dates as their name. Inside each of… Continue reading Stats for the OpenOffice.org download bouncer
Spaces around colons
Today I discovered why it is that the French have been placing a space in front of colons (:), and it has been driving me mad. In English it is usually seen as being wrong to place a space before a colon. However according to Lars Aronsson on the lingu-dev mailing list, it is normal… Continue reading Spaces around colons
Cycling: Edinburgh to North Berwick
Last Night I took a cycle out to Prestonpans. I then took the train to North Berwick for £2.50, and cycled all the way back to Edinburgh. I was originally going to cycle to North Berwick, though unfortunately I had a head wind, which would have meant I would have missed the last train from… Continue reading Cycling: Edinburgh to North Berwick
Dissertation Finally Complete
I’ve now completed my dissertation and handed it in. I completed the presentation this morning. So now that it’s over, I can get on with some real work and hopefully earn some money. I found the presentation quite tough to write (though no where near as tough as the dissertation), as I didn’t think I… Continue reading Dissertation Finally Complete
Safari 3.0 Beta
I’m taking the new Safari 3.0 Beta for a test drive. I have to say, I’m quite impressed with it in many ways. For the past few months I’ve been using Camino, as it has had a few features that Safari didn’t have. Safari is now a lot faster than before. Buttons are being custom… Continue reading Safari 3.0 Beta
UK Government gives response to OpenDocument online petition
The UK (Westminster) Government has given a response to the petition on a petition calling on the UK Government to use the OpenDocument format for the storage of documents.Read the UK Government’s response to the OpenDocument Petition It seems that they are making no firm commitment to use the OpenDocument format, though are continually reviewing… Continue reading UK Government gives response to OpenDocument online petition
OpenOffice.org Aqua’s first in depth review
The first in depth review of OpenOffice.org Aqua that I have come across is by Greg Kefalas. This is a four part series starting today, so more information in the coming days. I’ll add links to the other parts of the review as they become available.Part onePart twoPart three Many of the problems mentioned are… Continue reading OpenOffice.org Aqua’s first in depth review
First OpenOffice.org Aqua snapshot released
The first development snapshot of OpenOffice.org Aqua has been released into the wild. There is still a lot of work to do, and there has been some progress already since the snapshot was produced. This snapshot can be downloaded from the OpenOffice.org Aqua Mac Download page There are a number of things that still don’t… Continue reading First OpenOffice.org Aqua snapshot released