Awesome Space Photo
Feb 24th, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
I love space photos and you can see a wonderful one here daily. Today’s astro pic is wonderful and it’s on my background now.
Microsoft Provides
Documentation for Office Binary Formats
Feb 19th, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
Will wonders never cease? Microsoft has provided documentation for their Office Binary File Formats (doc, xls, ppt). You can download them from that link. This is all in response to the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.
I wonder if someone’s now going to write a program to fix all the damaged Word files we have lying about? […]
Juggler of Worlds…
Feb 8th, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
Fleet of Worlds was simply awesome. Finally, after many years, a book worthy of Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers. And now here’s another Ringworld book! This is set 200 years before Ringworld was discovered, which I assume is 200 years before the Puppeteers find Ringworld but after the Pak have long gone from the scene.
Preorder […]
It’s Baaaack!
Feb 5th, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
My favourite dot com publication, The Industry Standard is back! I’ve only looked at it quickly this AM when I found out the public beta was available.
They have an interesting line up of pundits and seem to be accepting articles from others. I believe they’re restricting articles to no more than 3 per person […]
Where Are They Now?
Feb 2nd, 2008 by lispian in Uncategorized
C-Net News has an interesting article titled Dot-com Pioneers — Where Are They Now?. It’s a list of all those companies that we all read about in The Industry Standard and elsewhere during the late 90s. Some are obviously still around but some have fallen off our radars, though they exist in one form or […]
