OK, since this is say something nice about Microsoft day:
I withdraw about half my complaints about the way Word exports to html. If you make sure to use styles properly, meaning absolutely nothing is formatted via the font buttons on the tool bar, and 100% of formatting is done via named styles (either built-in or custom ones you create) it creates a nice CSS based pages, with 100% of formatting handled in CSS. It still uses way too many hard coded font sizes, margins, and table and cell widths. But if you are consistent in your style naming conventions you can modify the definitions one time, and put them in a style sheet. From then on cut out everything inside the style tag in the filtered web page , and replace it with an include statement pointing to the style sheet your created from your first save.
Since I once asked about this problem, and never got a great answer, I'm assuming this is new to somebody.
Quite frankly my word processing history goes back to before styles were in included in word processors. (Actually, it goes back to line editors. Giving away my age here.) So my current document is the first one I've created where I used styles properly, rather than directly applying formatting commands. But honestly, it never occurred to me that if you used styles properly Word would reward you with easy to modify html.
Hope somebody finds this tip useful.
PlayStation tackles big questions
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Evil Jimi's link makes me wonder: Playstation cluster - the next must have tool for digital animation?
If Sony could temporarily overcome their tendency to screwup their marketing and customer relations, they would put a little money into encouraging that to happen. Subsidize the development of some great animation software (with both a professional and a low end version, and some games that take advantage of clusters too. Watch sales skyrocket because one PS3 (or PS5 or whatever) is not enough any more.
This is Sony, though. The people who let VHS beat BetaMax because they wanted to keep it expensive and proprietary. The people who put root kits on their freaking music CDs. Not gonna happen.
Yeah, Blu-Ray is something like one out of five. Cause they screwed a lot in between BetaMax and Rootkits. But, fair point. Cause for (some) hope.
New Macbooks and MacBook Pros out today.
I might have to pick up the new 17" in a few months.
I'll probably be getting some sort of MacBook or MacBook Pro soon, too.
I just have to figure out how to get rid of my G5 tower.
I still have my G5 Tower sitting under my desk, unplugged.
Is Apple ever gonna release a MacBook Pro smaller than 15"?
I totally want a Pro, but I love the 13" size of the MacBook. But the Pro has an aluminum case which would better protect it if I ever fell on it....
I'm leaning towards replacing my desktop. I probably need a better reason, though. I don't need much bells and whistles. I could do with something *much* smaller and quieter--I keep it on 24/7 and the fan seems so noisy these days.
Given I've sworn off Dell due to extreme support issues, what's a good brand to start off with? HP?
