An online notebook
Dave Original: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/02/1610202&from=rss Internet Firefox for power users Wednesday December 08, 2004 (02:00 PM GMT) By: Daniel Rubio The Mozilla Firefox browser has garnered wide attention for its capabilities, compared to its predecessor Mozilla and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But in addition to its widely covered speed enhancements and robust security, Firefox offers a rich assortment of … Keep reading
Good article on choosing Openoffice.org over M$ Office (from http://www.pc-tools.net/comment/openoffice/ ) : There are some very good reasons to use OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office, and the best reasons have nothing to do with cost of the software. Although I have regularly used Microsoft Office in the past, I haven’t even had it installed on … Keep reading
Am currently reading On Beulah Height, by Reginald Hill. Not very far into it, but the change of pace is startling after Destination: MORGUE!, I have to admit. There is a distinct paucity of Hill info on the web, just a forgotten author’s page at his publisher’s site, which is a shame. I think I … Keep reading
Here, as promised earlier, is a slightly edited version of my Palimpsest post about James Ellroy: Frankly, James Ellroy is God. He is without doubt the world’s best living crime author, and I’d wager that he’d the best crime writer ever. Fascinating, if horrifying, life, too: his mother was murdered when James was ten, a … Keep reading
The SCO website was cracked this afternoon, with this amusing effort: Very good!