A life in words

  • OpenOffice

    I’d also like to say that in general OpenOffice.org is a pretty lame piece of software. is rather good but has quite a number of areas for improvement (sorry about the previous negative attitude 😉 First off, does it even use a standard GUI toolkit? No. Why not? Because it’s legacy software: OO.o has a…

  • Cute Girls

    They look wonderful. They smell wonderful. They’re wonderful to hug. I’m a big fan of cute girls. In other Ramblings… I love to spend time with people. Really, I love to. That’s why this first half of the semester is driving me crazy. I’m taking a First Block class that requires at least 10 hours…

  • “That’s a Promise!”

    In a recent interview, KDE developer Zack Rusin made some bold and (from my point of view) much-welcomed promises about the future of the Linux Desktop as a result of the Plasma and (by implication) Appeal subprojects of KDE: Plasma will blow you away. Nothing you’ve ever seen or will see in the coming years…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883