Good reading material.
- “A Hummer to make you happy?” – Honestly, do you really need that square boat?
- “Dear Holiday Inn” – Wanna stay at a Holiday Inn in Buffalo? Hmm… I think she’d suggest you reconsider.
- “Why I prefer no tabs in source code” – To tab or not to tab? I tab.
- “Outlook 2003 – Thunderbird Smack Down” – I recently switched to Outlook 2003. Of course, it’s freely available to me as a student at Rose, so that helps.
- “Bloody meta” – Not reading material per se, but a funny view, nonetheless. Violence warning.
- A review of Sheila Jeffrey’s Beauty And Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices In The West – I haven’t read the book in question, but in the review, Krista questions where the blame should really lay for women’s subordination in our culture.
- “Fold n Drop” – For those that don’t read Slashdot and therefore rely on their SOs to get all INDIGNANT about the latest tech issues, Fold n Drop is an interesting potential paradigm shuffle in user interfaces.
- “Successful Strategies for Commenting Code” – Courtesy of Luke, this preachily-titled page gives advice on commenting source code to aid with readibility. Not a bad read.
I have always liked Microsoft Office. Especially when they make new start up pictures. That is worth the upgrade right there.
I’m actually not a fan of having calendar, tasks, fortune teller, chauffeur, and preacher all in one program, like Outlook does, but I respect its integration with Exchange at Rose. I also don’t mind having the options for using Outlook calendar/tasks to manage some of the shit in my life, even if I don’t immediately jump on it.
As for the rest of the office suite–while I respect OpenOffice (and use it), there are some things that MS Office simply has the advantage in feature-wise due to the maturity of the product.
I like Exchange and the meeting requests. At work you can reserve conference rooms, labs, equipment, etc through Outlook.
Yeah, that’s definitely one of the benefits of Exchange–we’ve been able to get rid of Corporate Time, too, which made a lot of folks at TSC happy.