Office 2007 - Cheap and good!

jafoca | August 22, 2008

office1 Office 2007 - Cheap and good!People like to hate on Microsoft.  People REALLY like to hate on Vista.  I feel that is mostly because (unfortunately for Obama) people are resistant to change.

Regardless of those feelings, anybody who has bothered to give Vista’s sister product, Office 2007, a proper try have nothing but praise for the latest offering of the office suite.  It is more user friendly, and quicker to work with at the same time.

Microsoft is making an incredible offer to students again this year, $59.95 for the entire office 2007 Ultimate (the big one) suite.  Very nice.  I took advantage last year, and am going to try to get another copy so that I can run Groove on more than one of my systems.  =P

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China fakes Olympics - again and again and…

jafoca | August 21, 2008

I have really enjoyed watching the Olympics this summer.  The opening ceremony was spectacular, world records are being

via Editrix on Flickr

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broken almost every day, and Michael Phelps has just been a phenom in the pool - which is great.

However, I can’t help but feeling that there is something of a taint over the games this time around.  Amid accusations of doping it is hard enough to enjoy sports that have lost some levels of legitimacy (at least I am confident that Phelps is not doping…), yet China has been cheating the Olympics in another way - repeatedly.

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HTML Doctype declaration - Can really mess you up!

jafoca | August 20, 2008

So yesterday we discovered a bug in the Blue Sky Sessions website.  I think that I probably introduced it when I was fiddling with getting our contact form looking pretty last week, although I have no idea how as the contact form is not presented with the portfolio where the bug occurred.  The bug consisted of the entire layout being shifted to the left hand side of the screen from its normal centered position, quite embarrassing.  It only happened in IE, and was only on one of our pages.

Anyhow - I took to looking at the code and found that structurally the template was exactly the same as the other pages, so it should have been centered.  I really could not find this bug!  Getting frustrated, I asked Barry (my boss / coworker) to have a look at it.  After deleting most of the page he noticed that I was missing an HTML DOCTYPE declaration.  Yuck.htmlsvg1-263x300 HTML Doctype declaration - Can really mess you up!

He put this in and of course (silly me, I should have thought of that…) it worked.  The doctype tells the browser how to parse the HTML code, I did not realize that it had actual importance to interpretation so I was not too attentive to it in the past.

An example doctype declaration is:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

So anyway, if you are having goofy HTML bugs then be sure to check out your doctype.  An excellent reference for anything HTML is w3schools.

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Testing iphone wordpress

jafoca | August 19, 2008

Testing the stuff and the things. This is a test of the iPhone wordpress program.

Testing iphone wordpress

Oops- photos don’t work with my configuration…

matt Scott is gone :(

Woohoo! Photo blogging from my phone now works!

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Calling out Mr. Jobs - Apple had better deliver soon

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apple-logo1-150x150 Calling out Mr. Jobs - Apple had better deliver soonApple currently holds the number 1 position when it comes to luxury laptop computer sales.  It isn’t hard to see why either, the computers are almost literally seamless and the operating system works without nearly as many compromises as windows machines require.  OSX has all the shine of Vista without any of the nightmares.  Apple is just on top of things at them moment, with their market share “exceeding that of google” (via slashdot).

There is one looming issue however - Apple has yet to release a successor to the MacBook Pro, or even an update to the recently launched Intel Centrino 2 architecture.

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