My Geek Notes

Wow, I really, really don’t miss dial-up internet at all. I’m away for the weekend and this was my only option for getting online. I did see a few wireless spots when I booted up, but they were all locked down. Where’s the trust? So I told the guys at work that I’d blog about where we had lunch today and what I had. There is a little cafe out west that’s attached to the school district nutrition facility - yeah, I thought the same thing. Well this cafe has some really fancy sandwiches and some other good dishes. I’m guessing that the school kids aren’t getting the same food, but boy was my Italian sandwich on sour dough complete with artichoke hearts and red peppers good.

As you may have already guessed, Microsoft has not come out with a version of their Office suite for Linux (and I’m guessing they never will), so I’ve become quite accustomed to using Open Office. In fact, I run it as the main office suite on all of my Windows boxes too. Even my wife likes it (at least I think she does), but for free it sure beats Microsoft’s Office suite. Anyway, Open Office just barely released version 2.2 so I’m looking forward to see what’s changed.

It seems like there has been lots happening in the news lately with space, that final frontier. Space.com has an article about how double sunsets are actually pretty common. Who can’t remember the two suns setting on Tatooine, Luke’s home planet? Good stuff. Also, there is an astronaut that will be running the Boston marathon in space; 26.2 miles on a treadmill. I’ll be running it in my dreams. Wish me luck.