Microsoft Says, "Steal This UI"

Summary: Earlier this year, I said that Office 2007 is the bravest upgrade ever, and the reason was simple: The audacity of introducing a radical new user...

Geeking in Excel Again

It’s an all-Office day today. The Globe and Mail embraces the bad pun with “ Stressed? Busy? Excel-erate your life “. Tralee Pearce amusingly asserts that “The...

Just the Links: Meaningful?

Alright, you deserve some links. Currently enjoying: Discopop ! Every recent post’s a winner. About Making Something Meaningful , Brad Feld has some nice words...

Connected Documents

I’ll pay $100 to the first person who figures out how to make SubEthaEdit (worst name ever! I still call it Hydra) and OneNote service pack ‘s document-editing...

Bundling is not enough

The conventional wisdom with a lot of the software industry is that Microsoft can just bundle any reasonably decent application into the Office suite, even if...

save-time XSL transforms

If you take a look at the developer documentation that’s just becoming available with the release of the first beta, you’ll see that Office 11 supports XSL...

office questions

Why does your office use Microsoft Office, if it does? Which programs in Office do you use?

Holly R4NTs

Hey, whadaya know? My coworker Holly ‘s photos have showed up over at R4NT , right there amidst all the art and next to the interview with Chuck D. Why, if...

application metering APIs

Speaking of missed opportunities in programming interfaces, why don’t mainstream Windows applications support usage metering at the function level? Meaning,...

cheesy teeth

Partial transcript of an Actual Phone Call from one of the crazy people at our office: Remember what the doctor said? Well, y’know how he said not to eat...

vending machines

I sit by the vending machines on my floor at my office. I always get to hear people pace back and forth between them, considering the many equally horrible...

Outside my office today and

Outside my office today and yesterday, the wind had shifted again. It still smells like That Tuesday when I leave work. The smell also lingers, appropriately,...