10,000 Firefoxers
Finally the Firefox two full pages ad on New York Times is out. I had a hard time finding my name on it:
And an ever harder task seems to be printing this pdf beast! Well, I guess I’ll have to buy the poster 
World Champions
The European / South American (Toyota Cup) is ours.
After 120 minutes, where we only saw F.C. Porto trying to win the game and Once Caldas desperate to get to the penalty kicks (as their golakeeper was a supposed penaltyt kick expert) the final result served justice well.
During the game F.C. Porto saw two goals disalowed for pretense offside (the second one clearly wasn’t) and four balls hitting the posts and the crossbar.
In the end the best team won and all is well!
Seventeen years later F.C. Porto is once again crowned the best team of the world.
Dimebag Darrel shot dead!!!
Just read it on BBC NEWS: Pantera’s ex-guitarrist Dimebag Darrel as been shot dead during a concert in Ohio.
Playlist meme
1. Open up the music player on your computer.
2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or journal and then post a link in the comments.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or journal and then post a link in the comments.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of ten song with five artists, you can if you’d like.
My List (From 64 Artists, 103 albums, 1234 musics, 5GB):
- Pantera / Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills
- Rage Against the Machine / CIA - Criminals In Action
- Anathema / Scars of the Old Stream
- Lyambiko / Some Other Time
- Metallica / And Justice For All
- Jane Monheit / My Foolish Heart
- Guns ‘n’ Roses / Rocket Queen
- Less Than Jake / Jen Doesn’t Like Me Anymore
- The Offspring / Original Prankster
- Pluto / Entre Nós
One more step towards a better Office
One of the features Linux needs to address in order to be a real alternative to the other OS is a decent Officce suite. Every day we are getting closer to a usable alternative. The three major components that need to be addresses are, in no particular order: Text Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentations.
The Text Processor
According to Slashdot, AbiWord 2.2 has been released today and besides numerous bugfixes it has some great new features like Mac OS X support and Text Wrapped Images.
IMHO AbiWord its still not ready to work with Real Documents ™. For that I still use LaTeX and its nice frontend Lyx.
The Spreadsheet
Suprisingly the spreadsheet has been the first issue to be taken care of with Gnumeric. Gnumeric really is one of those Open Source projects that are one step ahead of the others.
Presentations
What we didn’t have was a Presentation Application. But that seems to be changing. As today I found out there is a new (old?) project ou there calles Criawips. Criawips seems to be a very active project and going in the right direction although it’s still a very imature product.
The Suite
What’s even nicer is that AbiWord and Gnumeric already have some kind of interaction between them, with users being able to copy objects from one into the other. This two products already are part of a bigger picture: GNOME Office. Maybe will see Criawips joining in the near future.
The Footnote
And for those that are wondering: Yes I know OpenOffice, but for me, a cramped application suite that takes 5-10 minutes to open isn’t even an alternative.
