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Open Office 2.0 Released

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

I was pleased to spot that the final version of Open Office 2.0 has been released. For the unitiated it’s an open source office suite which is compatible with Microsoft Office.
The major benefit is, of course, that being open source, it’s also free!!

Check it out for yourself at OpenOffice.org: Home.

Technorati Tags: computers, software

What the Flock?

Friday, October 21st, 2005

I’m blogging today in a new browser I’ve just downloaded. It’s called Flock and I found out about it over at PhotoMatt.net.
It seems to me that it’s based on the Mozilla Gecko platform but the thing that sets it apart are the built in features for blogging and other similar online activities. I’m currently [...]

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Happy Birthday to me!!! Thirty-one years old today and all set for much more fun than last year.
Today I’m jetting off to Dublin for a week there with the Rat Pack tour. It brings the tour full circle for me; my first week depping on the show was in Dublin during May last year. Anyway, [...]

With Wynton Marsalis

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

With Wynton Marsalis
After years of being a fan, I finally got to meet Wynton at the 2nd after session after his concert in Manchester. Fantastic!!
Sadly, this photo reveals a slight inebriation on my part but Mr Marsalis was a true gent anyway!
Uploaded by tptboy on 5th October, 2005.

The [...]

New Sound Clips

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

The astute return visitor to this site will notice that I’ve revamped the Sound Clips page with a new Flash-based MP3 Player! I decided that it was probably the easiest way to make my sound clips as widely available as possible. Anyway, to celebrate, I dug around through some recordings and came up with a [...]