Almost all of my writing for many, many years now has been in a text editor using Markdown-formatted text. I’m using Markdown formatting for this blog post (which WordPress then automatically translates into HTML), I’ve written many, many discussion board posts for school in Markdown format before pasting them into BlackBoard, and I use Markdown formatting whenever I’m writing email messages.
Categories: Technology
I’ve been attempting to troubleshoot some issues with sending Excel files back and forth between my Mac at home and a professor who uses a Mac at home and a Windows PC at school. Even though we’re both using current versions of Excel, and though the files opened fine on her Mac, she was having consistent problems on the Windows machine.
Categories: Microsoft,Technology
Tagged: bug, excel, mac, Microsoft, troubleshooting, windows
Microsoft’s partnership with Digital River for electronic distribution of Windows 7 is a customer service nightmare. For the record: as of November 6th, 2009, Digital River’s customer service phone number is (952) 253-1234.
Categories: Internet,Life,Microsoft,Technology
Tagged: customer service, digital river, Microsoft, windows 7
With the news of another weblogger losing his job because of posts on his weblog the issues of what webloggers can and cannot expect to be able to post on their weblogs has started bubbling ‘round the blogosphere again. Now there’s a proposed Bloggers’ Bill of Rights — but how useful is it? And which companies should really be singled out?
Categories: 15Minutes,Microsoft,Weblogs
Tagged: 15 minutes of fame, bill of rights, ellen simonetti, employment, Microsoft, privacy, publishing, rights, Weblogs
This is progress, I think — references to my adventures with Microsoft are now little more than a throw away paragraph in the midst of another article. I really debated posting this, but I am trying to keep track of these things…feel free to just skip on by this one.
Categories: 15Minutes
Tagged: 15 minutes of fame, Microsoft, Weblogs
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