What's That Noise?! [Ian Kallen's Weblog]
Thursday March 18, 2004
MS-Word to your mutha At first nobody I spoke to about work options cared about what format my resume was presented in; the plaintext I could generate via XSLT or the web-based resume itself was sufficient. Recently though, HR/recruiting types want to see it in MS-Word.
It never ceases to amaze me how a product such as Word can be so easy for the straight forward things but get so messed up as soon as things get a little complicated. I went through what I was planning on being a quick exercise in pasting the plain text in to Word's "Elegant Resume" template but I found that formatting defaults carried in by Window's clipboard were not desirable and in fact, the template itself had some things in it that required adjustment. Next thing you know, Word is crashing every other minute. At first I threw up my hands and tried getting what I needed to get done in OpenOffice but it's word processing application also blows as soon as you need to do anything slightly complicated. I went back to Word and finally got it to behave by walking through all of the table cells, selecting the text blocks and removing all of the pasted in formatting attributes; letting Word just use the default fonting attributes from the template seemed to make it much happier.
Well, it's done for now and posted online. Given how deficient the OpenOffice word processor is, MS-Word continues to be a necessary evil. And OpenOffice's only application that is remotely useful is the presentation (Powerpoint replacement) application.
( Mar 18 2004, 08:40:33 AM PST )
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Wednesday February 25, 2004
subversion released! It's been a long time coming, but I'm very pleased to hear the announcement that subversion has gone one-dot-oh!
I've been an Apache user for a long time now and interested in WebDAV for years, so it's been with much anticipation that I've watched (from afar, anyway) the subversion project develop. While CVS will likely be in our midst for years to come, it's nice to know that a robust source control alternative (other than Perfor$e) is ready to roll.
Someday, real soon maybe, I'm going to setup a subversion repository for personal use as well as for publishing code. Putting it on my TODO list now...
( Feb 25 2004, 12:29:13 PM PST )
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Monday February 23, 2004
It's the most wonderful time of the year Perhaps I'm a latino-phile, I dunno.
I've never been to latin america (unless Florida counts). I've never been to Mardi Gras either. But this is the time of the year when the news is filled with pictures of Carnival in Brazil and other great places. And I think it's awesome.
Public displays of non-inhibition are not always pretty but the pictures of the various Carnival celebrations are truly splendiferous. Just a nice reminder that the accepted American narrative of normal and appropriate behavior is clearly deficient.
( Feb 23 2004, 12:03:00 PM PST )
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