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Sometimes you’re the windshield… June 14, 2007

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I was a little disappointed by the events of this past week. Friends and family who know me are familiar with what I am talking about. The ultimate outcome of these events is that something that I wanted to do will now be delayed at least by a few years. At worst, it may never happen. I personally like to think in terms of “if this is the worst thing that happens to me, I will have lived a fantastic life.” Other’s have put it more succinctly as “you just gotta keep on keepin’ on.” The best one I ever heard was “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.”

Safari Browser - Now on Windows June 11, 2007

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I installed Safari’s beta version today and noticed a few things immediately: 1) Fonts seem significantly smoother (similar to “ClearType”) and “rounder” compared to IE and FireFox and 2) Pages do seem to be loading faster in Safari than they do in both IE and FireFox.

Ever since IE 4 was released, I have been a die hard IE fan. Regardless of any security holes, crashes or any other shortcomings, I simply liked IE. No amount of evidence, geek advice or nagging was sufficient to make me move from IE to anything else. Unfortunately, IE 7 has been a huge disappointment.

In search of a new browser, I moved to FireFox because I liked using the various extensions that it has. I am now primarily a FireFox user and will use IE only if necessary. In fact, I am wondering why I didn’t give in to FireFox earlier.

Now that Safari is out, I will see how it goes. Let me know what you think of Safari. I am not particularly happy with it on my Mac because a lot of pages (especially those with text input fields) simply don’t work right with it. Perhaps now that it is available for the Windows platform, it will gain the widespread acceptance that is required to motivate providers to make their web content Safari-friendly. For now, I will give Safari a try for a few days.

Revert OneNote 2007 Files to OneNote 2003 June 8, 2007

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Does anyone know of a method/application that can convert OneNote 2007 files to OneNote 2003?

One method that has been suggested to me is to have both applications open and then copy and paste from one to the other.

This particular method is not very practical. Does anyone know of any other method?

Please email me or leave a comment for others to see as well.

Thanks.

 Follow Up on July 17, 2007:  During the last month, I have done several searches but have not found anything. I think I am just going to have to use OneNote 2007 for now. My real issue was the overall sluggishness of Office 2007. I actually liked OneNote 2007 better than 2003 because of the new interface that allows quick access to all notebooks. I have found that Office 2003 and OneNote 2007 can coexist without issues. So, that is the set-up that I am using now. If you have found, or were unable to find a way to revert these files, please leave a comment about your experience.

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