Date

It would be so easy for me to loose myself in time. I understand how people let years slip by. I need to have the present day's date written near me. I would loose track of everything if I let it go.

This makes me like blogs and computers in general because everything that happens on a computer has a date/time associated with it. This is important because copmuters, like people and all of existence, exist in the 'now'. Things that do not have a date/time associated with them are not properly kept track of.

There was a time when only the end product of documents, the final cut was important. Now every keystroke and mouse move has a log entry that links it back to who did it and when. Why may be coming to a log near you soon.

In politics, this feature is more and more important. The 23 minutes of blank tape come to mind from Nixon's audio log. He thought he was doing a good thing by keeping an audio log. To this day, I wander if he and the nation would have been better off if had not. That horse has left the barn.

The technology is there to make everyone carry some kind of black box in their pocket that records every utterance. I'm quite sure someone somewhere has to ware one to fulfill their job requirements. Not sure off the top of my head who might. I'm thinking firefighters in a nuclear facility. Cops have dash cams and I believe many police radios have a black box feature along with some kind of location awareness. It is all a rich tapestry.

What was I blogging about? Oh, the date.

I figured out how to get the correct date format in Google Docs. You put a tick, also know as a high comma, inverted comma or apostrophe at the beginning of a cell in the spreadsheet cell and the auto fuckup correct is disabled for that cell. The apostrophe is not displayed.

This is great, but I had to find this out by having the same problem in Open Office and pooring through the help there. I then tried the same thing in Google Docs and had luck. The fix is probably in the help for Google Docs, but I didn't find it. 

Looks like I won't be bothering with Microsoft Office Live.

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