Notes

There were awards Sunday or Monday night. Not sure. I’m disgusted by the pomp of all those award shows. People put way too much effort and emphasis on such dribble. They could run a soup kitchen or give the money to a highway cleanup effort and get more done for humanity.

If you understood how PDF files are constructed, you would understand why it has taken twenty years to make Microsoft Word edit them. I found some instructions that say you can just open PDF files and modify them in Office 2013. That’s cool, but it sounds like the formatting gets jumbled a bit. I doubt I will get hold of 2013 for a couple years yet so they may have the bugs swept out.

Wish I could blog about the very different attitudes at the new big company. Things are massively different on some fronts.

There are riots and protests going on in France. There is a socialist president in charge. He got in on a save jobs and make France competitive ticket. He is no vilified as a fiscal disciplinarian. The word of the day is “cut”. People shout for nationalization to save industries that are losing money and failing.

I broke another set of cheap headphones today. I ran them over for the 35th time and they broke. Junk. Anyway, I used my backpack pair of headphones. I need a source for $1.25 earbuds. Really cheap. That or wireless. Maybe that would make them last longer. That seems to be what kills them around me. The wires get caught on things as I whizz past on my way to work on something else. Any ideas out there?