We were just about to leave the house this AM when my other half remembered we still had to print something. The laptop was already logged into Ubuntu and I thought “Hell, everything else has been so easy, I’ll give it a go”. I added a printer and printed the document in about two minutes. I was as simple, if not more simple than windows. Excellent.

Just spotted something awesome while watching the extras on my Iron Man 2 Blu-Ray.  During the “Practical Meets Digital” featurette you’ll see an ILM guy applying a dust map to the Mark II suit and he appears to be using a GNOME desktop, Firefox and Thunderbird.  Cool.

I had an email today from an employee of Tribal Group PLC – for those that don’t know they get a massive number of ICT contracts from the British government.

Anyway, this employee, no doubt under a multi-million pound contract, requested I complete a form and return said form via email.  However, rather than send me the form they directed me to where I could download it.  They didn’t provide a direct link.

Having found the form I discover it is in PDF format, with no editable fields.  So I email my contact and say as much.  They respond with the following:

“it is in the format of a pdf document so that it cannot be altered.”

That doesn’t seem the best format for something you are asking people to alter to me.

The employee goes on to suggest I print, complete, scan and email the form.

I don’t think I’ll bother.  After all, I’m not getting paid to admin the multi-million pound contract.

March 9th 2010

I’m a convert. FireFox has been my browser of choice for the last 7 years and I loved it. I never intended to switch to Chrome, as with all the best products I just found I needed it.

July 21st 2010

I’ve converted back.  Again, not a decision based on preference but necessity.  Chrome has some great features for web development and I will use them again but for general browsing it just eats memory.  And it’s slow.