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by the way, the odf plugin for ms office i referred to a few days ago is available for download. quoting the mentioned site:

The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is now available.

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This initial plug-in application will support the conversion of text documents (.doc/.odt) only and full support of spreadsheet and presentation documents will be available in the final version, expected in April. The converter is easy to setup and use, the conversion happens transparently and the additional memory footprint is minimal. Microsoft Word users now can have seamless two-way conversion of Microsoft Word’s documents to and from ODF.

download the plugin for free and smash the office monopoly! (hey, that rhimes)

hah, how great is that?! according to a press release sun just announced the release of an opendocument (odf) plugin for microsoft word based on staroffice or openoffice respectively in a few days. odf-plugins for all other microsoft office programs are expected to be released in april 2007.

thanks to erwin for pointing this out.

guys, this might be a bit off-topic from my other stuff in this blog, but i just have to say that and one rock sh*t! for all who don’t know who they are: and one is a german band playing a mix of synthpop and electronic body music (ebm). i attended their concert in magdeburg’s factory on saturday the 25th november of 2006: nearly three hours full of powerful rythms, a great voice (live quite as perfect as on the cd-recordings) and helluva fun. still today i am running around with a perfectly happy grin on my face… great stuff!

chris maestro has some nice pictures of and one on stage, although none of the current tour can be found on flickr. i guess they will be published soon as the concerts pass by.

did i already mention that i need a decent design for this blog? yes, sire! feel free to contribute, your lordliness.

this is my last working day for august. by tomorrow i’ll be on vacation. we’re going on a trip to mallorca for one week and will settle the rest of the free days in the berlin-brandenburg area. so possibly no posts on this blog for the rest of august. i may post pictures of me naked on the beach of palma de mallorca or so. stay tuned.

now this is the first post in my fresh and funky blog. unluckily, this is not a very special day nor date. august the 8… hmm, nothing very special happened on this day in history (at least to me), according to wikipedia and bbc : nixon resigned from oval office (1974), bhutan became independent (1949) and emiliano zapata was born (1879).

you see? this day is damn boring.

the perfect day to start the soon-to-be-infamous blog by stotti!