For the 12 of you that shared your opinions about whether or not you’d be upgrading to the newest, final version of Office 2007, you can now pre-order at Amazon.com
If you haven’t already voted in our poll and let us know if you’ll be upgrading, we’re always interested in how and what you’re thinking.
You may remember an article I wrote awhile back that talked about the changes to HTML support in Outlook 2007. They stopped using the IE7 rendering engine in favor of using the Word HTML engine. Doesn’t make much sense does it?
Molly E. Holzschlag took it upon herself to investigate the issue further and get a direct answer from Microsoft on the reason for the change.
To that end I took the question to colleagues at Microsoft in order to see what I could find out. I have to admit that after having been so focused on working with IE7 and other prioritizations, it never occurred to me or anyone else at WaSP in the Microsoft / WaSP Task Force to even ask about rendering in Office products. What a kerfuffle, as Lou would tell Andy in Little Britain.
You can read her post, What Really Happened with HTML and CSS in Outlook 2007, on her website and get all the details. It still doesn’t make sense to me though on their reasons for the change.
?A man I greatly respect and loved is retiring as president from my alma mater, Mount Vernon Nazarene University. I don’t think I’ve ever met another individual that was in a level of leadership as high as he was, yet still remained as humble and accessible as the most invisible person in a organizational hierarchy. Dr. Fairbanks, you will be missed and your shoes will remain unfilled. I trust your replacement will do an excellent job of continuing to move the University forward, but your shoes will never be filled by another individual. You were unique and a blessing to everyone you met. Thank you!
The article below was taken from the NCN News.
Fairbanks addresses MVNU community for final time as president
Mount Vernon, Ohio–On Thursday, January 25, E. LeBron Fairbanks addressed the Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) community for the final time as its president. The service took place in the R.R. Hodges Chapel/Auditorium and was open to the public. As the institution’s fifth president, Fairbanks has faithfully served MVNU and the surrounding Knox County, Ohio community for 18 years. During his tenure, much growth and change was witnessed by all on MVNU’s campus:
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There have been a few things, however, that did not and will not change. Through Fairbanks’ years at MVNU, he and those in his charge have challenged students to:?
In the days ahead, Fairbanks and his wife, Anne, who has been equally dedicated in serving MVNU and its constituents, will spend a few months in Florida following the February 1 transition date for incoming president Daniel Martin. Fairbanks intends to finish writing a book he has been working on for several years. In addition, he will chair a Missional Review team assessing the Church of the Nazarene International Board of Education (IBOE) and the Education Commissioner.The Fairbanks will then travel to The Netherlands in late March where LeBron will participate in meetings of the International Course of Study Advisory Committee (ICOSAC) and IBOE. They also plan to return to European Nazarene College (EuNC) for the fall 2007 semester to teach in EuNC’s extension program throughout Europe.
MVNU held a Farewell Celebration for the Fairbanks in December, where they were honored with a variety of tributes, memories, and recognitions. They will be sorely missed at MVNU and within the community.
–MVNU (Note: All funds expressed in U.S. dollars.)
I was recently interviewed by Aaron Brazell for his Suicide Fan Sports Podcast. The topic of discussion was Superbowl 41 and the Colts vs. Bears match-up. I of course was siding with the Colts.
Aaron thinks the media is making too big of a deal about two African-American head coaches making it to the Superbowl. I do think it’s a pretty big deal. I’d rank it right up there with the first African-American to win any type of major award like a Grammy, Oscar, etc., which of course has already happened.
A little over a week to go before the big match-up. In the podcast I projected a 21 point win by the Colts over the Bears. I’m feeling pretty good about the prediction. We’ll see how it plays out in the real world.
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If anyone feels the urge, I would be more than happy to accept tickets from anyone that wanted to buy them for me for the Harry Connick, Jr. concert that will be occuring in a couple of months.
The crooner will be in concert at the Murat Theater here in Indianapolis on March 14, 2007. Tickets range from $40 to $70 dollars. I’ve seen him in concert once at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. He gave a great performance! I had pretty good seats too. I’d come close to paying the $70 for the best tickets I could get.
I recently followed a link on my Google homepage that was about “How to Use a Paint Roller”. I followed the link and it took me to the wikiHow website.
The website was very helpful and actually timely to some degree. Earlier this week I had helped a couple in our small group paint their nursery for their new baby that was coming on Wednesday morning. It was a very small room, but even then some of the tips and directions provided by the website would have come in handy. In fact I really like the idea of using a 5-gallon bucket instead of a disposable tray. The bucket would be much easier to keep unused paint fresh as well.
There’s plenty more good information available on the wikiHow website as well. You can learn about things like:
There’s much more available as well. And, since it’s a wiki, you can add your own details and help improve the instructions for everyone coming behind you.
Check ‘em out and learn something new, or share you own knowledge at wikiHow.
I’m getting the following error in WordPress 2.1 when I try to write a new post or edit an existing post from the “Manage>Posts” path within the Admin interface.
I’m running through my plug-in’s now to see if one of them might be the culprit. What’s weird is that if I publish the post, then go to the site and click on the edit link from the post itself that’s published, I can edit it with no problems. Is that weird? Anyone else getting that?
I should have listened closer to Aaron when I had the chance.
I received an e-mail yesterday from the Microsot OneCare Beta team letting me know the beta program would be ending at the end of February and I would need to uninstall and purchase a full version of the software.
We wanted to give you advance notice that the (v1.5) beta will be coming to a close at the end of February, and that your OneCare beta service will expire by March 2007 (or sooner, depending when you installed the beta). After your service expires, you won’t receive new Virus and spyware definitions or other OneCare updates. To continue your OneCare protection, you will have to uninstall OneCare and then reinstall the released version of the product. We strongly urge you to do so.
They don’t need to twist my arm at all to purchase this software. I’ve been very happy with it and will continue to use it. If you need a great security application and have more than one computer at home this is a great program for you. A single license provides the rights to install the Windows Live OneCare software on up to three machines. Interestingly enough, that’s how many machines I’ve got at home right now. Perfect!
You know what I’d really like? I’d really like for the Google Reader to be available as a tab in my personalized Google HomePage. Just like the image above shows. Why isn’t that possible? As far as that goes, I think the various Google apps should be available as tabs. Why should I have to load another page to see those items?
Other Google apps I use all the time that I would like to see embedded as tabs is Google Maps or Google Local, Google News.
Greatest comeback in AFC or NFC Championship Game history! What a game! We’ll see you in Miami! Congratulations to Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy for being the first African-American coaches in the Superbowl, and here they do it together.
Have you ever wanted to ask a b5 blogger a question, but it wasn’t directly related to their blog? Or, just wanted to find out what it was about the b5 community that makes it so special? Now you can get a little peek and taste of what goes on in the previously private b5 forums. We’ve added a couple of different forums to our group and opened them up to the public so we can all interact and share with everyone.
What are you waiting for now? Come and join us in the b5media public forums.
Ever since I heard of blogging and decided to setup my own blog, I’ve been using WordPress. After expanding my blogging career by grabbing a spot in the b5media network, I’ve become more and more involved with WordPress. Now I’ve begun using WordPress as a CMS option for many of my web clients that don’t have the budgets to afford other options, or my time whenever they need their website updated.
After all that time, I wish I would have had posts like the recent one by fellow b5′er Aaron Brazell. Over on his personal site, Technosailor, you can read 10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1.
If you have any contact at all with WordPress, you should be sure and read this post. I’m now off to see how the changes are going to impact my installations and plug-ins I’m using for clients.
