Archive | June, 2009
K'Naan Troubadour

Listening to: K’Naan

I’m a dreamer but I ain’t the only one | Got problems, but we love to have fun | This is our world, from here to your hood | We alive man, it’s okay to feel good Delivered in a sing-song that’s not entirely unlike Jay-Z’s 2003 single ’99 Problems’ (but without the menace), ‘Dreamer’ [...]

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Fuzzy graphics & font problems when creating PDFs

Have you ever experienced this? You write a document in Microsoft Word, inserting images – charts or illustrations – along the way. Maybe you’re using a business drawing program to create them, like Microsoft Visio or SmartDraw. In Word, everything looks fine: the images show up smoothly, using the fonts you stipulated when creating them: [...]

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How to (reliably) make PDFs in Office 2007

For many users, Microsoft’s PDF and XPS Converter for Office 2007 simply doesn’t work. It’s not that I have anything against it per se, but it seems to be plagued by a bug: some users can use it without any issues; other users always get this error message: “The file is in use by another [...]

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The Kills – The Good Ones

Completely amazing, messy, crazy video by The Kills. From their first album, No Wow. Which I still like more than their second record, Midnight Boom.

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