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’ [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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- I learned what a stud finder is yesterday. I even bought one. I feel enlightened somehow. As if I can look through walls. 5 hours ago
- Bought an @umbra_ltd Conceal floating shelf & intend to put Eng. language reference books on it, near my PC. Simpler than Google 4 writing. 19 hours ago
- Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. (Alain Finkielkraut) 2 days ago
- Music really is amazing. No matter how deeply you steep yourself in it, or for how long--there's always a fantastic new artist to discover. 2 days ago
- More world's worst brands: http://t.co/FEgngM6s 2 days ago
- How to accommodate low literacy readers in your web writing. http://t.co/2s1dKV52 3 days ago
- @dybskiy So what — are you staying? 3 days ago
- @joniv Absolutely. No issues. We're having the easiest winter in the history of winters this year... can't complain really :) 4 days ago
- @joniv Great - now I have that song in my head! Hope you're well :) 5 days ago
- It's 5:30pm, and - strangely - things are finally starting to flow (where I've been beating my head against a wall for most of the day). 6 days ago

