Archive for May 28th, 2006

I’ve been playing with Office 2007 (free download until February 2007) and it’s really good. The new ribbons make things more intuitive… It’s just a shame that the new design is only present in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and the e-mail window of Outlook.

The ribbon and live preview works so much more effectively than the standard File, Edit etc. menus that it feels awkward returning to the old design in Publisher, Visio, SharePoint Designer (previously FrontPage) and Outlook.

Give it a go, it’s interesting to see how user-interfaces will improve in the future and it works on my PC on which I still have Office 2003.

Now I’m off to install Office OneNote 2007 to see what that’s like and whether I should add it to my Samsung Q1 when it arrives next week.


According to Iain Dale:

“…there are more DEFRA civil servants… than there are farms in the country.”

This is the sort of statistic we should be shouting from the rooftops.


John Prescott is the most apalling man. I just cannot get my head around how obscenely stupid he is. Do we really want our money spent for us?

So, you may ask, what specifically has brought on this expression of the obvious truth? The answer is this Posted In: Political, Blog, News and Politics, Socialist, Labour, Environment