The plain dog went down the lazy river full of skunks because he was stupid.....  Well it beats the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog for story content. I mean what sort of a plot is this lazy dog jumping anyways. I can see maybe the fox jumping over the lazy dog who was murdered by the quicker tall dark fellow in the cold damp alley. Now that would be worth typing, although difficult to believe, still murder is always good in a book...

Anyway I must have typed that quick brown fox line a million times in school, and it never increased my speed one bit. However years of typing novels had done wonders for my base speed. I can now type along with the best of them although sometimes it scares people in chat rooms. They are not used to instant responses and I have been accused of being a computer program from time to time. Perhaps I am part computer, if so then I may need an update. Also I hope I don't start randomly shutting down as some of my old computers have done in the past.

What I am really doing in this post is testing the new Apache Open Office writer program out. For those of you who do not know this is an open source office program set. They have all of the standard office programs plus a database program available, the software reads and writes office files and the price is rather cheap when compared to MS Office's price of 299.99 to 499.99, depending upon how honest you are, anyway how does FREE sound for a good deal.

So far I have installed it on my new pc and it is running perfectly well, the dictionary in English works great as do all of the features. The help section is a massive online tome of knowledge from all of the beta testers and is well worth browsing through for information on the programs. So far I am rather pleased, but if I come upon anything not working properly I will let you know. I do wish that the writing program had the word count on the bottom but I can live without it.  

So if you are interested just pop into Google and enter Apache Open Office and you will be magically transported to a land of office programs that will make you happy. Also the programs are available in a number of languages, so most are covered.  Anyways that is all have a great day!!


Allan