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Weird pasting behavior from Open Office

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Funny stuff.  The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press.  And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the "Paste from Word" button in Word Press. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????•?????????????‰????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????›?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????> Update: The Asian characters ...

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Open Office Forbidden Error

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I'm trying to download Open Office 3.0, now native for Mac, this morning, and when I finally get the site to come up, I get the above error that reads: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server. Anything the reads "Content Helm Noodle" is worth blogging.

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Chromium for Mac is here but is very unstable

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chromium   Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers. I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...

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