October 4, 2005 Archives
Google and Sun double-team Microsoft.
It's twofold. I've been feeling bad about pirating MS Office or anything for that matter (everything on this computer is free, besides what runs it :P). And I am a MS-Hater. So... The new OpenOffice 2 will be out in a matter of weeks, if not days, as it's at its "release candidate" stage. I'm not sure if it's superior or inferior to MS Office, but so far it has done perfectly what I wanted it to do (produce a ~100 pages book-like document) with a minimal amount of adaptation (more from writing in text-only to formatted text). It's free, and much prettier than OpenOffice 1.1. It's the shizzah. Go download! GO!
After exhausting jpop, indiepop, québécois pop, frenchpop, I've reverted to teary sappy Cantopop?! (I need new music)
[music: Fiona Sit - A boy like you]
Let's see... The Japanese yen is almost 1-to-1 with the Canadian dollar/cent?! o_O (a dollar is now worth 97¥, compared with 85-ish ¥ when I traded my dollars to go to Japan in March - and compared with the 75¥ I was getting in July 2002) You know where I'm planning my vacation... Hokkaido, that's right... ... But indeed I wanted to do Tokyo, b/c so many things missed - and perhaps some China on my own, versus the stupid organized tours from HK - Shanghai, or even Beijing, but most importantly the back-country: Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang... In my dreams.
And it's called L'Été des Indiens (Or Été Indien - Indian Summer). XD It's a climatic phenomenon affecting Northeastern North America every year except for once every four-five years or so, whereas, at varying intensity, after weeks of constant cooling off during September (not really this year), a sudden streak of hot days swings along so that one can mend broken hearts with beloved summer before it departs for good, FOREVER (until May, and June on some sucky years). Might be 26ºC tomorrow, and forecast to be 23ºC and then 26ºC again on the following days, but it's going DOWN to 14ºC on Friday and we're dying at 2ºC on Sunday. T_T
Pictures, while it lasts (requires Flickr registration for some pics). (First it was me hanging out by myself, downtown and McGill campus. Meeting S on St-Laurent at 5:30, then E at Metro Sherbrooke at 6:30, and T at 7. We had some Chinese Eatery food in Chinatown, and moved on for random fun at the Palais des Congrès, of all places, that esthetically drool-inducing retro-futuristic monster they built within these past five years. Finished it off at that fire-blowing water fountain / art object designed by Québec artist JP Riopelle).