New Reader

Once these readers are cheap, I can see them littering my desk as multiple windows on so many documents. Exciting! watch
Epaper is still moving on, but the pace is strangely slow: watch

Movie - De Père en Flic (2009) VOF

I enjoyed this movie, it had many opportunities to go off but stayed on track and interesting to the end. I liked the emotional tug-of-war between fathers and sons. Go see this movie. Site: DE PÈRE EN FLIC Trailer: Bande-annonce IDBM: De père en flic (2009)

Browsers: The New OS? Eventually it seems.

I've noticed a growing number of operating systems available for anyone downloading an application; particularly in the mobile computers and cell phones. This means the OS is becoming more hardware specific and a new layer is forming above the OS. This layer seems to be the browser (see Firefox plans, Google OS for 2010, etc.).

List of operating systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The OS isn’t going away anytime soon, but its role is being nibbled at slowly but surely. I’m sure that Microsoft, Apple and the folks behind the various flavors of Linux would beg to differ. But the writing is on the wall: While people are focused on winners and losers in the OS wars the reality may be that they all lose.

source: The end run around the OS is underway

Movie - Yes Man (2008)

We rented this title without enthousiasm but found a small gem with a fun, uplifting message. Zooey Deschanel is perfect in her role as Alison. As expected, Jim Carrey lets loose in all directions from the un-motivated to super-motivated. He is good at being goofy and his outbursts usually fit the storyline, but some scenes just feel contrived, as if added in to include his signature pratfalls and contortions. Regardless, just go see it and let the power of YES wash over you.
imdb.com

Restaurant - Bayon

Perfect Vietnamese food, delicious, bring your own wine. A little cramped.
I had the "kchoeu" plate of vegetables with spicy lemon and peanut sauce.
Ginette and Catherine had the Banh Bung. Perfectly delicious and the view of Rosemère Golf Club at sunset was a show stopper.
Restaurant Bayon Enr, (450) 971-1243
281 Boul Labelle, Rosemere, Quebec
Restaurant-Bayon-enr.

A day at the beach

So, it feels like 26 degrees; that's Canadian for: We are having a terrible, cold, wet summer, but we can pretend it's hot with humidex numbers on some days.
Anyways, we pack ourselves into the wonderfully hot sunbaked car and end up at Oka National Park Beach . It's great! I had not been to a Canadian beach in years, it sort of looks like the Caribean except it was packed with people.
Leaving Ginette and Catherine to the picnic table. I walk eastward and find a smaller beach with a campground feel to it, perfect for cooking, with ash pits, toilets and running water near the beach. Then, further on, past a small grassy point, I stop in front of a warning that "public nudity for no reason may be unlawful". I guess that is their way of showing they are "nudist friendly". Anyway, it's a nice little beach, with about 30 patrons scattered about reading, chatting and sunbathing. The water is refreshing since I ran part of the way down the coast as part of my "push the cardio" day.
We are snacking and relaxing all afternoon commenting of all the people we see. There are some very good looking people out there. After a snooze we make our way back to the city by the old road; not a very exiting route. Time for food.
Park Details in French Bike paths: Laval-Oka Montreal-Oka Oka search

A few hours of light work interrupt my day.

Regularly waking up at 5:30 AM means I'm doing stuff for hours before I go to work, and so work feels like a much smaller part of my life; this is a good thing for me.

Running log - two 10 minute miles back to back.

Yay! My first ever 2 miles in 20 minutes! This is only day 12 of my couch to 5k plan; it actually works.

Free Substitute for MS Access called BASE

OpenOffice.org download BASE is similar enough to Access to be used by a beginner to review and practice at home. Of course students can purchase the entire Office Suite for $64. Microsoft Office 2007 promotion for students

Access Basics

Demo: Up to speed with Access 2007 - Access - Microsoft Office Online

Introduction to the Access 2007 file format - Access - Microsoft Office Online

Microsoft Office Access 2007 Lessons - FunctionX

French:

FORMATION RAPIDE ACCESS

Cours Access

The Google Operating System!

The operating system - a lightweight open source system that will run on both x86 as well ARM chips - is deigned to start up and have the user on the Web within seconds, as opposed to the long startup time on Windows. In addition, the company said that it’s “going back to basics” - just as it did with the Chrome browser - to redesign the underlying security architecture “so that users don’t have to worry about viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.”

For developers, the platform is the Web....
Google goes after Windows with launch of Chrome OS Thanks Nicolas

News that caught my attention

1. Google to enter the phone business? Google Voice Summary
   It appears that Google has reserved a million phone numbers from Level 3 for use with Google Voice. This is a very good indication that the company will be opening up its doors for business in the near future. Google prepares to open up Google Voice Google Voice : Coming soon - Google Voice Help
2. Clean your keyboards: In one case a microbiologist suggested the removal of a keyboard as it had 150 times the recommended limit of bacteria — five times filthier than a toilet seat that was swabbed in the same test. Dirty little secrets of the keyboard revealed
3. Boarding passes on your phone screen: The future of... Boarding passes Video
4. Storage milestone: Unprecedented high performance 160,000 IOPS & 500MB/sec and low power <4>Outrageously cool new hard drive has one head per sector!
5. Battery Technology the nano-magnets A new spin on battery technology
6. Plasma Light Bulb The lightbulb of the future? Video
7. Are we witnessing the end of Free Websites? Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely' Will Become a 'Paid System'. Time Projection: Within 5 Years
8. Linux Microsoft Debate 10 reasons why Linux will triumph over Windows
   Freedom of financial gain. Freedom from cost-prohibitive licenses. Freedom to alter source. Freedom from monopolistic practices. Celebrating freedom with open source
9. Cloud Computing
   Will economic downturn push companies into the cloud? Video
   Microsoft Cloud Future is Cloudy? Too many .Nets, too little time?
10. TV Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV Video
11. 3G Iphone / Android
    Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012
    Voice GPS sells for $.99 but requires an in-app purchase of $9.99 per month to get voice-guided navigation. First voice-guided GPS apps arrive for iPhone
    iPhone OS 3.0: Leaf Trombone Video
    iPhone OS 3.0: Peer-to-peer networking Video
    iPhone OS 3.0: Copy and paste Video
    iPhone OS 3.0: Push notification Video
12. Password Debate Masking passwords: Why it's not a good idea
13. A Generation Gap 2.0 Deja vu all over again: managing across Generation Gap 2.0 - SmartPlane
14. Inspiration to get moving: Bumbling to Greatness - SmartPlanet
15. HealthVault clobbering Google in Personal Health Records race

File formats that are not supported in Excel 2007

The following file formats are no longer supported in Office Excel 2007. You cannot open or save files in these file formats.
Format
Extension
Clipboard type identifiers
Excel Chart
.xlc
Excel 2.0, 3.0, and 2.x file formats
WK1, FMT, WK2, WK3, FM3, WK4
.wk1, .wk2, .wk3, .wk4, .wks
Lotus 1-2-3 file formats (all versions)
Microsoft Works
.wks
Microsoft Works file format (all versions)
DBF 2
.dbf
DBASE II file format
WQ1
.wq1
Quattro Pro for MS-DOS file format
WB1, WB3
.wb1, .wb3
Quattro Pro 5.0 and 7.0 for Windows.
Tips for file formats that are not supported by Excel
If a file format that you want to use is not supported in Excel, you can try the following:
Search the World Wide Web (WWW) for a company that makes file format converters for file formats that are not supported in Excel.
Save to a file format that another program supports. For example, you may want to import your spreadsheet into another program that does not support the Excel file format. But the other program may be able to import another supported file format, such as an XML spreadsheet or a text file format. In this case, you can save your workbook to the XML spreadsheet format, and then from the other program, import the XML file.