Tag: office
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WordArt is still supported... in Microsoft Outlook!
25 years ago, WordArt was everywhere. Nowadays, it's been quietly expunged from Microsoft Office. Except... Outlook, via a series of complicated hacks, can still render WordArt to this day! And I'm pretty curious exactly how it does so...
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I guess it's sweet that the dog has decided that I'm not to leave my home office without her noticing.
But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she's going to get her paws run over!
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A fawn-coloured French Bulldog lies on a laminate floor against the feet of an office chair.
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Man, I have missed having a battlestation to work at these last few months. It's nice to sit at one again, even if it's only a 'chicory battlestation'.
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Two laptops sit nestled between two large monitors, with a desktop computer on the floor below and a teleprompter/webcam on an arm above, in a brightly-sunlit garden office.
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My "commute" since moving to the Chicory House isn't much longer than it is at our regular home, but it does involve going outside. Want to see?
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Chicory, Coffee, and Code
Now that we've finished our move into the Chicory House, I have for the first time in over two months been able to set up my preferred coding environment... with a proper monitor on a proper desk with a proper office chair. Bliss!
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I've lived in a LOT of different places these last few months while we've been arranging a place to live for the next six months or so of our house repairs. Each new AirBnB has had its pros and cons (and each hasn't felt like "home").
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Two laptops on a glass desk in an attractive garden office/summer house, bathed in bright afternoon sunshine.
But man, I really like the "garden office" at our current one. So nice to work in the sun!
(I don't like the slow WiFi as much, but yeah... pros and cons!)
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SmartRacer
Yesterday lunchtime I finished writing a program that suddenly makes our working day that little bit more exciting - SmartRacer.
SmartRacer runs quietly in the system tray of as many users want to run it - currently Matt, Haagen, Gareth and me... but I'm trying to get Alex involved, too.
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Butterfingers
Butterfingers gave me a courtesy call at work this morning to tell me that my juggling gear will be delivered tomorrow. Which is nice.
It's a stupidly hot day. The office needs desk fans. I'm melting here. I've been to the kitchen three times so far just to soak my head/hair from the tap to keep …