Since I don't like Microsoft, and I don't want to pay stupid sums of money for Office, I downloaded OpenOffice, free of charge, from their webite and have been running it for about six months. I'm happy to report it doesn't suck. It's actually pretty good, especially considering how much I paid for it. No, it's not a flashy as Office 2007, or even Office 2003, but it gets the job done. Its version of Excel handles formulas just the same as Microsoft's version, and the documents are all cross-compatible. Just be sure you save your "Word" doc as .doc so Microsoft can open it on someone else's computer.
In other news, I'm buying a plane ticket to NYC to my friend over the July 4th weekend. I'm psyched. I'm also pondering a trip to London or Israel, depending entirely on scheduling and flight prices. What was once an $1100 ticket to Israel is now $1700. Bummer. Even England is over a grand now. I remember when flights to London could be had for under $500, and I'm not talking about the "Go to London for Three Days, Starting Tomorrow" deals.
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I know! Stupid rising fuel costs. Grrr! I've been looking for flights to Amsterdam in Sept and I'm so annoyed that they're all $1000. That seems so wrong to me, like I'm traveling during the peak tourist season or something. I might be able to deal, except most of the US carriers have cut out the free booze on int'l flights. That's just wrong.
Posted by heather | March 21, 2008 7:55 PM
Posted on March 21, 2008 19:55
Aawww... I feel for you guys. I can't remember the US dollar ever being as low as it is now... I have a sudden urge to fly to Houston just to go shopping!!!
Posted by Lisa | March 23, 2008 6:56 PM
Posted on March 23, 2008 18:56