I have 5 essays due in today. I’ve come to the library to make final editing passes and get them printed. Remembered to save documents as .doc so that crippled Office 2007 can open them. Office 2007 fails to correctly render many special characters anyway(I’m learning Hebrew, proper transliteration is essential in my essays). Google Docs fails to preserve any formatting. Currently waiting for OpenOffice to install on my USB stick so I can actually get on with some work, an hour after I arrived! Once essays and exams are out of the way, I’m petitioning the University to install OpenOffice.org on their systems.

Next time, I’ll make sure I have live system on my USB stick – OK for me but what about less technical people who don’t want or can’t pay for a Microsoft Office 2007 license. Not acceptable.