This blog is intented to share tips, tricks and ideas about using CDE Software products as well as some other thoughts about the sport of bowling and computer technology.
28th
May
2007
Microsoft Office, face it, is one of the top tools needed for most day to day business when using the computer. While Office provides a great set of tools (depending on the particular edition of Office you purchase), what if your pocketbook has some other plans?
Sun Microsystems, who is the main company behind the Java computer language, has backed a product called Open Office, which is… FREE. It is very robust and continues to get code contributions from Sun and others.
Visit OpenOffice.org and download the software.
posted in Tips |
28th
May
2007
While I’m not an avid sports nut, I do enjoy watching pro football or baseball on television. They’re good sports and ESPN does a nice job with coverage. Once in a while, I enjoy watching some of the more lower profile sports as well, which, unfortunately, bowling has become.
I’m like many who miss the old days of turning on ABC in the afternoon to watch greats, such as Earl Anthony to Wayne Webb. I remember watching the astonishing match, to which forever created the monicker “the Ballard board”.
One of the things I’ve been noticing, when flipping channels and checking out ESPN or ESPN2 is the amount of attention and coverage to this big sport….. Poker??? I even noticed that ESPN dedicates a category link to the “sport” of poker as well in the “other sports” category.
I can appreciate a good game of cards. I can recognize the skill in bluffing and the mastery of knowing when and how to use it. I can pretty much apreciate everything it has…. except the fact of it being called a sport. Theres a good article on USA Today that discusses this. Read it and see what you think. If poker is a sport and brings that much attenction to ESPN, why not Go Fish?
Well. What’s my beef? Well… considering that bowling is the sport that is what ESPN is supporting through its being the home of televised bowling, where is the category link to bowling? I certainly do not expect it to be front page category, but certainly it merits listing as a category, don’t you think?
While your at it, what about curling?
posted in Bowling |
