And the Worse than Microsoft award for this week goes to
April 29th, 2005 by Reinder... OpenOffice.org's presentation software, for turning an unfinished but functional presentation into a mess of broken images. And this two days before I'm due to talk at Clickburg. Because making the presentation was torture in the first place, I am disinclined to do the work again. After all, the software might destroy my work again once I close it. I don't like working with Microsoft products, and Powerpoint gets quite a bit of flak, but I do remember from my days working a Respectable Day Job (crosses self in the hope of never going back to those days) that it was easy to learn and use and actually saved what you made. This open-source knockoff doesn't even get those basic requirements right. Oh well, at least the word processor is good enough. I use the word processor a lot and the presentation software basically never.
The one good thing about this situation is that I get to post the Zdenek Burian illustrations I was going to use. Burian's images of prehistoric life forms are a bit dated now, but they captivated me as a child, and I still like them a lot.
Yes, I was going to talk about the prehistory and evolution of webcomics. How did you guess? It would have been corny, but in a good way. And I think I'd have been able to restrain myself from making cracks about today's comics fans when that last picture came on screen.
