Category: Random Musings

  • Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Office has long been the de-facto program for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation creation. That standard comes with a price. Even with educational discounts, MS Office can be a costly program to license, upgrade and maintain. Over the past few years, independent open-source software developers have created several free alternatives to Word, Excel and…

  • 4000 Pounds

    James, Shawn and I spent the morning transferring approximately 4000 pounds of obsolete and dead computer equipment from a storage area under the high school gym into a large box truck provided by EZ PC Recycling. As you might have thought, the process wasn’t much fun. We had to lift all sorts of heavy PC…