OpenOffice.Org

I just managed to download OpenOffice.org on my Vista.....just because I so badly needed a word processing program. And it is not bad. Though I do not know about porting it to Word. I may not need that though....I just converted these pages right into .pdf and .html. And I tried Comic Sans MS (since most non-Macs do not have Lucia Grande....a notable exception being blogger....though I do not know why it has such limited fonts while publishing the blog!!) along with the shadow effect, and though the shadow does not make much of an effect on the pdf, I can now make a decent web page for documentations without having to learn html programming....I think it should make a web page real soon.
In other news, I found enough resources to work on my term paper. My topic will be on self organization of economic systems. I think Schumpeter came out with ideas on evolutionary economics and they are trying to come out with some methodologies for it.....I think!!
Can not wait to get onto Linux....I think there can be very many things to try out there!!
Also, I need to learn some kind of a scripting language like Perl or Python. And on hwo to interface it with the web page. That is, how to use a program to go visit a web page, manipulate the information on it (on your own computer!!) and get data sets out of it. Though this may not be helpful all the time, this along with a scripting language could be powerful.
Here is a small project that might be worth trying:
Build a web crawler to find out the number of web pages containing certain keywords and then run a clustering algorithm on them. I think the field of information retrieval is quite cool! It is just that working with so much data makes the results that come out seem so much better and cooler!! Of course, when things don't work, then making them work also takes a lot more effort.
I think the other day, Google returned one of the blogs I had made private in their search. This angered me quite a lot. When I make a blog private, it should not be visible to the outside world!! There is a reason I am making it private! Another thing about Google that pissed me off was their lack of support to enable a 2 way syncing with the Google calendar. I need some place to store my online journal where it won't turn up on Google searches.....and hope Google does a Google-worthy thing with the calendar. I would really love to use it!! This is another place where learning to manipulate web data using scripts may help!! Go Python....go perl!!
The next 3 weeks are going to be hard....I do not know how I am going to manage....and yet I try to find time to blog!! Either I must be getting really stupid, or it must be the guys at Microsoft, because I could have sworn I was not able to find out how to open a file in the new Windows Media Player.
Things to do before I can breathe again:
1. Finish term paper for CSCS (and return the library book before you have to sell your soul for the fine!!)
2. Clean up concepts on probability.....this includes random processes, more problems on random processes and even more on random processes!!!!!
3. Finish writing the test cases for the smart motor and find out other crappy errors which could never occur.

Tomorrow, I think I will read through the manual and find out all the things which can stop the motor. Then I will need to make the if conditions. I will also need to make the module which reads from the CAN bus. Will have to ask Mike about the module and structure of the message. I think this project gave me a good exposure to a fairly medium size project spread over many files. Now I can try to make the communication code with Domitilla a little better.....more spread out and modular.....will be fun to build the structure of the code. Also, I get a strong feeling it will help understand other open source projects.

It has been 2 hours....its almost 1 in the morning....and I'm still blogging!! Man I waste time!!!
Off I am now....to try study....hopefully!!!