We use a fairly complicated spreadsheet full of formulas and pretty colors in my house to keep track of bills. This is shared on the network, but as it lives on my computer it is not available when my pc is off (alas, I have not got around to creating a fileserver yet). It occurred to me to me tonight, as I was filling in this month’s values, to try Google Docs & Spreadsheets and see if it might work for what I do. Incidentally, at first I couldn’t remember what it was called, so I googled “Google Office.” Any guesses what the first result for that query was? Anyway, so I click “upload,” upload my spreadsheet, click “share,” start typing the addresses of my housemates and they are completed from my gmail address book.

In short: yeah, so it’s over, and Google won. The end. Productivity applications are now commodity software, and Microsoft is so fucked.

• indexed: Albus Severus, I hope you turn to the dark side.: Yes.
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Two weeks, 5000 items in the feed reader, 9 calls to comcast tech support. North Charleston, SC does not have internet cafes. I feel almost like I’ve been on vacation in a foreign country where no one speaks the same language as me and all of the TV news is about crazy stuff you can’t imagine anyone caring about.

Actually, it was exactly like that.

It’s good to be home.